When I wrote this I was close to being a beginner. I was always with no more than 12 units, trying to gather resources to go to level 2 with technology, to be more powerful. But the AI would attack with numbers of 20 to 30 units, giving me close to no chance in winning, and a loss would be the outcome. Since that I tried different maps, to see if I can find at least one map I can win on. After a while I came to Belgian Bog for 2 players, while playing I noticed the AI were not attacking me, which puzzled me. On the end I reached tech 3, and was building up, took time because I still didn't know all the structures, and which would give me, what tech.... I finally came to the structure that would give me rams, which I needed, since the AI had concrete walls around them with towers, while I got only an empty block of land. On the end I won, the game took somewhere between 1 to 2 hours, the AI had lots of workers, and would rebuild at another part of the map, finding where and killing all the workers took time. Never tried sandbox level, since I was not sure how that level played.