I played my first game with Jehu last night in Esquiline. I was a 3v3 default cont., no civ restrictions. The opponets went with Shang (blue), Shang (yellow) and Assy (green). Jehu was Shang, I was Minoan and our ally (grey) was Hittite. 3 fast civs vs. 1 fast/2 slow. It was a huge map (not gig) which favored the fast civs. At the start I was in the pocket at six, Jehu at eight and our ally at four. Yellow was right next to Jehu at ten, green at twelve and blue at two. I got a slow start due to far berries. I sent one villager above Jehu to try to harass yellow with slingers after I hit tool. I tooled with 25 vills, which was my first of many mistakes. I should have known the shangs would rush me. My two slingers I placed in yellows camp were boned to death and the barracks destroyed. At least it gave him something to think about. As soon as I hit the bronze button grey is yelling for help. He asks for stone and I give him all my stone. I tell him to hold on, but then Mr blue shang is in my camp by now with chariots and CAs. I had only four tool archers and two towers by gold. He feasts on my woodies and I run like a scalded dog. I was kicking myself at this time for not picking shang. I had fishing boats at six which went untouched most of the game so in that regard I was lucky. Jehu wasn't saying a peep so I knew he was OK. He was beating up on yellow. I made archeries by yellow and cranked out compys. I then hit yellow while trying to boom (not too successfully I might add). Jehu kept his cool the whole game and walled in nicely. He was the anchor while I spread out and did some guerrilla warfare. Grey was barely hanging on at four but I had lost the pocket. It was looking grim at this point. My compys had reached green by this time and blue helped him. I was trying to buy time for Jehu to iron. I never did iron as I concentrated on lots of compys. Jehu then started pushing yellow out of his area while I raided here and there. It was still looking grim because blue had HA's and ballistas, razing as he went. I snuck a vill into blues base and built two archeries. I then cranked out six compys and let them loose. I murdered a bunch of green and blue vills, while Jehu was mopping up yellow on his side. The tide was turned. I linked up with Jehu at ten and we systematically started finishing off yellow. Then lady luck smiled on us as green dropped. He really wasn't much of a factor in the game but it gave us a mental boost. We then trotted into blues base and started beating him up. About ten minutes later they resigned.
It was a team effort although I think Jehu pulled most of the weight in the game. It is really fun to play games with solid players who you can rely on to not give up. I celebrated the victory with some boudin and a coke. Hope to play with you again Jehu.