[1] 1200 start expecting to fight a defensive game for a while. Agriculture in 4, but no sign of a settler to follow
.. Our valiant warrior wins against a barb warrior. One more on our doorstep though, and an archer and warrior on the way.
[2] 1175 Thought Id sit and be attacked again
but in a strange twist, the warrior who was SW of the city turns round instead of attacking! The might of the erm
.mighty
Greeks must now be legendary. Unfortunately, the 4 barbs coming from the N are all still advancing.
[3] 1150 Oh. He just decided to turn round to shout to his mates, two of whom are advancing with him. Theres now 5 from the North. Our first archer was trained, so I thought Id produce
another one! Could be in for a rough ride! Just about to be attacked by two warriors and an archer!
[4] 1125 Trouble at mill! Sparta lost a warrior to an archer. Theres now just one warrior left, but the archer they will attack with only has 0.4 left. Ive put everything on production, so we should grab an archer before anyone else reaches us. Animal Husbandry was researched, so Ive popped it onto masonry to try and grab some walls. I think we need to try to keep our cities!
[5] 1100 ARGH!!! The archer was victorious and weve lost Sparta.

It was 57.5% towards us, but to no avail. I'm enjoying my first SG game!

Will hold off the 5 barbs currently heading for us, whilst letting them build up Sparta until were ready to take it back.
[6] 1075 [9] 1000 Interesting developments. It may be because were now down to fourth in the rankings, but the barbs seem to have become bored with us and turned around to fight someone unknown! Oh joy, oh rapture! Will switch to worker in a moment, and get some improvements going.
[10] 980 [11] 960 Darn it, theres a couple who are still up for the rumble. We now have two archers though, so Ive switched to a worker and hopefully we can eventually get something going. Weve not got enough offense to take Sparta back, and I dont think we will for a while.
[12] 940 [13] 920 Well, another Archer and Warrior defeated and were racking up the experience points, but not much else. Worker will not be ready on my shift, but Id suggest a double unit escort. Im not looking forward to them barbs when they come with bigger units!
[14] 900 [15] 880 Two more turns, two more barbs on their way! Just warriors though, should be no hassle. Will have Masonry shortly. Going to switch to some more worker-friendly sciences.
[16] 860 [17] 840 Barbs vanquished, now heading towards Animal Husbandry. Itd be nice if we had horses. Ill not rest until Sparta is recovered!
[18] 820 [20] 780 Theres more barbs on the way, but a workers not far off either. I guess well have to take th plunge at some point.
Well, not the greatest of turns I'm afraid! You'll have to tidy up after me, but it's all part of the challenge eh!

I'm off for a swift pint or so to drown my sorrows! I'll look forward to seeing how you can work it from here all.
Oh, I would post a screen shot here, but I'm not sure how to

so I'll link you to a jpg. Oh, and it's a really badly done one in paint, but I'm pretty sure that being a PS expert was not part of the sign-up criteria!
