How it went :
got a settler from a hut, so i didn't build any
Used a rather usual for me tight placement for my second city, then remembered I can only have 3, and i had already 2, without knowing where the horses, copper, iron was :crazyeyes:
If i get to try this again, i won't settle the second city this fast!
When i saw that copper and horses were just outside my borders i went on wonder spree (needed the cultural expansion!).
It's been a long time since i played warlords level last time, I didn't remember how easy it was to get all wonders

Most huts gave me scouts, and i forgot there were no barbs , so after a good deal of exploring (!) i did post a few on fog busting

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When i finally was able to build units, i went for chariots, and went after Egypt. Why Egypt? because i saw a lonely worker.
And I missed him! (being rellocated 3 tiles away when declaring war always makes me

).
I rage, i razed Hatty's second city, waited while my units healed, and razed the same city again after a settler rebuilt it
After that, Russia had planted a city right next to mine = easy prey. I razed it, then a few others, and Cathy was dead.
I kept moscow as 3rd city. Good food + forest = rushing possibilities.
From this i gained a lot of workers that started building roads and roads.
I went after Togugawa too with keshiks. Toku dead.
Then I went after England. No more English. Then I went after Freddy. He had some useful techs, so I sued for peace and let him rebuild.
To avoid a lengthy post, let me say that i teched well (suprisingly so, with only 3 cities, and one totally focused on unit production) , since all this razing kept me with high amounts of money = 100% research. I won every race (Music, liberalism, economics), teched to steel and remembered i had no Iron

. To overcome this problem i culture bombed my second city, and could finish the game with grenadiers (upgraded macemen! loads of those), cavalry (just a handful), cannons (a good deal).
I even built a galley to raze the island city
I killed almost every other civ : planned to go for conquest,with last city captured in 1600

, but got a bit lazy in unit building, so fell a bit short (HC and Freddy are alive in 1600).
Afterthoughts:
* If I could try again, i would space my second city a bit more. That was really a bad move.
* I also would go for multiple wars earlier = more units, those wonders where only needed because i had to culturally expand!
* Upgrading units is cool, but you need to be in your cultural borders = plan for it.
* early wars are easier, but killing the neighbours is not a good choice. Sueing for peace with freddy was cool. I razed more german cities than spanish ones, and earned 2 techs (sued for peace 2 times!).
* It's really doable (hey! i did!) to tech to steel, and cannons are great

* mounted units are good for early wars, but after that i used only 1 move units (including elephants).
* march promotions are good, though not game winning. A few marching grenadiers helped a lot speeding my late wars.
* roads everywhere!