 Well, it's time for war. You beat me to it by two turns. I can't get to where I wanted to settle, so my options are I could sneak all the way over here. It's good spots up there to settle nice and early, or I can go back here, consolidate. So I think I am gonna move this guy back to prepare to settle. And otherwise, it's pretty much war time because I cannot let that aggression here stand. I've gotta get into a war posture pretty quick. I'll finish the water mill. I'm a spearman, spearman. And when can I start making catapults? Soon as I can make catapults, I'm gonna make a few, and then basically go immediately to war against Persepolis. That's what's gonna happen. If I'm gonna war, I should probably build a road to connect these cities as well. So I can more easily move guys direct to the front. So the way this war is gonna go down. Let's see, how will I do this? I didn't expect to have to go to war immediately. Kind of wanted him to just surrender here. So I'm gonna get my settler all the way back over here. If he settles here, I don't think he'll have much going on. I'm gonna ignore Suza. And I'll pretty much just send catapults and everything straight up here to attack Persepolis directly. Yeah, not too worried. In fact, not too worried at all. All right, we're at war. Wonder if I can just take it out. I wonder if I can... So the defense's only 17. And check this out, there's no walls there. It's basically undefended. Look at all these workers I got back here. I don't see any avenue of trouble. Let's get my settler back to safety since I wasn't able to settle where I wanted to. Oh my God, I'm gonna raise Suza, but not immediately. Is that a good spot? No, that's not a good spot. That's a terrible spot. I'm gonna raise Suza and build the city where I wanted to build it here. All right, so he's protecting that worker. So do I attack the city or do I just flee? First, let's get the worker I stole out of there. That guy can't move in and attack in the same round. I kind of wish I'd started weighted like one turn to start the war. Guess I should build, like finish the spearman. I should keep building military units. There's not much else useful to build in this city in the immediate term. And even though they produce slowly, it's good to have a pipeline of units coming up. Strength seven, pathfinder strength eight. I could probably use another pathfinder just to explore. Yeah, I don't think I need to worry too much about walls. Let's do it. Let me know all the rest of these guys are just going to finish this road as fast as possible. Yeah, I can seriously threaten that city. I think that might be his only military unit. You might have one up exploring over here, but I don't think there's much else. I don't think there's much else. Do I retreat momentarily and then come back in or do I attack now? Let's see, I can do a little bit of damage and that little bit of damage. I could probably take the city, but I'd rather these guys come in so I could attack all at once. I'm going to temporarily retreat. I could do one damage on my way out. Oh no, I can't because of those hills. Let's retreat and fully heal. Bodes well for the war and it does not bode well for Persia. I can probably take the city out with just these units. I think this is feasible. Just get my guys all in here. Yeah, look, I do reasonable damage to the city. He doesn't really have any units to attack me except the city itself. I can whittle it down with this bowman, this composite bowman. You just hang out here and heal. I think it's looking pretty good. Get rid of those barbarians. Oh yeah, and I connected these cities too. That was something I was working on. I forgot what to do with the settler in the interim if the war does not... Because I want, the problem is I wanted to settle here and everything would have been fine, but because I have to deal with this too, then I still can't use the settler over here until I raise Suza to the ground because I don't want Suza. If I'm going to capture it and burn it because I really want to build that city here. This wouldn't be the worst spot. No, it's just so suboptimal. Yeah, Suza's going away. But that means I'm not going to have any use for the settler in a while because nothing else is going to get settled over here. So I got to send the settler up here. So I should actually send him over toward where the spearman is going to come out and the spearman can escort him up to settle and then come across to fight the war. Meanwhile, these guys should continue to build out my awesome cities. I should stick relatively close to the interior of my territory, at least for now. Because I don't want to lose losing any of these workers. I mean, I could get him back pretty easily, but there's no reason to deal with that kind of problem if I don't have to. The city's growing pretty quick too. Yeah, I've got work tiles that, well, I've got to develop tiles that aren't even being fully utilized yet. Are you focusing on growth? Is that why? Yep, let it grow because these will not let the city grow. So let's just grow it out. It's looking pretty good. I'm feeling this.