[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

Just going in and burning the city would feel a bit wasteful as we probably can't do it with super favourable hammer exchange. So if possible, defending with selected units or simply having a strong enough stack to hold the city feel more tempting options. We have now 15 knights, 10 HAs + other stuff running around nearby so once the next wave of units (including some cats) arrives and we heal our existing forces I think there is a decent chance that we are strong enough to park our units next to azza's stack.

Looking back on turn 123 Dental Plan only had 20% culture, so it's possible that capturing Boo-urns gives us freedom to move on the hills to the west of the city and hit a recapture force. Speculating is a bit pointless before we know what Azza is up to though.

After Banking do we get top-tree techs or try to beeline Economics? As visible in our demos this warfare and military build-up has hurt our GNP and winning the free GM might be difficult/out of our reach. I did not remember to check F4 this turn, but I assume nobody has Paper yet though. Anyways, after Banking we should probably save some gold for a while before commiting into one of those paths. Beelining Nationalism and trying to land Taj without standard Liberalism play would be kind of a cool play too, but Economics is pretty tasty.

I was keen on getting the HE and NE planted, but actually getting Economics then back-filling could be the bigger prize. We don't necessarily need to produce lots of units in ten turns time when the HE would be in place.

On the first-to bonii: Only BGN has Philosopy, no-one has Banking or Paper, I'd guess that dtay has Engineering, although it could be Krivice, to defend against dtay. If we get to Banking first and can manage not to blow too much cash on upgrades (I'd like to start saving cash once Alfie's bank is in place - we could part-research Paper until it is) then we're in a good place to get Economics, but perhaps we should be tempted by one of the bigger prizes . I'm assuming BGN is in pole position for the Taj, I have no idea who is suddenly going to break from the pack to launch the Liberalism race, but we could Lib Economics to kill two birds with one stone...