 So things have taken a turn. I didn't think Scott would have the guts to do it yet, but if you look at the overall Empire He's moved as a great general. He's thinking he's going to attack me here I don't know how much of a military he has. So if I look at the demographics You can see that soldiers wise he has a Significant gain on me moderate advantage, but I don't know how many actual units he has So I have to thread this needle very carefully or I could be in danger Now I'd like to get rid of these guys first, but I'd also like to move these troops over to be ready to defend against him So can I take these guys out in one around? Because it'll be some nice extra experience for the battle to come All right, so these guys can take them out next round. So I'm actually going to move this swordsman back over this way Yeah, it doesn't look like he has any assault coming from this side. Oh, yeah, he does He's got a couple guys hanging out there See we're not actually at war yet But I could attack this guy for a little bit of damage. That's a special crossbowman unit This is a war chair yet the war chair. It's basically worthless So let's retreat back Luckily to prepare for this. I'm basically I've got a bunch of military units Hanging out here. This guy even though he's almost done with the plantation I think I'm actually gonna have him retreat back My great general Can also start moving back. I don't know if Scott realizes I have to the horsemen Might want to run up and be ready to go around I'm not sure what I want to do with the horsemen yet So I want to keep the horseman kind of out of range a little bit to the back ready for anything I'm really horsemen around this way. Oh, no Yeah, I don't want to move him there probably because then he could start the assault immediately I don't know if he'll start the assault right away though So I've got this nice rough terrain here. So what I actually want to do in the short term I want to pelt these guys as much as possible as they're coming in and I think I want to build a bunch of military units in a hurry So I can build spearmen pretty quick. They're not great. I'd rather have pikemen, but Spheremen will do pretty well even against knights I'd like to build several units quickly just for attrition So I'll probably just start building a spearman so I can have a unit out relatively quickly here and He can't get over the hills and over here that quickly, but I do I'm gonna move this guy back Because look then from here He can basically shoot over and hit guys who are adjacent pretty easily and defend this whole corridor This other guy can stay in the city for the time being but I actually don't want him to stay in the city I'll move him out. Oh wrong guy Cuz I'm at it all work out the same way I want to leave the city open Because I've almost got enough money. I could just buy another spearman now or I could wait a little bit longer Two turns and then get a composite bowman an extra of range unit might actually be good in this case He's got the small force coming this way I think he's gonna try to converge around again on Memphis So these guys are actually gonna be useful because I can come in this way for extra defense. I Might actually want to move these guys up now, but I'm not exactly 100% sure what he's gonna do with this unit I suspect he's gonna try to come up this way So in that case I might want to come across in flank, but I know he's got that night there too I'll pretty much just have to play a boring defensive game here with a bunch of units clustered it around the city pelting everything until he Loses he doesn't have any siege units these things won't take the city on their own So I can pretty much just weaken him until it's over All right, I'm behind on science. I was driving toward this stuff or this stuff. I think I Would get the most bang for my buck right now. I Don't really need extra culture quickly though actually building the Parthenon would be very useful And I can start getting some great men These would be too late actually to affect the war effort So I'm actually gonna do this first assuming that I can win the war with my existing traditional sort of unit set And then rather than moving on here I'll actually jump back this way and probably do physics or machinery next And we'll see how this goes