Because CDZ deserves to know:
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Action starts on turn 32:
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Someone never played AW, his troops are all scattered. He did pillage me twice but that won't really slow me down as much as not settling and lousy GA will slow him so I'm cool with that. He has 1 stack of 2 units so I plan on attacking it and keeping units within the cities. Reinforcements are underway.
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Turn 33 sees the first MW action of the game, where one jag is balls deep in poop. I have an archer lined up so I play dare and (IIRC) leave a worker undefended while sending units to cover for the spear that went too far and attacked a jag. MW hunting parties are sent left and right to find the survivors of the first attack.
It's a real shame (for him anyways) that he did not consolidate troops outside of my roads' range, take a position where he can attack either of my cities with all his stack, and take one of them. He definitely could have. Instead, he scouted and pillaged 2 tiles. Way to go, GA!
Next interesting stuff happens on turns 36 and 37 where the chessboard play pays out: one of his wounded jags has been hiking, the other has been running. Both are soon going to be missing.
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After that the enkidus show up, with a major new threat: a path through the South for General W (yes, Cubsfan officially bailed out (probably shi†less)).
A new guy shows up North on turn 38 before I can dam
our land-bridge with spears.
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Then I establish our presence with an attack on the enkidu: chances were on my side but really, it was a win-win; I lose: he gets a GA. I sent your warrior as GA fodder that same turn so we're good with Sumeria's GA. He could have a GA almost as productive as yours if he had more pop. Right now we have the best GA (i believe) and mine is yet to come.
I could have pushed it forwards this turn but I'd feel better opening it up so that 1 jag can sneak through only to get eaten by a mountie.
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So there we are: jag on the mountain, landbridge dammed, passage east below the sea and both of them hit their GA's. I produced a settler from your capital once it was certain to grab 10spt after shrink, this way you lost no real productivity. We'll need good coordination if we want to really push the landbridge down to a more manageable 2-tiler where I would lay down a defensive city and you could keep fresh reserve mounties on nearby roads.
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Possible hazard here with the EW but he won't reach your place before you do, or before you have a fresh mountie up and running.
I'm headed towards philo, will then do MM for right of passage agreements. You are running down towards polytheism and a timely monarchy. We're both good to go with gold and neither of us can effectively upgrade anything. I planned on settling 2S of my iron to have a flatland disconnect spot and get really good warrior upgrade profitability.
They will be at the end of their GA's so it might be that they will send the biggest threat right around that time so we'd be wise to consider our timing anarchy very very well. Other than that, we will beat them to a government like they've rarely been beaten before.