[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Fintourist]

Have we had any other religious spreads?

The only Buddhism spread is in Lucky and we have a total of 3 hindu cities. Buddhism only has 4 % coverage of the world (Hindu 8 and Judaism 15 %). I think Mardoc hasn't been too lucky while dtay should really file in the lottery ticket.. Of course that is probably due to geographic etc.

Pro Hindu:
- Easier to spread, 3 cities already on main continent will get missionaries quick to core cities
- We don't support Mardoc in case he builds a shrine

Pro Buddhism:
- Only our island city has it, the start will be slower
- Significantly higher chance to actually own the holy city (and shrine)
- We would not support pindicator

I'm slightly leaning towards Buddhism because of the chance to own the whole continent and the shrine, but feel free to talk me into Hinduism..

We could try to time overflow or a chop to complete a missionary from one of our Buddhist or Hindu cities on the last turn of the GA (when we've revolted to OR), spread to a nearby city the next turn and again have overflow or a chop complete a missionary and so on towards the capital...

With Hinduism I think a chop could be organized. With Buddhism I think the gig goes something like that:
Last turn of GA: Lucky starts Missionary
GA+1: Missionary whipped
GA+2: Lucky starts a 2nd Missionary
GA+3: Lucky whips a 2nd Missionary, Izzy gets Buddhism and starts a Missionary
GA+4: Izzy whips a missionary
GA+5: 2 missionaries available at Izzy, one probably heads for capital, 2nd one maybe towards Cornelius
GA+6: Izzy whips its 2nd missionary..

As said, Hinduism starts much quicker, Jelly Bean has a forest that can be chopped into Missionary (I think we can manage to create required 10 base hammers as well), which means that Alfie would get the spread on GA+1 (with Construction) or GA+2-turn..

So it's really a battle between short-term and potential long-term benefits.. Damn I wish we would get at least one further Buddhism spread somewhere..

I was going to say something about our land area stat improving with all the borders we'll pop in the next few turns, but they're mostly grabbing water .

Yeah Actually we add a decent amount of land tiles during the next turns as well, but they are mostly plains, tundra or ice so I'm not sure whether we should really feel better about our improving land area ranking..