Saracen Market Strategy Tip and it's legendary creator Doug Thompson

Recently, in another post I linked an old forumfrom 2001 about Doug Thompson, who, from what I can tell is essentially the originator of the Saracen market strategy or whatever it's best called. It's a very interesting read for anyone who's interested in some old AoK players discussing strategy.

One thing I noticed in this threadthough, that I don't know if anybody has tried is that he suggests that you can also cost efficiently buy 400 wood in addition to the 1500 food that people normally buy in this strategy. This I think is significant, as he elaborates in the thread, because it not only increases efficiency even further but also helps let you make the additional mining camp for gold and, even more significantly, make the transition into farming, which I think is the hardest part of the strategy. Often, I think players such as myself hold off on transitioning to farming too late (I even saw Viper do this in Gold Rush), causing food problems later in the game. I think it also even helps with Saracen market booming which goal is to try to get to Castle as quickly as possible to build TC's sooner as well as save a bunch of wood from not having to build farms until you get Horse Collar or maybe even Heavy Plow.

I'm not a mathy person or a great player though, so I can't really verify his claims, but I have no reason to doubt him as he's the one who came up with the idea in the first place. What do you guys think?