Think I've been just as mean to our people as the ruler before me and as a plus I've been mean to foreign people as well.
Fix some MM and end the turn. More importantly Hammurabi has stone now (well, next turn) so I order the jaguars to prepare for war sooner rather than later.
Turn 145: Willem offers a deal -- feudalism for CS and ~140 gold. I decline as we still have monopoly on CS and Feudalism isn't that useful.
Turn 146: Hammurabi culture bombed Shushan and as a result we've lost some good tiles. I decide to attack this city as well.
This turn also marks the beginning of the war on Babylon as the peace treaty ended.
Not much happening (apart from extreme whipping) until turn 148 when we reach Akkad. The spy is successfull in inciting a revolt and the city is ours at the cost of 1-2 cats and a maceman (died at positive odds
).
It seems the Aztec generals won't have any difficulty funding future war efforts.
Pillaged cottages for ~150 gold.
Pillage Hammurabi's stone on turn 150 and start bombarding Shushan with 2 cats (one with accuracy).
We get a pop-up for the AP on turn 151 but none of the options were of any use at this time (stop the war?! Are you mad!?
)
Make it to Babylon on turn 153 and there is no wall to sabotage so we easily get rid of the cultural defence. The city falls on turn 154 (so does Shushan after some terrible combat) and I decide to stop here. We get a GG for our effort.
Do note that Hammurabi was kind enough to pop a source of gold in the BFC before we took it!!
We will want to get the Forbidden Palace somewhere now to decrease maintenance. I queued it up in Akkad, but personally I'd much rather get a Palace in Babylon and the FP in one of our south-western cities. Babylon has an academy and is incredible for commerce even without cottages! This city can bring in a lot of research under bureaucracy.
I'd continue the war against Hammurabi a little more (at least take the city south of Babylon and Akkad) and then move on to Willem. With War Elephants and maces we have nothing to fear for a long time. Note that Tokugawa became a vassal of Willem this turn.
Annoyingly everyone ended up getting CS at the same time so we haven't been able to trade anything for it but at least the tech pace is very slow.