The Market

In deathmatch the market is not only useful for team games. It can also help you on a 1 Vs 1.

On the team games the production of Trade carts supplies you with gold. Be sure that the 100 Golds you give to make them will be soon back, but try to protect the track your carts use. Your market should not be close to the one your partner has. In fact, the longer the distance of the market the more gold you will get per cart. One way to do that is to build markets in the corners of the map and the protect your carts by building a Wall, not to far from the end of the map.

On 1 Vs 1 games the market has a completely different use. It is really hard to Trade with your opponent (I don't think you would like to try that), so the only use of it is to buy or sell your resources. You will find plenty of wood in all the maps, and food is also not hard to get (Farms). The problem is your Gold and Stone. When the opponents are both good the game is won by the one who has better economy. To do so you must be the one to take advantage of the neutral gold resources and it is good if you also capture Relics. But in the beginning of the game, whet both you and your opponent have gold it is very important to "take the market gold". This expression is used to say that you sell your wood when it's price is still high. This will give you about 3500 gold at the start of the game.