Washington was going to be my first target, but I have a DoF with him... gotta wait for that to expire. Meanwhile he settles 10 cities. He's also staying ahead of me in tech even tho' I got my national college up early and he has all those crappy little cities.
About turn 120 Washington backstabs me; he and Hiawatha declare war. I paid Mongolia to declare war on him, cheap. (Genghis also has a larger army than Washington) But then he doesn't do anything, just took my silver and wished me good luck.
Knights kill elephants and archers in one punch.
He also has about a dozen catapults, and I can only kill one per turn. I've almost finished researching Civil Service. My cities are on hills and Mumbai has walls, but there's no way I can hold them off so I quit. I didn't have any gold for upgrading my archers and spears anyway.
(BTW, I got my pantheon fairly quick but Stone Circles was gone already. So I took the extra hammers one)
Not sure what to try differently. I think negative GPT for a while is what was holding me back the most. I sold some luxes to reverse that, but I had no reserves, and not enough to keep paying my army if I built more units. I can build a replacement elephant or spear in 2 turns, it dies in one.
I may try it again. Build nothing but scouts and elephants and expect most of them to die, but attack Washington *early*. I can build crossbows later to replace the elephants, since they upgrade awkwardly anyway. Any elephants that survive can stay as city garrisons.