German eco in Supremacy: help

I just can't stop ending dragging my team down then losing the whole battle because I always run out of food and coin for military units, and I know Germany is supposed to have one of the strongest ecos in the game. I usually run out of mines then don't have enough wood to make enough plantations in time to keep up with the coin production needs, and I tend to run out of food trying to make both military and keep vills coming. I find it incredibly hard to balance all 3 resources to keep vills spawning, coin-heavy military growing, enough wood for buildings and upgrades, and age ups. This is the only civ I have this problem with. Often I exhaust all the wood by my base then can't go forward on the map because enemy cav swoops in and destroys all my vills on wood. Do I need to just devote far more vills to wood than I have been? And what can I do to control the areas closer to the enemy with wood to gather?