Help salvage my game :)!

[Grimz101]

My game: Large pangea 9 civilizations Prince.
Im Victoria, started game with poor starting position for future expantion i think, started a series of wars against japan, limited success since protective really helped against my axemen (i had no iron), made two stacks to finally take them out, all was going well both stacks get their targets, but then japan became monty's vassal (borders me on the south), monty already had hannibal as his vassal, i managed to repel a invasion force from russia (took the stack about 50 turns to get to my land), but lost a city to monty on my west border fortunatly though the city was size 2 and only there to connect elephants for me, and half its squares in the bfc belonged to mehmed! damn capital culture !

all Japan's and Hannibal's cities near me are taken, leaving them both with 1 city each, which are south west of monty !
Started an invasion on monty and have taken two cities, i can continue the war and if i drag it long enough, i can raze japan and hannibal's last cities, and then beeline for monty's capital, and beat on him till he offers vassal.
But that is not the problem! the problem is i discovered mehmed has cavalry, and i can guess all the other civilizations except me, monty and his vassals are close or have it to!
How can i salvage my game to finish this war favourably, and come out it able to catch up quickly with the other civilizations in tech, and hopefully win a diplomatic , or domination win!

(Space and time victories are turned off)


Attached the save, would appreciate insight on what to do next

Here is a screenshot of the world map

 

[jray]

If you're playing with the 2.08 patch, then I'd say finish off Tokugawa and Hannibal and beeline for Monty's capital and try to vassalize him. The 2.08 patch is important because it assures you your fat cross in the middle of a vassal's territory. Without that, you'd be overwhelmed by Monty's culture and be forced to take several additional cities to make the conquered capital workable.

Then focus on infrastructure and plop Garrison-promoted city defenders at your borders.

 

[cabert]

I can't say much to salvage the game, but I can tell you why you're in a bad shape :
SMALL CITIES
You need to grow your cities better!
gunpowder in 1500+ is late.
It's probably too late.
But if you finish off monty and his band (don't bother with russia and japan for now unless you're facing high motherland issues), start growing, start cottage spamming, you can get fast to redcoats, draft a lot of them and rule the world.