@ Duckweed+kossin:
1. About Delhi's whipping (Duckweed): I thought it through and now I think whipping a missionary is better than a barrack. It's cheaper than barrack so we get more overflow, and it's useful in the very short future. I provide two options with the missionary: a) spread Confu to the Dear city, it will pay back very soon because Granary+LH+Forge or library is soon to be whipped; b) spread Confu to Aksum. Zara's got only one city with Budha, I guess it's enough to convert him into Confu with two missionaries (another one for the wheat city). Thus we avoid of irritating the whole Budha party if the war plan is launched (though I'm not yet convinced that a war is necessary).
Lastly, the missionaries are needed sooner or later because all our cities should be running the State Religion when the victory is achieved according to the victory conditions.
2. T161 at Varan (DW): That's the turn when the tree is down. So we can't 2-pop whip the Forge but 3-pop at the spot.
3. T157 at Pata (DW): Good. Will whip the LH and start Hindu Missionary here.
4. About GP: Yes it occurs to me that bulbing Edu would be better. To add to what Duck said, earlier Edu = earlier Universities = more beaker. About GE, if we don't settle it, HG would be much less strategic so we may have to revise the plan. I prefer to settle it because I'm convinced we'll still have multiple occasions to pop another.
5. T157/158 in Vijay (kossin): OK to whipped it next turn.
Something about the war plan:
Zara is the weakest rival (3 cities), that being said that it's not that lucrative to loose a DoW chance on him though it's that easy to defeat him. We've only got two chances of DoW so I prefer to spend them on big targets to small ones: for one thing to get better landmass; for another to generate more GG. For me, Toku+Justine/Saladin+Toku are good targets.
Another thinking about the war plan is that the war will bring additional costs of delaying tech/infra. Just like kossin suggests, starting a HE in Vijay instead of Libra/Uni as well as spamming units/barrack will certainly delay the growth (cottages+pops+GP+wonders) and infra (Uni+OX+Oberser). Together with the loss of DoW chance, loss of beakers (Construction+ Machinery), loss of traderoad income, damage to diplo, etc, I doubt that the limited profit from the war against Zara could possibly cover it. (May I point out that Zara has only 3 cities so we can only capture 2 according to the victory conditions. Izzy has more cities so more input into war preparation and more time spent on the war, so more delay of infra + more loss from traderoads)
Edit: to make it clearer, I'm not disagreeing to the war plan against Zara+Izzy. But the moment and the measure being suggested are not very valid to me.
In response to Duck's opinion about Cuirassier rush, we can think it differently: a) this rush comes relatively later so we can have a better infra to gain more from infra bonus; b) The conquest will be quicker and easier so we avoid some loss. c) We can grab a better landmass + more pillages from cities. In these conditions the loss of beakers for MT and Gunpowder may be covered.
@ All:
I think it's appropriate to split my set into two because if a GS is poped, the micro would be greatly changed because of acceleration of Edu.
