Sorry it took so long...
IT Greeks request an audience. 9 workers sitting around. No deals. See a caravel leave out of Gortyn.
1405 Bomb down 5 rifles and a guerilla to 1 hp. All are taken out with many elite wins. All the runaways are wasted by the armies. Another 6 rifles and 2 guerillas. Prepare to take out Gortyn.
IT Settler/rifle/guerilla appears
1410 Gortyn razed with 2 rifles and a guerilla inside. Another 4 elite wins, 1 created but 1 lost.
IT See a frigate/galleon headed north.
1415 Armies isolate Athens. Move
IT Guerilla pops out near Persepolis. See a cav. Find it on German turf later.
1420 More elite wins but a loss to a redlined guerilla. Ick. I try to put an agent in Athens. Not happening.
IT
Germany ROP rapes us and takes Persepolis with only a healing elite and 3 arty inside. That was not cool.
1425 Try to put a spy in Germany again without success. Take Heidelburg with help from Pete's Army and a couple elite wins and a promotion. A king was included. Set up a couple forts between cities near Heidelburg. Take back Persepolis and another guerilla. Lose a cossack at Gingerov attacking a 2/4 cav. Lose another hitting New Heidelburg and a 2nd redlines. Fill in some infantry around the area. Bomb a group of 2 rifles and 2 guerillas NW of Athens. Take both redlined rifles with vets, hit the guerilla next with a LB and *presto* we get Lenin!!! Send Lenin to the German front where he has 2 cossacks inside. Finish off the last. There are no Greeks in the area.
SUMMARY
The Germans are coming with some cavs but I think we can hold them off. The question is whether we should stop with the Greeks and focus on Otto. We don't have a ton of troops but a number of cities are able to pop 2-3 turn cossack/infantry/arty. I only took 5 turns because it did take a fair amount of time to deal with both fronts, workers abd CE's etc.
Here are some pics of each front......