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[Martok]

thanks for welcome Martok. I will pay heed to the advice about being able to pretty much modern day turkey, I do however find it easysier to halt at constantinople, georgia and cordoba on a purely strategic not it leaves my border at one province nice bottle neck for rebuilding my desert armies he he he

Indeed. Many people who play as the Byz/Eggies/Turks often make it their goal to conquer all the lands in between Egypt, Georgia, and Constantinople -- this area is often referred to simply as the Southeast Triangle, or more simply the Triangle. Conquering your way west over to Cordoba is pretty much just an extension of that.