You're right about the Beijing culture issue in the west.
Smackster has all the experience around here on settler warfare, but it looks like a good plan to me. Go for it. You have 81 tanks now, so you can probably afford to lose 8 or 9 tanks per city on the six big ones, which probably won't be necessary. So don't be put off if the RNG throws you a couple of bad deals across the rvers. As I said, we aren't going on anywhere from here, and no one awards points for extra tanks left standing.
Smackster has all the experience around here on settler warfare, but it looks like a good plan to me. Go for it. You have 81 tanks now, so you can probably afford to lose 8 or 9 tanks per city on the six big ones, which probably won't be necessary. So don't be put off if the RNG throws you a couple of bad deals across the rvers. As I said, we aren't going on anywhere from here, and no one awards points for extra tanks left standing.