[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Fintourist]

Had a quick look in game - the water south of the lake you marked is also a lake so there is a city there that could get at least five lighthouse lakes (although probably not much else). I did a quick worldbuilder test and our neighbour is indeed Cheater Hater, Bismark of Zulu. Hopefully he'll build us a wonder or two .

Let's hope! And thanks for confirming it (how did you do that?)!

For the scout do we want to head straight for the Pig/Gems area or over to the ivory/corn area? I'm inclined to explore Pig/Gems as that could yet influence the second city site (which I'm presuming will be cow/corn at this point).

Re scout: I Agree, that's probably the highest priority area.

Re city: Yeah, my current hypothesis is still site "b", SE of northern corn. Ivory/Corn/Sheep area is just a bit slower, E of corn in the north is a bit far for my taste and does not create trade routes via river so I prefer wasting a forest to it.

I also tested the spot that shares capital pigs and grabs cows + wheat. As you can imagine, 2nd city gets up to speed faster, it pretty much wins 2 turns in development compared to corn+cows site. However, wet corn is of course stronger than dry wheat and catches the difference turn by turn. I've only tried it once, but for now I don't think that those 2 turns snowball into something concrete enough that would justify giving up the corn and coastal plant.

On the religions Brickadoc aren't Spiritual - so why have they already revolted to Buddhism?

Intro: 6 teams have already grown to size 2, including Brick+Mardoc. Probable reasons for that are fast EXP+PH start and coastal start where one goes WB first (demos show that there are starts with water in BFC. and yeah, we have seen that CH's start is different compared to us).
Consequently: I would imagine that B+M finished their first WB (or worker) and decided that now while there are no improved tiles yet is a good time to revolt. That might be a decent move if they are going to need that 1 extra happy in the near future, waiting for the first GA could be too slow.. Or maybe they just wanted to show the whole word that they got it?