(xpost with DS)
Certainly looks promising.
Biggest issue seems to be Toku not willing to OB yet. It seems that if he'd just take merc that he probably would go to pleased and take it.
In any case, I think current troop build up should be heading all towards Japan to be teleported, whether by declaring and peacing out on Japan or by OBing and closing. The latter would be preferrable, if only because it will take only a third of the turns to get into position: from Hangzhou 4 instead of 12 (actually less than 12 because we'd clean up Kagoshima on the way, freeing up some tiles, but still OB would be much quicker obviously). Still we'd need to get ALL England-troops to Hangzhou first, so we have margin for Toku to open borders. Even if we have to declare in the end, we'd still have to wait for our troops to arrive...
On civics: while with our current grand plan we'll need US to rushbuy boats, I'd advocate Police State right now. We won't be settling the galley producing cities for quite some time (especially the English one) and we'll only be building troops meanwhile. Besides, we already have 2 great people ready to launch a GA to switch to US at any moment.
Obviously we should spam cuirs too after we get MT. They seem to be pretty good too especially for Russia. Will we even bother about getting to rifles after MT? Or would it be worthwhile to get astro?
Sengir said:
Small note: a galley costs 25h/unit capacity; a galleon costs 26,67h/unit capacity. If we're only transporting a 1tile river, galleys are better.
The hammer/unit capacity is slightly in favour of sticking to galleys, but marginally so. At least for getting troops faster from our core through the fort at FK towards Russia I think galleons do have a plus. Not a big deal, but as we have to tech something anyway, I wouldn't be unhappy to get astro.
