Fast? Me? lol... I bronzed in about 17:30... After rushing borgboy in tool... for some reason he decided that chasing my scout with like 25 vills was a good idea... so I ran it around and wasted some of his gathering time... The one thing that I can add to that is.. build more docks and take the sea... I had 3 docks before I tooled... (explains my slow time) and Sting and I had very little trouble taking the sea... And once you have the sea you're free to build hordes of fishing boats... which is easy and a very little management required method of getting lots of food... I guess the tips I can give are:
1. attack... defending inevitably loses unless you can defend long enough to wonder. Even if you're defending on one side you need to attack on the other... if your opponent is attacking you, defend while attacking him in return... better to fight on the opponent's land than on your own
2. build villagers like mad
3. take the sea and fish like mad
4. expand... own the map... build tc's everywhere
I think the funniest point in the game (from my point of view) was when Sting asked "What's the pop limit?" and I said "I don't know" and about 10 minutes later "Pop limit is 150" "I know I hit it a couple minutes ago" hehehe... That and the stone age cat destroying buildings... hehehe