I had quite a bit of military towards the end, Washington was presenting an extreme risk to my existence. It put my victory off by several turns for sure. I was forced to pump out about 10 of those late game tank infantry units(I forget what they are called). and several anti air defense units(forget what they are called too, the ones that shoot down attacking air units within 2 tiles of its position). I could have easily wont by turn 250-260 if not for that. I was far ahead of tech by modern era. When the game started I was given 3 or 4 trade routes from surrounding civs, boosting my early science to 40 or 50 by early as turn 20 or 30~. That's all you'll get out of me on details though. The only city states I was able to utilize were 2 culture cs's i think? maybe? i know only 2 cs's were my allies, and maybe some friendly, but most gold was spent on snow balling to public schools or aluminum factories(what ever that factory is that requires aluminum), I also got ahead in tech enough to get statue of liberty, a huge factor in my early success. Honestly I didn't get much use out of any of siam's abilities most of the game, except the wat is (okay) i guess, i didn't have much forest to utilize it.