How do you knock out opponents from the game before forty minutes? Arabia 1v1 14-1500s

playing vs 1400s and 1500s, I end up getting a big score lead by a couple thousand points around 30 mins, but it usually takes me at least five minutes in Imperial to make them resign. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong that is letting them survive till I've been in Imperial Age.

Several theories

• Too slow to reach castle. my up time is usually around 20-22 mins
• Poor raiding in castle age - I do mass xbow (cav arch if Huns). I'm rbad at raiding
• not enough army - I tend to lose mangonels to knights
• too slow to get ballistics/archer ring
• too many archery ranges - i like to add a third range in feudal if i open with archers, which means i need more on gold and wood, whch means less on food

basically, my style is to 22 pop archer flush (i think), castle around 20-22 mins, and then the game drags on forever until i reach imp. it feels like i could knock them out ten minutes ago, i just dont know how.

note: my dark age build is 6 on sheep, 4 on wood, then all on food until vil 20,21,22 where I decide what to do (if archers i do 3 on gold and move others to wood, if scouts i might add some on wood and others on farms, if i see rax i might do militia, etc. i haven't determined yet if it's better to do 3 on gold once i click up or start adding goldies from vil 20. also figuring out deer. after second boar seems too late unless I lure