I have just made it to Chivalry and need to attack soon. I'm waiting a few turns to get enough gold to upgrade the rest of my horsemen. My biggest fear right now is that Germany will get riflemen before I can destroy them. I just bribed the Celts (green) into an alliance.
Look at it this way - you've run into the uber spearman of the Map Generator.
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