So I started this game earlier this morning, been playing for about two and a half hours, gotten through to 1010AD. I've recently been trying to perfect my game on Warlord, to prep to move up onto Noble properly.

It's a Tectonics map, random leaders, I drew Pacal of Maya. Initial explorations showed me to be on a fairly squished continent with four rivals - Gandhi, Kublai Khan, Montezuma, and Mansa.

I gambled on Gandhi and wiped him out shortly after meeting him (his capital was close to mine with nice land), considered gambling on Monty but didn't want to take the risk, and managed to take down Mansa with a surprisingly small strike force (and back-up from Monty).

After that I focused on developing and expanding, dotmapping everything and pumping out cities. Seems I over-focused, though - Kublai Khan declared war on me before I realized our power disparity. I've brought Monty into things, which is distracting him, and a quick bout of whipping protected my capital (bordering on his lands), but he refuses to talk, and I'm not sure I can reliably pull together a threatening army quickly enough without crippling my economy afterwards.

Would anyone here have any suggestions for saving this, or even if I need to save it? I know I occasionally over-think, so I'm wondering if things are as bad as they seem. I'm also curious as to how you people here would do it.

Save attached. Thanks in advance for the help.

In general it is best to provide some screenshots since not everyone is at home and in the position to check the save. Just a tip. ;)

I will check for you in a minute, hold on pls.

Edit: I get some very weird error reports opening your file. It says I need bugmode 3.6 although I have that installed. I don't know how to open your file, sorry. It makes an even stronger point in favor of screenshots...

Huh, you've got the latest BUG Mod installed and it still won't run? :S

That's news to me.

Screenshotting is a little bit tricky - for one, the land in question is half of the total land on a Normal map...