Pharoh's Army

I was a leader in the Egyptian army.  Not the modern army but an army that only used spears and bow and arrows.  We were fighting invaders and had formed a defensive line behind a small hill.  The hill was long and about 4 feet high so it was almost like a trench.  The other army was behind a similar hill that ran parallel with the hill my army was behind.  The foreign army looked odd, like flat cardboard pieces used in a board game.  We stared at each other for a along time then somebody in my army reached their spear over the two hills and speared two enemy soldiers.  That started the fighting.  Even though we were evenly matched in numbers the foreign army used arrows where we only used spears.  The army that I was in started getting killed.  When each soldier got killed they turned red and slid backwards down the hill.  Eventually we had to give up the fight and moved back into our walled town.  The town was so poor we could only raise up spear men to defend the town.  I looked to a friend of mine.  He said don't feel bad, I have a town in Alaska where it takes me 10 turns just to raise one spear man.  I looked down and there was a large map of the world.  He did have a city on a long finger of land in Alaska that was so poor he could not do anything there.  I suggested he abandon the city but he wanted to continue with it even thought it was more trouble than it was worth.