[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

Any observations from your sandboxing? Based on my sandboxing I think we can get Sailing first and still be close to getting Currency eot90. Roughly..

I wasn't too tight on the micro, but I felt that we needed to settle the cottage-sharing city east of Alfie in the mid-80s because the capital was at its happy limit working all it's cottages and the workers had time to spare. I used the surplus hammers I got because I couldn't build lighthouses to build units, which isn't a bad use of them, but lighthouses would be better.

We have a lot of trees to chop on the CH coast, so if TGL is possible we could put it there. It'll only benefit three or four of our cities though, so I'm not that keen. We want Masonry when we settle for stone - but I hadn't got to settling the stone city by t89 so it can wait until after Currency. I'd like to get a lot of chops into a Pyramids build when we do hook stone for the 1.5x multiplier on the fail gold.

Thinking later on in the game we don't have a coastal capital so Free Market isn't going to be as lucrative as PB13, so lets start to plan for a State Property economy now. Our core cities can be commercial monsters, then we try to put workshops everywhere else...

Ceil - I guess that winning is going to be about taking land off your neighbors better than the other front runners do. I'm pleased that none of our neighbors so far are Krovice, Plako, Dtay, Scooter, TBS, Pindicator or even Boldly Going Nowhere. The trouble is I haven't yet run a successful aggressive land war in my three games here, and I think we're going to need to be taking ready-developed land from someone by turn 120 to keep up with those guys... On the positive side though tech costs are so high that if we attack someone who doesn't yet have Construction or Feudalism we *should* finish them off before they can research it.