It was actually a 3 vs 3, but eug and hemmie's ally was slain very quickly by hordes of compy bowmen, and our ally did nothing either, so it was essentally a 2 vs 2.
I was green, minoan, Kurtie brown, Persian - a foolish choice - hemlock was blue, shang, and eug was yellow, yamato.
Since the map was hill country, it took me forever to tool. but it always does anyway, so....I found three berry patches here and there, and a group of four elles near red, the ally the was quickly eliminated.
I was so spread out there was ONE vill doing wood in my town. After I bronzed I began to spread out more, since i already was, and did all the farm upgrades and began setting up tc's all over. I hit red with compies while he was stillin tool and he was out. Then eug hit kurtie with a cavalry horde. I sent some compies up to help..but...compies are slow, and the first wave mostly died. I had also sent up a builder, and he build enough buildings to crank out troops to stabilize the situaiton. About this time i took an army and marche dinto eug's farming areas and wood plot, apparently driving most of them away. More cav came down and more compies died. Kurtie was trying to recover from eug's attack, and building a secondar base at nine, and I decided to find blue, since eug was dispersed all over I found him alright, and we fought a little ca - compie war before his cats arrived to spoil the party. I was stillin bronze, and I began to be VERy afraid when his cats began blowing away my men. I cranked out vills out of six tc's, set them on gold, and thre up sw's and st's all over the place. Wheni got to iron I invested in cats, only to discover that hemlock had switched to scythes. they wiped out many compies and cats, wiping out forwrad bases into the process, until i got the heles. eug now began sending rains of ha's all over the map. Very annoying I kept losing men and the fight was going nowhere fast. I encroached a little on hemlocks southern flank, before my cats died, and I wiped out a forward base of eug's in teh center. My forward bases were dying left and right. AFtr i got the hele I begged for resources form my allies to build a few. I now had to spend many minutes on economy, until I had enough wood and gold to crank out seige. They met the scythe/ha attacks and deftead them, and began to head deeper into his base. Hemlock now unleashed a torrent of ha on to kurtie, who had just gotten an army. Being persian, he chose armored ellies, and they chased down teh ha's. They then pivoted and plunghed into hemlocks northern flank. I hit it from teh center and south and they began to crumble. eug was using slingers on my compies wtih devastating effect until my cats arrived. then two of his cats killed four of mine, and I was left with one cat and one compie. Three vills ran up, and attacked the cat and i was left with one compie. Taht ended somewaht the middle attack. I brought up more men and hit from the sides, being very glad that kurtie's eles were there to help me. We finally won, after a LONG hard battle. PS - during the game, when I was very low on res, I asked kurtie for gold and wood, and he very nicely gave it to me. The only problem was that he gave it to eug instead. eug wasnice enough to pass it on, so it all worked out. It was a fun game.