Team meta on low gold maps?

I play a bit of 2v2 Megarandom with my wife. Last night we got a nomad start on a map sort of like acropolis but which had scarce resources, every gold had just 2 tiles. Didn't think much of it or scout that well, I planned on archers into Xbows, she planned on scouts into knights, like almost every other 2v2. Enemies went spears and skirm in feudal, I got totally mopped up by skirms at their base and mine, ended up in castle age with no gold, no map presence, desperately trying to mine a second gold to afford the xbow upgrade, but by the time I got it I had 3 archers and they camped skirms outside my ranges.

So... Obviously that was a bad strategy. In retrospect my guess is that I should have started mixing in skirmishers way earlier, maybe even gone like 80% skirmishers?

But in general, on maps like that with low gold and stone before trade, how do feudal and castle age typically go? What's the best 2v2 composition to start taking control of the scarce golds and trade routes?