[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

Hello there,

now that all pairings have been published I plan to comment on our opponents as soon as I find time for it. But first couple of quick comments:

• Naming theme sounds great!
  
• I agree with your list of important targets/general outline in the previous post. Of course, all that stuff can't be really evaluated before we see our start and begin scouting.
  
• In the general our target must be to get as much as possible rolling as soon as possible. Our traits are not strong enough to win this game with the land parity (e.g. there is Darius in the play). We need more space than our opponents to be competitive so we better start working on it immediately. I think our goal is to match in expansion teams with traits such as EXP & IMP in the early game (or be as close behind as it's humanly possible), and just keep pushing (by any means necessary) when our opponents decrease their pace.
  
• I totally agree with cottage sharing if possible
  
• I'm ready to slave our pop mercilessly and chop every forest if that provides us the fastest start. We'll see how it looks
  
• That religion stuff is really difficult to evaluate beforehand. If we are forced to focus on other worker/military techs, I'm fine with adopting a foreign religion spreading it and eventually capturing the shrine using our double promoted maces (or something else)
  
• We can and should recognize who we are playing against, but let's not be anymore scared of Commodore than a new face. RNG will be on our side!
  

Yeah, can't wait to see our start! (Brick, this does not mean that you should hurry! I'm willing to wait a week or two if it means that we get a great map!)