Well Scarab I continued to play that night and boy did I play. I played 2 more games that night. The first one was a 2 hour grueller with Plghh(carth), _Og(carth) on my team and Darq_oneeye(assy), PSprince(yammy), and Partybarge(minoan) as enemies.
Well, I lucked out on the random draw and got shang, though my other partners both got carth. I was on the south end at 6, plggh at 12 and og at 3. Party unfortunately was at 4:30. Well, I have suffered many tag teams but this was the cake, I was tooled by prince that I was able crush, then Party's rushed w/ compies that I am barely holding against. Oneeye now sends 3 scout boats that start harrassing my fishing boats. Last 15 of prince's cav come storming in taking out the stone throwers that I had intended on hitting party's compies and move princes new vacation retreat next to my town.
So I do what I do best, run! Princes cav chase me, so I split all peons in different directions and only lose 3 peons in the whole transaction. On their travels I went right thru party(at 4:30) and oneeyes towns (at 10:00).
Lucky both plghh and og begin kicking some serious butt that I am able to relocate in three areas, iron and help finish the game by getting scythes to a gold depleted map.
Next game, Partybarge, Red_Rocks and me, against duck of death and two others I didnt know. I got yammy, red got shang and party got assy against 2 chosons and another slow civ. Needless to say it was the first time I have done an scout/axer/slinger/scoutboat rush in my life while still pulling off a 16 min bronze. Game over in 24 minutes, and I was the only one of my teammates not iron, only 56%.
It's amazing how a couple of wins lift the spirits of such a horrible eariler loss. ------------------
He who has the last peon standing, wins!