It would likely be much sooner than that
...but it looks like the AI has no idea of what its doing so we should be safe for now. For some reason their capital is a settlement? This sounds like a bug our game has generated.
Anyways, on with the show:
General plan is to pump out as many priests of leaves as possible, along with enough workers to build on them before Q's turn ends. We also have a serious happiness problem. And of course, whatever possible to exploit the elven strengths.
I switch some builds to temples and plan on rushing the theater of dreams. I guess we missed out on Kithra Kyriel, but hopefully we can still get Yavin. Fyrdwell requires deer, I am going to try to get us some.
Used the Great Sage to build an Academy, engineer starts a golden age. Great Commander joins a little army I have marching north.
I changed our trade with the Amurites to sheep/cotton for pearls/17gpt. Open borders with Hippus, since I plan on pushing through their lands to get the deer.
We finish taxes and move on to Engineering, it seems to be the tech that will help us the most right now.
Hippus asks for a defensive pact...nah.
We construct the guild of hammers.
We capture the barbarian city of Kabhalg for the deer! We don't necessarily need to KEEP this city after we build the Fyrdwell...although building the Angel capital here sounds keen. I have a Thane en-route to pop the culture and a worker building a road to the town.
I stop a little early at turn 236 (Brian or Q you can use them) as its the last turn of the golden age and we didn't really decide on what civics we were going with. As we are moving to a cottage economy, I suggest:
Republic
Consumption
Apprenticeship
Foreign Trade
Undercouncil
The Guild of Nine is almost complete. Yes I started teching Corruption of Spirit - mostly for the holy city. The more I think about it, the more I think it is a perfect idea for us to build the Mecurian Gate in our new town of Kabhalg. We have access to plenty of Engineers to make this happen, we will get access to Deer and Fur, and it won't affect our maintenance.
Below are pictures of the empire.