pre-flight:
Have to address JT in north. Change Kish to archer done in 1, change Bad-Tibira to Ew done in 1, put worker in the woods. Put an EW and archer in Kish.
IBT - JT decides to attack Kish and defeats EW. JT dies at Sumer [1-1]
1) 975 BC - Regular archer defeats redlined JT in the north and the threat is ended. [2-1] Up science to 60% to get IW in 6. Our irrigated cow near Sumer has a JT on it and I have no way to address it now.
IBT - Irrigated cow is pillaged. JTs die at Lagash and Umma [4-1]. Horse attacks Umma but retreats. Mayans have mathematics now.
2) 950 BC - Put two EW and archer on second irrigated cow near Sumer. Workers headed to Lagash.
IBT - JT dies at irrigated cow [5-1]. Mayans must have another enemy as their units start moving away from us. Here comes another boat.
3) 925 BC - Making some preparations for the landing party.
IBT - Two JT die at Sumer [7-1]. The Mayan withdrawal continues. Mayans finish Great Lighthouse in Copan.
4) 900 BC - Plotting to address Mayan boat. Sumer needs two scientist to stave off anarchy, and is temporarily losing one food per turn.
IBT - 2 horse die at Sumer and one JT at Lagash [10-1]. 2 JT land in woods near Bad-Tibira. We get our first ancient cavalry. He looks good. Lagash does not as I pulled out too many units and forgot to MM.
5) 875 BC - AC moves toward JT invaders, 3 archers also in range. Put second unit back into Lagash. Notice 7 JT's outside Umma. This is bad. Open coverage on irrigated cow as a distraction. Change Umma to build EW costing 6 shields. Kish is open as I put a second EW in Bad-Tibira. Come and get me JTs.
IBT - No attacks, they are going for the bait. JT comes out of the woods toward Kish.
6) 850 BC - First JT suffers painful death at the hands of our wicked AC, who is promoted to elite on the spot, losing 0 hitpoints! Regular archer attempts on second JT but fails, putting JT in the yellow. I leave him as target practice for AC next turn. Kish now has archers and AC fortified inside.
IBT - JT dies at Umma [13-2]. Iron working is done. Decide we need to get to mapmaking so start on writing. Due up in 11. Chichen Itza finishes Mausoleum of Maus.
7) 825 BC - AC defeats JT in the north woods, no leader [14-2]. Spot Mayan iron SE of Umma. Dispatch elite EW to disconnect. Maya have 26% of area and 32% of pop. We have 8 and 17 respectively.
IBT - Attacks at Lagash take out two JT and we lose one EW [16-3].
8) 800 BC - Nothing much. A little MM. Umma is up to size 3 and needs a specialist to avoid anarchy. I do not want to raise lux above 30 so hire a scientist. Elite EW can see the iron is not hooked up yet.
IBT - JTs attack our irrigated cow tile costing two EW and netting one JT. Another JT impales himself at Lagash [18-5]. Four JTs with spear escort converge outside irrigated cow tile.
9) 775 BC - Elite EW steps on to the iron tile. Moving archers and cats into position - elite AC can reach from Kish.
IBT - JTs fail at Umma and Sumer [20-5]. Two vet JTs and spear now on irrigated cow. We produce our second AC and just in time.
10) 750 BC - Three cats fire at stack and one hits. Send in regular archer and he only takes off one hit point, getting himself enslaved in the process. New AC defeats spear, elite AC takes out a JT, elite archer fails on 3 HP JT, and veteran finishes him off, and we now have another worker [23-7].
Elite EW fortifies on the iron - not sure it will do any good.
Besides the 7 units the only other loss was the improvements on one of our two cows and one lost turn in Lagash.
I am not happy with my MM the last few turns, so please check the cities. Umma is starting to show a culture flip risk, may want ceremonial burial after writing.
Smoky will give 3 techs for peace but I know that is not our way. He does have another source of iron hooked up also.