OK: here's the breakdown of my first 5 turns.
Started
320 AD (end of turn).
IBT:
*2 Barbarian galleys move west away from Yayoi
*Spanish chariot moves towards Yayoi.
*Japanese archer moves next to Magyar.
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EDIT: Christianity is founded in Athens! How does Alex come up with techs so quickly?
Turn 1 (335 AD):
*Moved worker SW out of Corinth to build cottage on grass tile.
*Settler N of Ning-hsia building road.
*Alex. does not have Alphabet: no peace-for CoL swap available.
*Move 2 keshiks SE from Corinth, 2 tiles.
*Move 3 galleys (holding 4 axemen) NE 2 tiles, next to Athens. See Alex has 6 defensive units available.
*Other Galley ordered to Turfan (to defend home waters).
*Worker near Karakorum move W onto banana tile, building road.
IBT:
*Random Barbarian moves.
Turn 2 (350 AD):
*Discover Construction. Chose Iron Working next. Science rate down to 40% (-8 gold/turn) as treasury is fast running out, thus 5 turns to IW.
*3 galleys back SE 2 tiles. Unload 4 axemen into forest at southern tip of Athens island.
*Keshiks hold position.
*Corinth borders expand. Move 1 population point to work grass tile SE (soon to be cottage). 36 turns to city growth.
*Start building catapults in Corinth, Beshbalik and Karakorum.
IBT:
*Enemies move away from Yayoi & Magyar.
Turn 3 (365 AD):
*2 keshiks board galleys near Athens. Move galleys NE then N along coast.
*4 axemen move NW onto horse pasture tile S of Athens. Fortified.
IBT:
*Greek axeman and chariot attack our axemen stack. Both enemy units killed; 2 Mongol axemen damaged (3/5).
*Arab archer moves into jungle tile S of Ning-hsia.
*Arab chariot 2 tiles SW of Ning-hsia.
Turn 4 (380 AD):
*Move chariot into Ning-Hsia, stack with keskik. Will wait for enemy to leave jungle.
*1 axeman pillages Greek horse pasture (+4 gold). Treasury now 6. Science rate down to 30% (-1 gold/turn).
*Other 3 axemen (including damaged ones) move NE onto hill with Greek copper mine, E of Athens.
*Unload 2 keshiks onto same copper mine tile. Fortify all units.
*Galleys hold position (
my mistake, I should have sent 1 back to Corinth).
*Settler north of Ning-hsia moves E into forest tile.
*Settler on banana tile moves SE to hamlet by river.
IBT:
*More random barbarian moves.
*Arab archer moves NE onto our copper mine.
*Arab chariot holds position.
*Alex has built new scout in Athens - now has 5 defensive units present. Why didn't he build an archer instead?
Turn 5 (395 AD):
*Keshik/chariot stack in Ning-hsia attack Arab archer to E. Enemy unit destroyed; no damage to our units. Re-station both in Ning-hsia.
*Move last axeman onto copper hill E of Athens.
*Keshik pillages Greek copper mine (+9 gold). Will discover IW in 2 turns.
*Settlers building roads in woods NE of Ning-hsia, and on hamlet NE of that.
*3 galleys move E 2 tiles, back toward Corinth. Axeman with CR2 boards.
Game saved. EDIT: Right now, the situation is this -
I thought the idea was to build some cats to take down the defences before attacking Athens. Otherwise The-Hawk could have attacked Athens during his turnset.
