 So, I'm in a quandary. I've accepted a deal with Egypt to declare war on, oh good, okay, so I didn't want Memphis to fall, but basically my quandary was our civilizations are too stupid because it's too early in the game to have open borders agreements. So, we couldn't, I couldn't like declare war and then move in to help defend Memphis, but now that it fell, I can come in and try to save the day. So, I actually don't want to take Memphis and keep it. I actually do want to take it and liberate and give it back to Egypt. Uh, cynically, because I want Egypt to be a buffer state and if I take Memphis, I'd be in a really good position to win the game, but simultaneously, I would also be in a position to become the frontrunner and be ganged up on like happened in a certain other game. So, I got to be a little bit careful here, but this means I just got to convince my ally here that I am in fact on his side and I need to be very, there's nothing, these cities all suck up here. What the hell is Poland even doing? It's like nothing to pillage. None of this is upgraded. I guess I'll try to sneak down. I don't want to pillage the Memphis stuff because I want to protect Memphis. Alright, let's just, oh, get that caravan. That's what I'll do. Alright, so this guy I still want to have over here. Double checking, making sure that as much as I want Egypt my friend, you just welcome to settle up here in here. I'm settling here. I burned that safety to the ground for a reason. Okay, let's see. How do I do this? I got all my nice luxuries here. Let's just move these guys north. I'm gonna get these units up close to have them heal. I think I still have the largest army. Oh, I have the best everything except happiness. Alright. Oh, he's super unhappy because he took the city. Oh, you dick. I got you. Okay, so everything's safe over here. I still got to deal with that in Canada. I've wanted to do that for a while. I've just been busy. This is all just basic stuff. I'd like to finish that rider's guild faster. Chop down that forest. Alright, so what units are around? I wonder if he's pulled back or not. I'm kind of risking this catapult. Oh, he's got like nothing here. What's going on? What happened to your military, my friend? What happened to your military? I really want that guy to heal, but I would like to move him closer first. It's all rough terrain and I can't share territory here, so it's making it difficult to move in. I haven't met anyone else yet. So yeah, I'm on Egypt's side and I'm gonna try to liberate Memphis. And once I liberate Memphis, I don't know what I'll do. I can take this back in one turn. Don't mind if I do. I think that'll be enough. Yeah. I can't actually look at the city. Alright, well, I accepted the money from Egypt and I really should follow through my promises. I'm gonna liberate the city. So Memphis gets their city back. Oh, that has a nice side effect. I didn't even think about that. So look, because I liberated it, it happily pushed my troops that were in danger over here basically out of danger. So I can go back and heal everybody. This guy's back here. Memphis, we'll see if Egypt can defend it. But I've at least substantially slowed down Poland, who is right now my biggest real threat. So now let's slink back over the river. Let these guys heal a little bit. I think it's gonna be time to build my city over here. But I finished engineering. Alright. Fortunately useful. Great wall would be pretty good actually, except I don't have any... I'm gonna have that nice buffer state with Egypt. So that's actually pretty safe. So I think I should continue on toward metal casting, try to get forges and workshops quick. Because I said I wanted to push on culture, and I did the important culture stuff to start. The National College would be really good, but I can wait on that a little bit. I think it'll be worth it to get my manufacturing up first. Alright, now that the Rider's Guild is done. Oh, the default focus is really gonna... I'll take the culture for now instead of the production. Although I could finish something real quick. Let's let that default focus go for now. Slowly build a library, because I'd need that before I do National College anyway.