We Have War Chariots!
Just with this gulf I was quite sure that Hector would use it to come to my capital. Using this new place and with the coastal region, two attacks would come to corner my capital.
Then that bastard enemy of mine would come from the north. I got over my earlier doubts. He would come from the north.
But this alarmed me. I lacked scouting the new lands after this merging calamity.
So I started moving my chariot around, getting to know more about what changed here.
I didn't move too deep south. Aside from this New York gulf, I found another one just in the Maryland region, just extending from the southern borders of New Jersey and ending deep in the middle of Pennsylvania.
This gulf was broader, looking much bigger than the New York one.
Having the two gulfs surrounding and pressuring New Jersey, this once a decent sized state started to look like a long and thin stretch of land, taking the shape of a thin finger protruding in the middle of the ocean.