I feel guilty not taking Snaat'y's spot... but even if we could get hindu auto-spread there right away that's 10 turns for a border pop.
40 hammers per missionary is just too much right now.
BTW, I will tell Willem all deals for machinery are off, should I ask if they want to sell techs to us for half price? What if we research animal husbandry?
This is why tile-yields are on
I am already pre-chopping on the new main-land, so we get a wb in the new city as soon as it's founded. The settler moved in the galley this turn, so next turn it unloads, and the turn after that it settles and already has a WB finished in the que.
I will try to rapid-expand that chunk of land toward Carthage. Puts us quite a bit closer to his capital, hehe.
I'm good with one of their players(robi d). As soon as we officially meet them i can send a note, just let me know if you have any ideas what do we need.