Thanks! It was fun to put it together, but there was a lot of fiddling to get the subtitles correctly synchronized. The program I used (VideoPad) was either buggy or extremely unintuitive. (So if anyone knows a better free alternative, feel free to suggest it.)
I'll post an actual in-game screenshot too, even though it's depressing.
Looks like I will be able to get a few horse archers out before he hits me again, so I should be able to eke out some kind of existence. But I'm really far behind. Or at least, Novice is really far ahead. I bet he's found the stone island and is gunning for the pyramids, and thus he'll be happy to play defense for a while. I could try to recapture Comoros (the isthmus city) but I'm not sure that's the most efficient use of resources. It may be necessary to have any chance of reining him in, though.
I also had a skirmish with Dazed, who frustratingly kept moving his galley into my waters, so I had to whip a second one. And when I hit him, my first galley got in too many hits, so that my second only got 1 XP from cleaning up. So I didn't even get a promotion on my second galley. He also landed a warrior that I killed with an archer. So that was kind of a pointless drain on both of us, from my point of view.
I plan to settle the stone island with the settler I'm finishing now. Not a very productive city, but it will rake in money, is relatively easy to defend, and needs no worker labor.
