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Goal: Destroy the Assyrians and Chaldeans. The Skinny: This is a straightforward scenario that shouldn't give you too many problems. Like many other scenarios, it requires you build quickly for an attack, but if you survive, you can relax a bit. To start you need to prepare for an axemen attack within the first five minutes. You are in the Bronze Age, but you essentially have Tool Age technology. Put everyone on berry and gazelle duty and build four or five more villagers and split them between meat and wood duties. Then build a couple of barracks and create six to eight axemen. The Chaldeans are to the north. They will attack first. The Assyrians are to the west across the sea. They too will invade, but later. Put up three or four watch towers around your camp. The towers, along with your axemen, will stave off the Chaldeans. After the Chaldeans are repulsed, you need to do that thing you do so well by now: Build your city and army and advance to the Iron Age. There is gold just to your east. Grab it before the Chaldeans do. There are also a couple gold deposits to the east, so don't be satisfied with the first one you see. During this building process the Chaldeans will dribble a few small attacks at you. Be ready. The Assyrians will also join the party and bombard your western shore with their galleys and eventually triremes when they upgrade. Expect a few invasions from the Assyrians as well. They are not too difficult to repulse, provided you have adequate tower protection. You can play it two ways at this point: Get tough early with the Assyrians and build a navy to protect your shores then sail to theirs and destroy their dock, or simply concede the sea to them for now. The Chaldeans will have to be eliminated first. They happen to be storage pit happy in this scenario, and you'll see those pits cropping up all over the place. You can ignore them for the most part, but you can also use them as villager magnets. Just build a priest or two then have one of your axemen start beating on one of their storage pits. The Chaldeans will send villager after villager to repair the pit, and your priests can convert them. Get to the Iron Age and build an army, then march on the Chaldeans. Use the siege weapons to destroy their settlement slowly but surely. When the Chaldeans are a pile of smoking rubble, build a couple of docks and a big navy and sail towards the Assyrians. Defeat them on the seas then bombard their coasts to soften them up. When you have destroyed their coastal defenses, invade. It's all a slugfest now, so just pour it on. Bring a few villagers to build a barracks, archery range, tower, etc. Dangers: Getting overrun at the beginning or allowing the Chaldeans to control the gold are the only real sticky points in this scenario.
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