[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

I played through a couple of different variations to get a feel for where and in what order we should be settling. I thought that settling city three closer to Alfie could save some cash in costs, but it doesn't. I built two workers, then two settlers, then another worker and that seemed to get tiles up and running quickly. I thought about fishing or AH before pottery, but think getting cottages going earlier works better.

Then I wondered about settling a city to share the capital's pigs and grow cottages for it earlier than you did, but pottery still comes in quite late, and settling for the gems is obviously stronger, so the pig-sharing city should be no. 5 or 6, depending on what else we uncover to the north.

That gives a new problem: What should our dotmap look like after those first three cities?

V1 gives a lot of coastal tiles and allows purple to share five cottages (purple could go 1N for an extra hammer)



V2 fits in a city less and doesn't give a great moai site



V3 uses up a desert tile nicely



All these sites should take a back seat to settling NW of the gems city once we've uncovered that land, but I like V1 and V3 because more cities is better .

I wonder if the stone is going to be contested with a neighbour?