War Acadmy: Persia instead of France?

[Guardian]

No, no, no, no... NO!

Persia is too far away from our heartland at this point. The war would take too long, cost too much, and we'd have little to gain from it in the foreseeable future. With France, we can have another quick and decisive victory, and then we'll consolidate our position and take it from there.

[Max]

Enough with bananas: Persia meens more jungle and thus more bananas.
Let's colonize a fertile territory and get wine that our people can enjoy!

I'm personnaly fed up with bananas: banana cake, banana pie, banana marmelade, pizza with banana, banana split... ENOUGH.

Still we will soon have a problem with persian immortals. How are we supposed to deal with this ? Any plan ?

[Spiffor]

Plan : more units in Ubergorsk
Founding a city N of Ubergorsk to contain Persian expansion
Getting along with Xerxes (since we built an embassy, he's cautious towards us)

[Shiber]

It looks as though by the time Persia gets iron we'll already have a few swordsmen of our own. If we play our cards right we might delay Persia enough to reach the next era before they even get their iron, and then their immortals will soon become outdated by knights.