First move was the Jag to the jungle hill west of the mountain. Didn't see anything worthwhile so SiP. Jag scouts W-NW. Build order is Scout, Monument, Jag. Scout moves south and spies a red and yellow border, I think its the Songhai. But no, its Ram! Oh great, I hate that guy; he can be a real pain in the neck later in the game. The Jag in the North meets Gandhi. Oh nice, a good neighbor.
An opportunity to steal Ram's worker presents itself and I take it. My scout almost dies in the process. They both head home and run smack into a new barb camp. The barb warrior kills my Scout and takes the worker. Well now I need to build a military to get the worker back. Another Jag and an Archer should do the trick. By now it looks like we're on a very small continent with Siam and India. I might try to clear the continent before I meet anyone else.
The first Aztec Settler heads north to the Twin Lakes Region for the first expo before Gandhi can get there. Doh, before I get to the desired city location, an Indian Settler appears. He might settle next turn so I am forced to found Teotihuacan where I stand, on a hill sheep on the shore of the larger lake; not the best spot but not terrible.
The Indian Settler heads west toward the other city location I had picked out in the Western Lake District. Decision time, do I attack the Indian Setttler to prevent my other location from being taken? Yes, we're in Jungle and my Jag can kill the Warrior escort so I DoW Gandhi and take his settler. Now I'm at war with both the Civs on my continent. I may as well try to clear it with CB.
As I build my army I try to prevent Ram from coming north - but he sneaks two settlers by my Jag and Archer. I almost kill one but he founds a city on the east coast in the middle of the desert. And I can't catch the other Settler but he looks like he's heading to the spot I had picked out on the coast with a river west of my capital anyway. But no, he founds on a hill one tile away from the coast; comeon Ram. But I can still get the Whales with a work boat from my other city nearby so I might keep the city when I take it.
The offensive begins around T85. I have 3 Jags and 4 CB. I decide to go for the easy city in the desert first. It is captured easily on T90. Then on to the capital. It also falls fairly easily on T103; it seems Ram has failed to build an army. That's where we stand.
I have met two other AI across the sea so I need to decide if I'm going to wipe Ram out and risk the diplo penalty. I'm actually not sure how that penalty works; does it take effect if I have met the other AI, or if Ram has met them? I think he has met one of them but maybe not the other. Well I'm going to take him out regardless; he'll be too much of a pain later, trying to settle cities in the middle of my empire in any old terrible location like he always does.
(I just finished the game.) I settled in place, which pretty much meant I had to go Tradition. And I quickly settled an expo to the northwest by the lakes. The rest of my cities I took from Siam, but I couldn't take his capital right away. 
