Cities on the other continent

[TimBentley]

We'll be ready to invade Japan soon, and there we'll have the opportunity to claim our Babylonian, English (by originality, although both are now Japanese), and Japanese cities.

I don't see a way to show the attachments in another post so they're big enough to view, so look at this post for useful screenshots.

My current thought is to capture Samarra or Eulbar, Oxford, and Osaka, with the forbidden palace in Oxford. I'll do more detailed analysis later.

 

[Furiey]

It's not easily seen from the screenshot, but Osaka has 10 BGs around it....

 

[TimBentley]

With these numbers, I'm assuming cities at size 20, with a MGL-rushed FP in Oxford.

Oxford: 2 extra food, 34s, 58g (64 with commercial dock)
corruption: 18% without courthouse (28s, 42g), 10% with courthouse (31s, 52g), 0% with court and police

Samarra: 4 extra food, 34s, 55g (60 with commercial dock)
corruption: 39% without courthouse (24s, 39g), 25% with court (26s, 41g), 17% with police (28s, 46g)

Eulbar: 4 extra food, 29s, 57g (65 with commercial dock)
corruption: 45%, 28%, 19%
I stopped here, since it seems worse than Samarra

Osaka: 2 extra food, 44s, 52g (56 with commercial dock)
corruption: 36% (28s, 37g), 24% (33s ,40g), 17% (37s ,43g)

Kyoto: 0 extra food (size 19), 42s, 55g
corruption: 30% (29s, 38g), 21% (33s, 43g), 16% (35s, 46g)

Kagoshima: 1 extra food, 50s, 61g
corruption: 30% (35s, 43g), 21% (39s, 48g), 17% (41s, 51g)

So I would go with Oxford, Samarra, and Kagoshima (a screenshot of which is below).

 

[Furiey]

Thanks for the numbers!

I agree with Oxford (with the Forbidden Palace) and Samarra (with the Spices), but think I would still go for Osaka (hard to give up those BGs) or Kyoto (probably a better choice of the 2) to make it easier to claim the Ivory. Unfortunately Kagoshima will just claim more spices, and I would prefer to sacrifice a little production/income to hava a more secure claim on the ivory as well.

 

[TimBentley]

Maybe I should have weeded out all but the candidates that have been mentioned; the poll is here.