Sure, why not whip a settler and try to grab the Iron. I think we'd want to settle right next to it to keep it from Pericles. It wouldn't be much of a city besides the resource, but still worth having. If we miss that city, the spot northwest of our capital has the electrolytes that plants need.
That city still comes short of the pure awesomeness of being a MONSTER TRUCK you can POUR INTO YOUR FACE!
Okay, enough with the Brawndo already.
Played 10 turns. At the beginning of my turnset, we noticed that Izzy was now able to change to Slavery, which would likely happen the next turn. And when the AI is faced with trouble like this, it's likely that Archers would come rolling out every turn soon, and we wouldn't want that to happen, right?
1400 BC:
That means we're attacking now, of course.
The chariot is taken down at 75% odds.
IBT: Izzy adopts Slavery and whips... a Chariot. Congratulations darling, you just won the Darwin Award.
1360 BC:
Meditation is in.
Barcelona comes out of revolt and immediately would lose pop because I moved the jags to Madrid to take out Izzy ASAP. We whip a jaguar for 2 population at Barcelona; every jag is one more at the front. Meanwhile, I note that Madrid has only 2 archers. I attack them, lose 1 jag against 2 archers. We also take down another chariot. Izzy's got two now: I suppose one other was messing around somewhere else.
IBT: Izzy whips an Archer. No, don't do that, please!
1320 BC:
Will one archer and two chariots keep out the Aztecs? Of course not! We attack Madrid again before Izzy even gets the chance to think the words 'City Garrison I' or 'Fortification bonus', lose 1 jag but kill the archer.
IBT: Izzy whips another archer.
1280 BC:
A quick prayer to the Random Number God gets results as we defeat the archer at 27% odds. Maybe I'm not as unlucky as shyuhe-6.5 would have me believe.
We kill the last archer and a chariot, lose a jag against the second chariot.
1240 BC:
Woo hoo! Izzy hasn't whipped anything! Madrid is ours!
Goodbye, Spain. Montezuma's Revenge, anyone?
We get Madrid with a Granary, a Lighthouse, a Monument and Stonehenge (!)
Priesthood is in. Around now I try for the Oracle in Tenochtitlan, foolishly forgetting to build our settler. My humble apologies.
The rest of the turnset was uneventful. Madrid was revolting for 5 turns, and I've starting building libraries around the place. Barcelona looks like an ideal place to run two scientists fast, Madrid can manage them as well.
I fear we might lose out on the iron because I only remembered after missing out on the Oracle (Hammy built it, and we didn't have a chance of chopping it out in Madrid... IIRC it just came out of revolt by then, which means Hammy would've beaten us there anyway. We still get wonder failure coins to run 100% research to CoL a bit longer though.
Madrid is very nice. It's got a lot of food so I want a library there.
I was lucky during this turnset. A good thing too, as the way I've conducted war against Spain took a lot of risk. I feared the war might drag out if I was fighting the war cautiously, so I took the risk and won. Please forgive me for putting our lives on the line...