[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

Btw, somehow I also enjoy the fact that our in-game score is now almost even with BGN. West Point + Forbidden Palace + Rifling did give us quite a few points. BGN should be able to snowball ahead and also increase the score gap again, but at the moment we are still competitive. TBS has also jumped ahead of dtay and Krovice in score and I think he has a fair chance of maintaining a Top 3 position for the rest of the game.

Heh, I've just been watching as our score ticks closer and closer to his over the last few turns... Drafting is going to ruin that .

Flossie has three more turns of being a production powerhouse. That'll nearly get us this Observatory.

Levee afterwards?

180 hammers is going to take an age with one mine and three plains cottages. Will wealth pay off better?

Hazelnut will only make 87 hammers a turn after the golden age.

I need to check our factory analysis from the PB13 thread. (not only for Hazelnut, but that's a city where it is an interesting option)

Trouble is factories come just when we can start building Infantry. Getting the next level of unit early is usually better than getting them cheaper... There are a few cities that cry out for an early Factory, but we should perhaps head for Plastics and 3 Gorges to coincide with a larger wave of builds once they give 75% hammer bonus.

After Steam Power-Assembly Line we almost certainly want Steel-Railroad-Combustion-Artillery for Destroyers, then Sci Meth-Biology for economy (earlier if we can delay destroyers), then Physics-Electricity-Industrialisation-Plastics. That's some way in the future isn't it...

Note that Zucchini doesn't have a river so won't be able to build 3 Gorges Dam. Carrot is our best prospect otherwise, but will need to grow very quick to have the required hammers in 30-40 turns so I think we should farm every farmable tile (including a couple of villages).

There's a lot of stuff to build in Herbs, but to keep the fish we need to keep building Culture.

Not too long anymore though as we passed the 100-culture mark (I think)

We did, it'll get religion soon to keep putting 41 culture into the tile, but if we don't produce any culture in the city it puts 0 into the tile.

I think now the real question is: How many do we want/need to draft. 70 drafts = 140 pop points = a pretty damn big investment. In my previous thinking I've been speculating with 40-ish drafts. We have still time to think about what's the right number and also prioritize those pop points as they are not of equal value.

As with the GP plan I just went for max possible drafts - we can dial things back as required and we'll have a better idea of what we want in ten turns time. I'd like to have Barracks in draft cities and I'd prefer to just be losing coastal tiles from cities without much infrastructure. We have a bunch of cities that need MP if they're going to draft happily, so when we have a layer of modern units in our coastal cities the ancient trash can move inland.

Btw,
would it be time to finally offer cease-fire to dtay? Krovice don't seem like they are doing anything and we have probably hurt dtay enough. Is there a chance that pindicator would join in and attack again, when does his peace treaty expire? Leaving the war early might be beneficial and in best case it could make dtay attack Krovice? I would not count on that though as cease fire probably does not give him enough security and dtay does not really strike me as a suicide-revenge type of guy. How do you guys see it? OH? THH? retep?

Blockading dtay gives us security in that he can't consolidate navy in the south. A cease fire allows him to work more coastal tiles and seafood, but unless we can guarantee his gratitude and undying friendship it would make me more paranoid...