The Egyptians have a habit of shipping troops up from their heartland and dropping them off near Antioch.The first time i noticed this i ruled from Gaza up as far as Adana and thought it was a rather neat tactical manouvre to get behind my lines.The next time i noticed it i was playing another campaign and had a merchant in the same region which the Egyptians ruled this time and they were still doing the same thing, leading me to believe that Egyptians in the middle ages were rather lazy.