I concur that it was a great effort by all you guys involved in the testing/planning.
Nice work... we acomplished an important goal. Now... what is the next goal?
Woo hoo!
Drona is a great location for the religion - more culture to prevent Toku from taking back the corn.
Spread of Hinduism would have been better there. If we have the chance, a hindu mission for that purpose would be useful. Christianity does not give culture when we run Hinduism. Temple and monastary do, though, and we can build the temple as soon as practical. With OR, monastaries are not needed yet. At present, Drona is the best site for a GP Farm, and if we put a shrine there its going to mess up GA pool.
Drona would be a better cottage legend, though. That, plus Bolly. Maybe 2s from the copper for the third.
But I don't see a really stellar GP farm. If we farmed Drona, it has 17xs food (before Biology), so maybe 8 artists. It has more production than a GPfarm needs, so it can do double duty. The corn will not be a problem longterm.
I'd like to see what Hammer and Toku's capitols look like, though, before we decide where to farm. Japanese and Babylon capitol cities should be pretty good. Hammergawa's got the GW, so his capitol will give useless GSpies, though.
I guess I just want to point out that in a culture victory, the dot-mapping needs to be done to maximize cottages in legendary cities, and maximize food in the GP Farm. Resources are for secondary cities. Happiness resources will be traded away. The GPFarm can go legend, but then it needs to be really good because it needs to be bombed to legendary, which means a lot more GA.
I should also point out that land-grabbing is kinda pointless here. I count four cities, with room for 3-4 more temple cities secured. One more city in the north is more than adequate, because we will flip Toku's corn city, and we might even want to forcibly remove a GP farm site from someone. So we've REX'd enough, really. One more in the north, and then the expansion pace should not exceed our ability to build the necessary infra and get the techs needed asap. 6 cities by 1AD is fine. So take the R out of REX, is my advice.
If we are going military on somebody, then we will over-build if we REX more, and slow down the pace at which we get the needed techs and infra done.
IOW, I would cancel the settler in Bolly and start the AP there right now. We want Bolly to grow back, anyhow.
Key techs would be: #1 Music (free artist, + Sistines), #2 Liberalism for Nationalism (Hermitage, Free Speech). #3 Religion-granting techs (CoL + Philo), and Paper for USankore, maybe. Monarchy for interim happiness. Drama for Globe(in GPFarm). Banking is useful for Mercantilism which will make all the Toku's like us (and give a free artist in every city).
I'd use the free Christian missionary to spread to Bolly. No point waiting.
So lets remember that we are on a culture-mission, and we don't need to land-grab. We should build enough military to discourage the Tokus, and to eventually cripple them for good.