I'd have changed Cuzco's settler to granary and sent the worker to irrigate wheat or chop a forrest frist but it would have been tough to time a chop as support. So I stayed with the settler first and let the worker finish his mining. But then I irrigated wheat and chopped a forest to set up a 4-turn-settler-factory.
I figured I'd like to have 10 towns for unit support and production. All should build barracks first. Quality over quantity.
I started research at max on Iron Working, later Writing, Philosophy (Mapmaking for free), and literature. Also got Code of Laws and Horseback Riding from huts and traded for Maths and Construction to be tech broker and cash in all money and workers available. I also wanted some wars to promote some units, maybe get a leader (I planned to astonish the community with a question how they would score
).
My chasqui scout spotted unprotected greek town Sparta and immediately stepped in (after trading techs of course). For peace I later got a tech (?) and money. But before, the counter attack started my Golden Age
with two towns in despotism...
(just slightly better than completely forgetting to start it
)
Cuzco spit out settlers and all other towns barracks and warriors till Iron was connected. I had like 30 warriors to upgrade and had calculated I could get the needed 1800g to upgrade them.
From turn 80 I also started whipping more units. I ended up with 13 towns, 10 of them size 1
In wars against Aztecs I lost four vet swords
Bottom line: 84 swords(13 reg, 66 vet, 5 elite), 7 spears (all reg) and 1 vet warrior should be enough to finally grab athens with horses.
Somebody check the combat computer about our chances against two reg hoplites
swords (A:3, D:2) 5 points
regular: 13 ==> 13 x 3 x 5 = 195
veteran: 66 ==> 66 x 4 x 5 = 1320
elite : 5 ==> 5 x 5 x 5 = 125
spears (A:1, D:2) 3 points
regular: 7 ==> 7 x 3 x 3 = 63
warrior (A:1, D:1) 2 points
veteran: 1 ==> 1 x 4 x 2 = 8
alltogether 1711 combat points.
This game was real fun!!
@Nata: What You seemed to ignore are the upkeep costs which imo prefers the trained swordman by far!