Anyways, I got attacked by Cairo a few turns ago:
I noticed when there's 2 turns left of our earlier peace treaty Cairo started to camp the timer in order to play after me. He basically stopped expanding and went full military so that made me really nervous especially considering he still haven't met anyone else yet. So I declared war and offered a peace treaty in case that he's worrying about me attacking, but he turned it down.
When he sent in his units I managed to get 3 axes, 1 spear, and 1 immortal inside the city.
On the other side of the empire, BGN declared and managed to get an axe/spear next to my city.
Earlier, he left his chariot exposed, and I was able to road and kill it with a spear.
Demos and Power:
Cairo did not attack and pillage my horse, and camp his stack here:
BGN on the other hand, did something extremely bizarre. He move forward another axe so I baited his axe/spear pair onto the plains hill forest 2E of Tarsus. I then killed his trailing axe with an immortal at 74% odds.
Then I baited his axe/spear pair onto my deer tile, where I attacked with 3 axes. My first axe won against his axe on the forest at 7.5% odds(!), but then my second axe lost to his spear at 74% odds. And my 3rd axe cleaned up.
I moved the rest of my units up to this situation:
This is probably the event that annoyed me the most, however:
A jungle grew over my gems!
I'm pretty perplexed by my neighbours' actions to be honest. Cairo completely stopped his snowball in order to attack me, and he really need to snowball the early game as Mao. Instead he's paying for a huge army, and I bet a lot of supply costs too considering he's just sitting his army in my borders. I'm pretty sure he also spent 80 gold upgrading a warrior to a spear(Otto was a CI warrior in an earlier screenshot). He did not settle a single new city for 20 turns and was pretty late to his 5th city, behind BGN(Darius), Ichabod(Wang Kon),and Yuri(Pericles) who are all playing better late game leaders.
BGN, too, basically lost 4 units for very little gain of his own.
The two of them combined definitely set me back a fair bit however, I had to do dumb stuff like whipping off food resources to get out units. It's almost turn 70 and I've got no granaries, no cottages, and no happiness. I still think I've got a chance at winning if things can start to go my way, but it will definitely be difficult.
I think I've covered the major events, any questions?
