probably prestigeDiplo 12 [+1] (+1) -> 14 [+1 Art]
As expected, looks like Diplo overflows into art, as people turn excess luxuries into art...but art overflows into diplo, as people get to use excess art as luxuries, so what happens if we have both overflowing??
So next turn we take
Main Proclaim Glory
Sec Policy Change Attack
Sec War mission Nomads
Now Lail, don't take this personally. But. FUCK. THAT. SHIT.We have oodles of Diplo. Put pride aside and spend it. You don't fight the Khan, you just keep your head down and wait for crap nomad succession to solve the problem.
Why would we want to even give them any sort of inkling about iron usage?Keeping it a secret will be really irritating. We might have to start exporting hematite as a dye or something in order to supply a reason for mining it.
We have oodles of Diplo. Put pride aside and spend it. You don't fight the Khan, you just keep your head down and wait for crap nomad succession to solve the problem.
I really don't understand what about 'Nomads unite and decide to wage genocidal war because they view our frontier as a threat' encourages you to make our frontier even larger and harder to secure.Genocide is wrong, but if you want to pursue the extinction of the nomads as an independent politico-economic entity we'll need to expand up to the river, take over the river area to split the nomads in half, and then start pressing either west or east from that base.
I recommend West.