The Financier | Reyna

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While this Governor is named “The Financier” I cannot honestly say that her upgrades will truly help you excluding specific situations. All of her bonuses are going to be extremely Civ-dependant or situation dependent or not within your control however she does apply a strong bonus towards a late Cultural Victory in a themed city as well as a mid game power spike via a "Raina Triangle" or Raina Diamond with her second upgrade, Harbor Master

Land Acquisition

Useful to grab tiles in a specific city as soon as possible instead of purchasing them early, especially if you're wanting to grab tiles further out without purchasing them

Harbormaster

This upgrade is likely Raina's best. You can use it to make a "Raina Triangle as shown below. Properly set up and combined with the civic cards Town Charters and Naval Infrastructure you can get a coastal city with 26+ SPT from your Harbor/Commercial hub combination during a Golden Age in which you take the dedication Free Inquiry

Foreign Exchange

The wording on this makes me quite hesitant to even give it a Medium Rating because it gives gold to Foreign trade routes “passing through” especially considering the nerfs to trade route availability AND this is going to be dependent on a source of income that is not within your control BUT if you do get +3 gold per foreign trade routes going TO this city then this is a potentially strong source of gold

Tax Collector

An extremely good source of gold in any city 8+ population

Contractor

Because of when you’re going to be using this and the raw gold it takes to purchase the districts in question AND the time it takes for the Financier to establish just so you’ll be able to use this benefit are all major points against its usefulness. BUT the biggest strike against this is that its most useful point in the game comes at a time where you’re going to be focusing on upgrading units for defense or using purchasing strategies which require large sums of gold…which this also takes

Curator

This is for a tourism victory, I would only recommend taking this if you have a city with as many wonders which have great work slots as possible and a themed art museum

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