8 players and only one EGS - and that's from--- ROME!

ROME:

EGS? It's over? So soon? I'll stay on the list - I wanna see how it
turns out.

Well, from my obviously slanted point-of-view...

Rome, on 5 dracmas a day.

Coming in I sent the usual "Hi I'm Rome, please don't eat me" emails to
my neighbors. I made an early deal with Macedonia to not add to each
other's burden. I hoped to get with Germania against Gaul who I saw as
my biggest threat in that he really had to reach around me or go through
me - going through seemed the easier plan. Early on it looked like Gaul
and Carthage were bent on rendering Caesar and the eastern powers were
Archimedes wheeling through Macedonia and eventually in my direction, so
I pretty much resigned myself to guerrilla warfare and a quick death.

Gaul then offered a reprieve. From the start I could see the blade
hanging over my head - but in the meantime, Rome lived. A few quick
moves that happened to correspond with Egypt's move west put down the
Carthaginians, but just then a retreat dropped a German into Genua.
Then the German woke up, got some help from Scythia, and took the long
time Roman colony of Pannonia. Egypt landed on the heel of the boot,
and things pretty much went down hill from there.

I have to say I didn't expect to make it this long. Had Gaul not
changed target, I wouldn't have.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
Jerry