That is true about your Bronze time... it would be interesting to see what you could do for the few minutes I wasn't in Bronze with you.
Strats that have been the biggest "miss-strats" against this big boom are ones that fish but then land attack for early Bronze. Typically they will try Cav. I always commit to sea reguardless and use Scout Ships for protection and wall woodies in a forest by the shore if needed. I will build 2-3 ranges in my town in Tool and have 8-12 Bowmen hold me over till Bronze if there is chance of early Bronze units coming. As long as my fishing operation is thriving I do well.
When rushed I guess it all comes down to the boomer being able to survive. Here are a few things I do to live to see Bronze if rushed on land.
1) If I have clubbers come into my woodies before I have Tooled I will immediately have 4 villagers bone each clubber before the clubber gets the armor and axer upgrades. Then I will run the villas to a new pit and start cutting again.
2) If the clubbers turn to axers and there are 4 or more, I will run woodies in several directions to avoid death. My main aim is to have a few be sacrificed--the ones that are being chased, and the others pit and be woodies again A.S.A.P. This will force the opponent to have to make a decision to make a Scout or two, and/or make more axers. Either way this will slow his Bronze time. If opponent stays with just 4-5 axers I will just have some villas run them forever and if he seperates them up I will gang bone him to death.
3) If it looks like he is gonna be big and I am very slow, I run the majority of my villas to one of my docks and house block behind me. Usually that journey takes up enough time that I am close to Tool and have enough wood for a few Scout Ships to protect me.
4) Once in Tool I will make a tower in the path of my woodies, make 2-3 archery ranges near woodies, research archer armor, and make at least 6 bowmen. This investment is a priority over a Navy, however I try to gauge if I can get by with 2 archery ranges and fewer bowmen. As long as my woodies are still chopping uninterupted I feel I am OK. Bowmen is the best Tool defensive unit. They kill axers and scouts. The opponent must either switch to slingers with the market upgrade or wait for Bronze. Either way that buys me the time to get to Bronze. My fishing will provide hitting the Bronze button while fighting this Tool war.
5) If my opponent is rushing to Bronze and doesn't do a Tool army.... all the better. I will have a navy to eliminate their fishing. On land I will increase my Bowmen count. A group of 4-8 Bowmen will keep Cav/Camels out of woodies. If 3-4 CAs come to town I will have 10-12 woodies bone and the Bowmen behind them killing the CA. If the CA shoot the Bowmen, my villas will go unharmed and the rush was a TTL failure. If they shoot the villagers, they will get a few however I will still have a larger amount of woodies than him and my Bowmen will remain there for future attacks. Either way this is enough time wasted to get me to Bronze.
I have been Yam and survived till 25:00 on land with just Scouts and Bowmen in Bronze because my opponent took away my gold mines. That happened last week and I think he was shocked his small Bronze army couldn't do anything about my large Tool army. I just secured the sea, did my compie upgrades, did my gold mining upgrade, build 4 archery ranges and 3 stables, built Gov Center and 2 TCs, and boomed villagers and fishing ships like crazy. My Bowmen killed his repeated Cav attacks and my Scouts killed a couple STs. He was Roman and didn't send any Impies.... he should have because his Cav/ST combo was beat by a bigger Bowmen/Scout combo for 10-12 game minutes. Once I "retook" my gold mines I switched all of my woodies to gold miners. 30+ gold miners and 40+ fishing boats game me endless Compies, Cav, and a faster Iron than him. Once his forward base was gone and he was off sea he resigned. I ended up with 105 villagers and he had less than 40 when it was over.
My point of this babbling is if you are confident and experienced being an Age behind, and you understand what you're strengths/opponent's weaknesses are, you can capitalize and win most of the time. The rusher is always fighting time and opponent, while boomer has time on his side.
Can you survive the Blitzkrieg?