I just played a bit more of this "crazy-rush" mod with my Carthagians. The Romans are done, but the barbarians are giving me a good headache. For every expanding army I expect a full stack every few rounds, and it is very likely to end up with some cross-sword on the ground.

I just captured the Macedon capital and transformed this city into my frontline production center of troop of mass destruction. I just produced golden-dagger 9 slingers right off the archery range because I suffer from a complete lack of missle units. Next I will probably get 8 onagers once the upgrade is complete (in one turn).

Right now everybody is "rushing" - it feels really good because I can't expect what I am going to see tomorrow. I already see tons of stone walls when I quene up "toggle_fow". Greeks and Macedonians already bring up a lot of 3rd level infantry (the principe level, 6000 pop. level). It is only 8 years into the game and I feel AI is more advanced than 20 years. Same things happen to me. I have got a few armored war elephants shipped to the front line. They bashed the rebels so hard. Oh so hard.