general army comp

Hi !

i play a lot with friends and im looking to improve, im lost on unit choices, always we all hit imperial (2v2) they mass trash army ( they dont use too much gold they just make SO and trebuchets) , they lately are copying my main composition for every civ! lot of champions ( to counter trash )+ trash. it works until now because they didnt do anything but trash . This is my main problem because i know infantry suck ( no for goths f.e.) in aoe2 and i want to go pala and archers, its a lot of gold + some champions for trash ( 1. is this fine? ).

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apart of this im working on how to mind the best army comp following the " choose 1 gold unit and mix it with siege and trash to counter his counter" ( 2. is this rule good? better than the knight line + archer line comp? ):

step 1 recognice if my civ is a pala civ, archer civ, infantry civ ( with good pala or archers) this will be the gold unit

step 2 mix it with trash ( so if it is pala there is e. skirms and not archers for the halberdiers)

step 3 add some siege and champions if trash is huge or is a infantry civ ( + UU if its really good)

what method will have more success? i cant complement each other weakness with my ally ( he is bad at this moment, cant rely on him)