Yes. But only because I had a killer spot. Pit first by 3 shore fish 2 eles and a forest!!! And double berries! And a wondefully wallable spot!! And wood within 3 tiles of my tc on both sides!! Wish I'd gotten a picture Anyways, I was playing against APC_Ruvim and APC_Doom. As I said my spot kicked major butt so I decided to go with a true axer rush (as opposed to the type that I do when I boom) 17 vills (mostly cuz I queued one more than I meant to) and found Ruvim next to me. I hit tool about 8:00 (ok I'm not a great rusher...) and realized I had forgot to queue clubbers at my 2 barracks.... so I quickly queued a couple while getting the attack upgrade at my lone pit. As they arrived I queued up a 3rd and started the axer upgrade and soon after that started the armor upgrade. I sent the 2 clubbers down into Ruvim's wood (which I had located) and they turned into axers as Ruvim tried to bone them to death. The axers kept coming though taking 3-4 vills with each death. Finally he ran his remanining vills away (I'm not sure how many he had left) and so I beat his tc to the ground with my remaining 8 axers and started fixing my villager count (ie pumping vills instead of axers). Then I beat his housing to the ground. Then I left 1 axer on each building and sent the remaining over to where I'd located Doom at with my scout. About this time my first dock went up and fb's came out (again fixing my villager count). Soon after that a second dock went up. After booming my fb's some, I built a scout ship to make sure that Ruvim didn't have any fishing that I had missed. Doom had built a large defense force of axers though... which quickly finished mine off. My scout ship found Doom's dock and started picking off fb's until Doom built a scout of his own at which time I built another scout ship at one of my docks to go kill his scout which was going to kill my scout. After this my market went up (2nd tool building at 22 minutes hehehe). And then I got my 800 food and bronzed with about 22 vills and 12 fb's at about 23 minutes. As I was bronzing all my real vills were on wood so I was building fishing like mad, built houses, and I had to break my wall at one point to let out some vills to get at gold (I had walled out my gold) but didn't have the stone to repair the wall so I blocked the holes with houses (I sent a couple vills to the gold mine on the other side too) My second scout ship didn't meet much resistance as I hit bronze. First thing wheel, next gov't center. Up went a tc next to both gold spots. I put up a 3rd and a 4th dock as a dock block and Ruvim had a scout that hit one of my building vills but didn't chase... instead he headed towards my nicely walled town Finding my town walled he decided to beat on the gold operation (which had about 8 vills by this time) I checked the scout real quick found it was unupgraded so I boned it and built an academy (did I mention I was greek? ) and then went back to work (not sure if it ran away or not but it was gone when I came back from doing other management). So about this time I own approximately 1/2 the map and I'm docking like mad and upgrade to galleys. 3rd tc goes up next to wood and stone. I boom like mad (my fb's are raking in food) and watch as the resources start flowing in nicely. I build a couple of hoppers just in case Doom decides to attack me with the remnants of his axers. I send the hoppers into doom's town as they finish. The first one takes out about 7 axers (I didn't count but there was a horde of them) Is almost dead when the second one arrives in protection. Then a 3rd and they start taking out vills then buildings. My galleys have killed Doom's dock and I have docks built around 3/4 of the sea by this time. As well as 3/4 coverage of the ocean with galleys. Seeing the game is well in hand (I own about 3/4 the map at this point) and I have a nice bronze boom (60ish real vills + 20ish fb's) I go iron with plenty of resources to spare. Arrive in iron with very little changed (I'd decided to sim city and relax for a little while) I control all of the coastline with my ships, haven't docked only a small portion right underneath where Doom is located. About this time I upgrade to phalanxes, and triremes, get some extra range with the last woodcutting upgrade and some extra gold with the gold mining upgrade, build a second gov't center to make my research faster (I had forgotten to research stuff) research aristocracy (expecting to go cents soon) and about this time Doom resigned. I checked my phalanxes and they had destroyed most of his buildings and most of his vills (he had a new base that I found out about after the game ended) I demolished a few more buildings and got Ruvim's last building before I got enough food for cents (I had 1750, needed 1800) This game I did a few things wrong, most of which weren't punished. I also did a few things right. My walling was outstanding, the axer rush was kinda crude (shoulda had some clubbers when I hit tool...) I didn't go hard enough on the sea from the time I made my first dock.... If they had built multiple docks and fought back I would have been in deep trouble because at that point all my food production was on the sea. I didn't fix my vill count fast enough in tool opting for a stronger axer force instead, because I had walled, but if I'd been transported too I probably would have been dead. In all I played a decent game, but nothing spectacular considering how great my start spot was.