Heh, I've learned I need to step up to level 2 units earlier. In the game afterwards, that I had with rky and lewnaja, I got lvl 2 just in time. Actually what caused me to do it was when I noticed rky was attacking me with advanced units, so I did that to fight back. Then I led a bulldog and a few stumpys around a tiny hill and (I think) I suprised rky with the way I came, and I was able to destroy a few more units and then killed his commander. Of course in the last game, he ended up putting up quite a fight even after I destroyed his commander, so I was still worried about him.
Rky then led all his adv units towards my base, and he was making good progress, I thought I was going to lose. Fortunately, I was barely able to beat those units. The advantage here is that I had a very big base, so I probably could have killed a few more units with the various defenses I had throughout it. After that he didn't have anything to seriously oppose me, and lewn was just a newbie at TA, so the game was mine :P