Copied from part of my response (post 7) in the other thread about chaos vs order;
On short maps, saddly chaos has to expect to lose against sword rush.
But, what you should try do is focus on keeping what ever (of yours) he is attacking alive. Use one or two miners to fight early on along side crawlers, but always keep some of them mining so you have income, and keep spaming crawlers until you can build up enough surviving crawlers to make a counter attack. I have a replay of me doing exactly that.
http://www.stickempires.com/play?rep...9&version=1.59
(this is not the shortest 2 maps, where its very very hard to do, as his swords dont take as long to cross the map)