How to deal with someone who puts up walls asap and then just uses archers?

So as the title says.

After my last post I started watching BoIT and reading Thor BOs. I've gotten to the point where I can get to Classical by 4.5/5 minutes and then Heroic by about 10/11 minutes.

However my same friend has started, well always done it, as soon as he can he has walls up and will pelt my army with his archers from behind them.

Now the issue I'm having is usually I can get about 3-6 RC headed to his base by the start of the Classical era, but he's already gotten his walls going by that point.

So now I'm left in a situation where once my initial raid failed/slowed him down he's gotten portions of his base where I didn't raid walled in and ranged units going. So now I'm forced, as Thor, to Power level into Heroic/Mythic just to get siege/myth weapons and he then starts using his mass ranged units to turtle crawl. I switch to mass Huskals/RC and then he'll start to either use his chariots, if Egyptian to fire and dart away leaving him to pick off my RC/Huskarls or he'll make me come to him where he'll use the AIs/Wall pathing to his advantage and attack my units with his, but due to how gates work he can attack my units but my units will just attack the gate.

Is there any way to combat this as a Thor player?