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

[Old Harry]

Originally I indeed intended the city to build Monastery next. With 2 dyes tiles that +10 % bonus is not completely useless. Without Monastery we have no chance to control that corn tile, with Monastery mack needs to improve his culture production and we will soon have caste artists that we can also use for trying to win that tile. Giving the tile up and choosing a military build is not bad either of course. LB to deter aggression from mack or cat for our own aggression are both solid choices. Hmmm.....

Well its going to be a commerce city, so feel free to change it if you want. I think Mack will build culture to stop us taking the tile, but if we can get to 100 culture first and pump a bunch of points into that tile then who knows what happens... Also future builds in Cannae and Agincourt could perhaps be Monasteries?

Actually I think this is a perfect moment to whip that longbow.

Okay, sounds good.

Consequently I don't think that we want to run any engineers in Agincourt. We would need to start teching Nationalism pretty much now and count on that low-odds engineer if we want to win Taj.. So no..

I think there is still a benefit in terms of flexibility - an engy can start a GA or build Notre Dame or something else for us.

b) I want to get BoP 1/2 sizes bigger. (giving the fish to BoP soon)

In that case we can give it the fish this turn - I was wondering how to slow Agincourt anyway...

I've been thinking about our GP production and I'm wondering if pushing for Economics GM merchant would be a good target? Economics also enables free market civic, which is a valuable target on its own and obviously Guilds is also on the tech path, which is practical. I don't say we are going to get it if other contenders are going for it. We are not the first ones launching GAs and e.g. if Pindicooter/mackoti go after the same target we might be too slow.

Free market did very well for Plako in PB8, so this sounds very good to me.

In practice this would mean that of our 4 GPs:
2 will be used for 2nd GA
1 bulbs part of Education
1 runs a trade mission to support our teching (how much did you calculate that we would get from Ichabod's Stray Geese?)

1500 gold, possibly more if he builds a harbour or we grow Agincourt bigger... I'd like to get a prophet for a shrine too, that would be worth nearly 30gpt straight away, and keep rising with a Bank and Wall St...

EDIT: 1 more thing. Am I interpreting correctly that Commodore did not open OBs and Lewwyn has not got the offer yet?

I think that's right. I'm off out for the evening now, so can you look at Agi/BoP, Peterloo and Nuremburg and send the chariot out to explore?