My origal thought was that there's a nearby faith NW so I started SH way too late and missed it and since I didn't have a plan B I was like Cartman, Screw this, I'm going home but ultimately decided to just kill stuff instead. Plan C was to follow the original Total Domination Challenges but as I already messed up the start I though some bonus rules would make things more lively.
optional extras:
-no peace deals
-no annexing
-no puppets apart from capitals, other cities razed immediately
-allied with all CSs
-no Nationals apart from NC
-no Education
-no tech stealing
-no Workshops (none built)
-all own cities starved to 1 pop or as close as possible (at the end I had 4,2,2,1.1.1)
Stole a worker from Askia on T11 and from Assur few turns later. Early ruins were pop,spearman, cult, map & money. Since I was looking for the NW I messed the start badly and ~T50 decided what to do with the game.
Left side of Liberty for starters with 4 cities & then full Honor starting with left side.
T79 DoF with Venice, T90 DoF with Ethiopia to get some badly needed cash before properly starting the wars as first city I took was Gao T97.
NC T97 & CS T108 so I was fairly late by any standard and Honor finished T119.
Askia RIP T139 for which I got quite a few honorary mentions by others. T140 DoW Persia while I was finishing Assyria off hoping that Florence would take their last city but no such luck.
T142 the Inca after settling a platform city near Kilimanjaro. T145 Venice went Renaissance so I put my spy on Kyoto but he never caught anyone in the act.
T148 got bored with Florentine inefficiency and wiped Assyria out most of my Western troops banging on Persian doors.
T159 RIP Persia and Attila was getting annoyed with me so I DoWed him on T161 by which point he supposedly had the largest army though he had been constantly at war with either Darius or Haile for most of the game.
T163 RIP the Inca while half of Eastern army was already heading for Venice.
T165 I had most of CSs by Haile's border allied so I DoWed him & Venice hoping that CSs would do something useful but no, the lazy cretins were totally uninterested in wars. The same turn I planted a troll city 4 tiles away from Venice just get past his GW by GG bombing which worked nicely but taking the city down took a while.
T187 RIP Venice & T199 RIP Ethiopia both without any trouble nor did I expect any.
By this time I was slowly recovering from double digit negative happiness, still losing money & looking for the last 2 CSs while waiting my cities to starve. I didn't much think of the starvation process so I took ages for my capital to empty it's surplus bucket which slowed the process down for some 10 turns.
T206 my cities were as small as they'd get so I allied the maritime CSs and took Attila's court.
Hardly a tough game by any means but interesting middle part as I was constantly over the unit limit which meant crappy production and huge upkeep cost which isn't a desirable combo.
The original plan of overwhelming religion got suffocated but I managed finally a pantheon T52 and religion around T100 which I spread for my own cities for production bonus and eventually spawned a couple of prophets to do some CSs quests. Didn't even check what other religions were about. Venice, the Inca & Persia went Piety from the start while Songhai & Assyria Honor possibly due to my early DoW.