I joined a 2vs2 game, default, inland. I was Hittite, my partner Assy; opponents were Hittite and Sumer (I think). My partner got rushed very early, had all his vills killed and resigned before the 15 min mark. So it was 2 vs 1. I had tool rushed my Sumer opponent with archers and killed quite a few of his peons too so that he had to rebuild.
I decided I would go for a defensive game and see what would happen. I started to build strong defenses, reached Iron and made the occasional sortie with HA just to keep my opponents occupied. I ruled the rivers with galleys and fire galleys (great fun to see catapults going up in flames because they were too careless coming near the shoreline So the game went on for 1:40 h and if the victory setting hadn't been on conquer I would have built a wonder and surely won. So I had to resign because my wife was shouting at me from behind what a funny "quick" game that was on a Sunday afternoon When I resigned my town was packed with towers, cats and HA. which took out everything that came in sight on the outside of my walls. I sure could have held on for another hour or so... Certainly, my opponents weren't very skilled nor determined (although the tool rusher was quite succesful), but still it was a fun game. Teefax