Plan was to go after
Buddhism, Conf. and Tao since these only require copper for its major culture buildings. But a slight deviation due to AI not founding Hindu ended up causing me both Conf and Tao. The plan went to hell from there.
After the first session, I just about gave up. I kept on missing Just about every wonder I tried. Got
Hindu and Buddhist religions, only to
miss CoL by about 20 turns and Philo by 1 turn. Finally built the Colosus and thought "about time".
Capital was built
on the spot. Second culture city was selected to be on the coast to SW with iron (pleasent to find - thanks J), Corn and sheep with many cottageable tiles. But the
second city was founded further west with gold in the fat cross and elephants and many plains tiles. This was to be a production city. In the hind site, I sould have gone to the next river and made it my third culture city. GP farm was built on rice to south in order to get both fish. The third culture city was founded on the west side of the river and with rice but only one hill. Poor choice.
Converted Biz to hindu and we stayed in it until the end. Since both Toku (untill merchantilism) and Nappy were annoyed, we teched all the way to Gunpowder before shutting down science. Oh yeah, we never met the catherine person others are talking about. Just got the message "Russian Civilization was destroyed".
Poor choice with the 100% culture building (40 turns to build it in 3rd LC city), It should have gone to the second LC city and used the 10+ GA in the GP farm which had over 15000 culture in it, but this is my first culture game in vanilla C4.
At the end of the game we had
9 cities total and was able to sustain 90% culture. As a matter of fact every two turn it was set at 100% in honor of the mm master who created the game. We ended up with third religion when the captured barb city got
Christianity. So the three cities had 3.5, 2.5 and 2.5 multiplier.
Ran Cast and Paci most of the game except to do some rushing. Switched to FS in 1280 AD(T188), but teched till 1480 AD(T208) at 80%-100%. Game ended in 1920 AD. I am thrilled to say the least since this is my first Immortal game I won

(and completed). First 2, just gave up and others were a fast death i could not even quit.
When
Nappy had his hands full as he was racing toward space, it was Tokugava he was after.....phew. Thank goodness his relations stay at -2 for different religions.
Anyways I am replaying the game to see what would have happened if i went with the GP farm.