I am more pleased with my game, but am pretty much resigned to 2nd place.
I now have 9 cities, WF starts in 6 turns, but I will have only 5-6 workshops. Happy has been an issue off and on, so I am even building Zoos, and only have Gardens in my cap. Not good.
The Seige Towers were pretty fun, I think I was gifted 4 total. I was about to take Dido's Hippo in the NW when I finally decided to ask for it in peace, ka-ching! I always forget to do that. I have been in one long war with Monte - after pushing him back from my cap I stationed troops around Almaty and just picked them off in the marshes. I have 1 Log/Range XB and 1 Log with no Honor. Soon to get my 3rd GG, I burned one against Dido.
Poc has 9x my pop and 3x my production, 12% tech lead, full Trad and Liberty and 2 (3) in Honor, GW, Rifles, everything. He is now settling my continent too. I have only met 9 CS - my G Admiral has only met 3 CS, LOL.
I have Liberty, and 3 Piety (love Theocracy with rel building spam). I am tempted to go 2 more to reform with To the Glory Of God as I will have almost 100 fpt, but that means super-delayed Secularism. Can't win w/o that ASAP.
Since I focused cities on Rel bldgs, then happy, and I've had to limit growth, so missing Granaries and Libraries a lot, sheesh. Hardly any Aqueducts. Yet since I took Choral Music I need 5 followers, LOL. Monte's religion spread everywhere, but part of why I'm not ending the war is his cheap Missionary waves. I must have killed 8-12. Tables are turning as I am GPing everything now until Modern Era.
I think it would be fun to take him out - he has had a huge mil tech lead, but was late to get XB's. My ST are losing worth as he now has Castles. No good approaches head-on.
I'm sitting on a GE - I wanted to use it on Ironworks, but that is a long way off. I could use it on Grand Temple now, hmmmm. At the rate Poc is teching I don't know if Eiffel will be there. He has proposed Science Funding - I don't recall seeing an AI do that for a long time.
I am debating trying for WF gold - it seems like a longshot, and will just delay workshops that much more. I still want to settle SE of cap. I need more workers. I finally have enough cash to buy desert hill tiles in Venice. NW's will take 15 turns, ouch. I'm rambling...