[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

1. CH's northern area is getting destroyed by dtay. CH lost 3 cities of which dtay kept 2. We have a new neighbor.

Gah!

2. CH offered us 200 gold for 20 gpt. I thought a while and accepted. He still has ~9 cities and I really doubt that dtay can kill CH in 10 turns. So here's the hoping that the money goes for useful upgrades.

Good call, I dunno what he can upgrade though - perhaps he's just got Feudalism or needed a bit of cash to get it?

5. I wonder whether we have enough power for an immidate push. We have still 15 knights in total, 1 more finishing this turn (another in queue waiting for military advisor bonus at Hazelnut). 11 of them are in range to move onto the forking tile (better known as Hydra tile) next turn, only 3 of those are full health though (many are close to full health, at least after taking promos, 2 are at 9.9/10 etc.). We have 5 HAs that can also reach the Hydra tile. Anyways, capturing a city or two would be nice as we want to reduce Mardoc's production power as soon as possible in order to cut down our own future losses. But we are not allowed to play too greedily. Losing a bunch of wounded units unnecessarily and then retreating would be stupid. Anyways vol 2, I liked your illustrations and capturing Infrared would be awesome. That city still has a decent amount of pop that could be turned into costly lbows..

Pausing a turn to heal up and get some reinforcements is an option, but I think a quick push to THHill (at least with the sentry chariot) could release a lot of pressure and then allow a slow approach with catapults to the rest of his area.

6. Yay for wines! Did you offer wines for furs/dyes to pindi yet?

Nope, forgot - if you log in again go for it, otherwise I'll do it next turn.

7. Yay for PMW and Hello Joe coming out of revolt. No Homers next turn! Did we decide on naming theme for captured cities? Keep the original names and respect their previous owners? Or name them after guinea pig nutrition...

I'm a bit superstitious about renaming cities before the come out of revolt for some reason - they'll all get their new names next turn .

9. for your spy specialist at Kirby. I think I have taken it off like 3 times so far and it always comes back... This time I left it! Enjoy your +3 GPP!

Hey! That could have been 12 GPP by now!

12. 20 % of the world knows Judaism. That religion has worked way too well for dtay. With these huge tech costs it really makes a difference if you e.g. get 2 useful worker techs from huts and can afford to go for the religious line. I'm not sure, but IIRC correctly dtay got 2 early hut techs. (at least 1, e.g. BW would have been enormous)

Our ~200 gold from huts kicked in later, but still meant we were one of the first to Bureau. I wonder if a lurker would like to plot up hut takings vs scoreboard position chart for us?

13. Only 6 more civs left to met! And it seems in couple of turns it's just 5! I wonder if we will find everybody :P

Is that because we're about to meet them or they're about to die?

14. Let's offer our surplus ivory for something for someone? (too lazy to search for a trade partner now)

I have a feeling everyone got Ivory as a balance thing didn't they?

Excelent game guys,thank you for reporting.I can say now the players from RB are far beter then 3-4 years ago when i joined, you, TBs, dtay all very good players.
Seeing how you play here i think i done a good job on 13 keeping you on check .

You got lucky that we had a horrible jungle-choked start (let's just overlook your Suttree problem here .)