I need some advice

[CivMonger]

I'm playing a game with continents, random civ. I satrted off with the japanese and me and the chinese shared a reasonable size land, not bad for a standard map really. Anyway, I was building quickly and doing really well, and I noticed that we both had UU's to replace knights. Then I decided the Chinese had to go.:slay: I built a barracks and upgraded some warriors (40 gold each ) and built some swordsman. I have pretty much totally eradicated the chinese, they have 2 cities left, which are being surrounded by swordsman. I have stopped building military, cause my is enough to kill them, and I am getting close to my limit (in despot). I plan on killing off my swordsman once the chinese are killed, since I won't need them later, and they will cost me a lot of upkeep. I would then build some horsemen cause they can be upgraded to samurai, which I think I'll use to solve my Zulu problem to the island south of me:die!: The thing is, I'm a few turns from monarchy, and I could go for republic after that, once my 20 turns of peace with China guys are up, I'm gonna kill him. I have about 60 military units, so that would be expensive under republic. Should I stay in monarchy till I get a good economy going? Stay in monarchy and get samurai and kill zulus? I'm just not sure exactly what I should do. any help would be appreciated. I could always stay at peace and not splatter the blood of zulus accross the land, but that would limit me to a big chunk of land instead of a massively huge one, and I'm greedy and self-centered, so I like lots for me. Guess what I'm getting at is what should I do governnment wise, and should I give the Zulu :midfinger and beat them into oblivion? Or just try to get along:love2: Then again, the chinese and zulu haven't met each other, so I'm going to charge the zulu a bunch for the comms right before I :rocket2: blast the chinese. thanks for the help.

[joycem10]

if your the japanese you're religious and can switch between governments in 1 turn. switch between monarchy and republic as needed.

[CivMonger]

thanks for the advice. btw, I love smilies, could you yell?