Pre-turn:
Everything looks ok. Check current & possible trades. Iroquois have contact with America & Germany. Both Iroquois & Egypt know Maths & CoL. Egypt is willing to trade Maths for WM, 9g, & 1gpt. Peace treaty with Iroquois is over in 1 turn (we're due to get it next turn).
Move stack of 11 swords N of Cattaraugus.
IT
Iroquois declared war on the Egyptians.
An Iroquois galley crosses the channel to Egypt.
Turn 1) 330 BC
We learn Mathematics. Set research to Currency at minimum (40).
Lux slider up to 20% because only 1 MP left in London.
Renegotiate the Peace treaty with Iroquois.
One sword from the stack breaks off and captures 2 workers roading the incense hill. The rest of the stack moves directly N of Cattaraugus.
IT
An Iro galley drops off a reg archer N of York, then sinks the Barb galley.
London: Sword -> Sword (4)
Nottingham: Sword -> Sword (5)
Hastings: Sword -> Sword (5)
Turn 2) 310 BC
New sword from Hastings kills the invading archer losing 1 HP.
An elite sword attacks Cattaraugus and wins against a reg spear and ...
The great leader's name is Edward.
A vet sword attacks and loses to a reg spear taking 1 HP off of him and revealing that he's the sole defender of Cattaraugus.
3rd sword wins but is redlined, and we pick up another slave. It keeps it's harbor set to build Galley (30).
Use leader to build an army in Cattaraugus.
IT
Nothing
Turn 3) 290 BC
Load army with 3 vet swords. Move stack West to Tonawanda.
IT
A bunch of Iroquois galleys come back from Egypt.
One of them drops off two archers N of Cattaraugus, a vet sword approaches from the SW.
Hiawatha fortifies his sword outside of Tonawanda with 2 spears and an archer, but nothing attacks the army.
York: Sword -> Sword (8)
Turn 4) 270 BC
Egypt knows Literature
2 swords take care of the invading archers. Ed the Elite sword fortifies in Cattaraugus.
A vet sword attacks Tonawanda and loses 1HP inwinning against a vet spear.
2nd vet sword loses 2HP vs. a reg spear and takes Tonawanda, sinking a galley in the process. (Cat in 20)
IT
Ed loses & Cattaraugus is re-captured by the Iroquois sword.
A lot of Iroquois units move up from the South.
An Iro Sword kills one of our vet swords outside of Tonawanda.
Egypt is building the Great Library.
Turn 5) 250 BC
Vet sword wins against a reg sword.
Our army loses about 1/2 it's HP killing an Iroquois vet sword.
IT
We lose 3 swords to Iroquois swords and archers. Spearmen are moving into our territory, most likely to pillage.
London Sword -> Sword (4)
Hastings Sword -> Sword (4)
Turn 6) 230 BC
A vet sword out of Tonawanda loses in an attack to a reg spear that is passing by.
Trying to re-organize. We have an army at half strength + 3 swords in our stack, and 2 reinforcements en route.
Trying to re-organize our decimated forces.
IT
An archer comes out of St. Regis, threatening our workers up there, I had a sword hanging around just in case this happened, but with how things were going on the front last turn I started him South. Luckily he's still within 1 move of the archer.
Nottingham: Sword -> Sword
London riots, I wasn't paying attention.
Turn 7) 210 BC
Lux slider to 30%
Our Sword attacks and kills the St. Regis archer without injury.
Kill the 2 invading spears as our stack begins to come back together.
IT
An Iroquois reg sword attacks and kills one of our vet swords.
Egypt is building the Great Library (again?, must have abandoned the 1st build for some reason)
Turn 8) 190 BC
Egypt now knows the Americans and Germans
Hiawatha is willing to talk, but the only thing he's willing to give for peace is contact with either the Germans or Americans, not both, no techs.
A vet sword loses to a reg spear & promotes him.
A 2nd vet sword wins vs. the same sword & wins without taking damage.
Attack St. Regis with our sword up there and he loses to a reg spear.
This isn't going well. The RNG isn't being kind to us at all.
IT
One of our full health swords is attacked by a 2HP sword and loses.
Another Iroquois sword kills one of our 3HP vet swords.
Turn 9) 170 BC
All that remains of our stack is 2 Swords.
One kills the 2HP iroquois sword
The other kills a reg sword and is promoted to Elite.
IT
The Egyptian invasion arrives. A lone reg sword N of Cattaraugus.
A reg sword attacks our elite sword and dies, redlining ours.
A vet sword attacks our vet sword and wins, getting redlined himself.
Hastings: Sword -> Sword (4)
Egyptians are building The Great Library again.
Turn 10) 150 BC
Moving injured sword to safety.
Bringing one reinforcement from the North.
Iroquois know Polytheism & have entered the Middle Ages.
Checking the diplomacy screen, our bargaining position has been weakened. Hiawatha is not willing to give ANYTHING for peace now.
Had terrible luck with our attack. It might have been a mistake to try and hold Cattaraugus & Tonawanda. We didn't really have enough units to hold towns and keep an offensive. The Iroquois counterattacks were insanely effective. We sorely need cats, our worker situation is better with the additional slaves, and Hiawatha should be a bit more limited because the AI doesn't like to build workers.
**********The Save***********
I didn't think our small empire could do that. We can kill the iroquois now that we have an attack force like this.
Own?
. I'm a bit at a loss what to do. Our attacks on the Iro have been unsuccesfull sofar, and when they get pikes it will get worse. I think we may have to target Egypt first, but then we need a few boats. In any case we'll need catapults, both Egypt and Iro have large cities.
) so we'll have a very productive island resort.
