I am being tempted into DomV, LOL. Early ruins were crap, other than Scout upgrade. Settled W of gold, I hate not getting a hill start, but 3 lux in view from there. Was going to expo hill NE of Sinai, but Monte plopped his stupid city near there - war it is then! Built 1 Scout, bought 2 Archers, I think, very early built a Worker because I decided I was not going to steal them. Very classy of me, I should be wearing a monocle.
Lots of barbs, I also assumed raging barbs was on. I got a ton of units, I have never used a Hand Axe, pretty cool unit! Took Tlatelolco with a small force, then moved onto his cap, and started pounding. It took maybe 3 turns to get Teotihuacan in peace, 6 E of his cap. Happy has been great with perma-alliances with Samarkand and Jerusalem.
Settled in for some wonder-spam... Got Petra t90 and saw Terracotta Army was still open, got that for the first time ever on t99 - 6 units! It could have been 8 if I had planned better, I forgot about a Brute scouting, so upgraded a Warrior to Sword to save money. Also, leaving one Archer would have been awesome. Then built HG. 3 wonders w/o Aristocracy - not optimal play.
So I'm sitting with #1 military, which never happens, and meanwhile Korea is building all these juicy wonders... So I march on over and help myself - Chichen Itza, Colossus, GL, and ... SOZ!!! He went full Honor, but one expo is E across the bay, and the one closer to me had almost no units. 2 turns.
So now I am torn, I am not entirely hated, and could just turtle up with a crazy big Tradition capital (Trad open, Honor open, 3t to finish Trad). My 2 desert expos kind of suck, but one has some river tiles at least. But I am only 2 away from Mil Tradition, and Vienna is ripe. She has swords, using my iron, LOL. 50% penalty, sweet! I know it's Poland who I need to worry about most, but I can't get there in time, and I don't like the route. Ram is my buddy, I bribed him vs Monte when I attacked, I hope to get him against Poland soon. Weird thing, he is 2 (3) into Piety and 2 (3) into Patronage. Pretty weak.
All the religions are near me, plus Pacal, so peaceful spread would be so easy E of me. I went DF, Tithe, Pagodas, Mosques, Itin Preachers (love this combo).
Science sucks, but what else is new - just now finished Lib and started NC in cap.
Sooo, what should I do???