[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Fintourist]

- yeah Buddhism would be more use but the more religions we get the more monasteries we can build in Alfie! Do you want to use OR or build a Monastery for missionaries? Buddhism has a few more turns to spread to us .

If we get a random spread e.g. in Alfie then monastery sounds awesome. Probably we need to rely on OR though..

Sounds good. We'll need another Galley for that as I think the CH galley should go east to meet Whosit and whoever is on the continent north of him, right?

Actually I think we could use the same galley. Our CH scout could prioritize the northern coast of the continent, south is probably tundra anyways. Meanwhile our galley could transport the scout to northern continent and then continue to NE through pindi/barry waters. WB scout will head NW through Cyneheard's waters..

But what about unit costs?

I dunno where we want the Heroic Epic yet. Maybe Daisy, but it's got a bunch of commerce tiles to work. Hazelnut will be a good production city... or perhaps we'll capture a good city? The Hermitage might be handy in Gertie to try and keep control of our fish... The Forbidden Palace and Ironworks can probably go in () captured capitals. If we're warring a lot Mt. Rushmore would be useful too. Would the National Park be good in one of the southern tundra cities? How much do Forest preserves encourage forest growth?

According to quick googling forest preserves multiply the chance by 8. The chance grows still only from small to small..

Of course our current economic path and trying to do everything perfectly will probably mean we end up starting our warring too late and getting crushed by Mardoc's catapult horde...

That's a valid worry, but I'm still hoping that warring with Azza is costly for Mardoc as well and once we get that far we are working with both a production and tech advantage (and let's try to start the war with a brutal first strike..). It's true that we could capitalize on Azza's weak position already, but I'm willing to bet that his eastern border will be lightly defended still in 20 turns. Even if Azza and Mardoc sign peace Azza's troops most certainly will stay in defensive positions there..