wow, can't believe i haven't posted in this spoiler in so long
Romeo and I are cruising along
me ->
him -> [insert bowman smilie here]
ok, we pretty much expanded peacefully, unaware of the other till 1575BC.
Turn 50
94.97*KB
We meet in 1575BC. I rename the warrior on the hill "Harry" and the other one to his SW "Gimp"
84.64*KB
at this point, i wasn't interested at all in picking a fight. i knew my research was ahead of his and I was hoping to delay my GA till i had gotten Monarchy. I also thought that he wasn't ready for his, so I threatened to attack his bowman if he came any closer. I think I actually asked for a tech as compensation
. Well, he did steer clear of Harry, but Gimp was able to stay up with another bowman that entered the area a little later. I think I finally pissed him off and he decided to do it, however, i did give him one last chance to turn around. instead, he attacked
104.37*KB
now it's 925BC, and I did have a 1/2 despotic GA and a 1/2 Monarchy GA. He did surge forward and dislodge Harry from the hill on turn 68 or so, but he managed to take 1 bowman and severly damage another, which forced Romeo to retreat as he didn't have enough troops to make a real push.
112.08*KB
by 950bc or so, I used a fiegn to the right with 4 WC's to draw about 7 bowman over to the NE, then ran around the left with about 8 or 9. They were not able to do much damage and are now a little spent, but I have changed his focus from surging forward to protection, allowing me to walk 4 swords up along the hills.
99.27*KB
and i have a little suprise coming in thru the backdoor
61.92*KB
also, on this turn, I finished the Colossus (hand built) while Romeo rushed the ToA with an SGL (we banned rushing the Pyramids with SGL's, along with some other wonders).
Right now, I'm researching CoL which is a mistake, it should have been MM so I could launch galleys at him. My guess is that was the tech he got his SGL with, so now I have to watch out for them.