Khmer 1.18 Gameplay Help?

[Sovietof17]

I've been working on the Khmer 1.18 for a while. While it has 3 UHVS on the surface, it has more than that reeally, so lets look at what you need to do by what year

You spawn at 50 AD
By 600 AD... you need 2000 culture
By 1200 AD... you need 12,000 culture, and an average of 12 pop, Wat Preah Prishunolok, and 4 Buddhist Sanghas and 4 Hindu Ashrams
By 1400 AD... you need an average 15 city pop, and Angkor must be the most populous city in the world

Well, this is pretty tough, specificallly I'm finding the 12 pop and 12000 culture req at 1200 AD hard.

I'm really not sure what to do here - whipping will get the monasteries done, but at cost to UHV2 and UHV3
12,000 culture is also really tough... That's a lot of artists

You then have constant incursions coming at your territory, starting with Swordsmen [Mons something] and then mostly War Elephants stacked with 2 longbowmen.

Here's what I'm doing right now

Research path - Generalship, then Click civil service in the chart
1. Get the theater online asap for the artist before 600AD. I can't imagine getting 2000 culture in 55 turns otherwise?
2. After the theater comes online, start whipping and developing the ivory for Barracks, Stables, and then Ballista Elephants
3. After I have 4 ballista elephants, after dealing with a receent stack of invaders and healing, I conquer the independent city [usually 4 archers] next to the iron
4. I then make 2 settlers and found Ayuuthaya and O Keo. The elephants go to Ayutthea to defend. 1 elephant stays back in the ne city to defend
5. I build population boosting things first, culture second, prioritizing the monasteries. Some will need to be whipped before 1200 AD
6. Build the wat in the capital
7. Usually GG at this point because pop is short (avg=10 or 11) and culture is short (forgot what)

 

[banzay13]

You can settle city near iron, instead conquer it late in game. Build settler right at start, as ircc

 

[Maggy_domain]

Also there's a tile at the border with Burma where barbarians always spam. That's the only one, put an archer on it and you won't have a single barbarian. This + founding the indy city immediately makes the UHVs trivial. No need to build troops, Vietnam protects you from China.

 

[Temujin8k]

It looks like this is the tile, but I can't send my Archer or Swordsman there...

EDIT: Gonna try going Generalship first for that Ballista Elephant. I hope this works for me...

 

[a pen-dragon]

It looks like this is the tile, but I can't send my Archer or Swordsman there...

The tile for what?

If you mean the tile where barbarians spawn, it is not. They spawn 1S (and 3S, too, I think) of that tile.

 

[Temujin8k]

Yeah, I found it out myself yesterday as well. Blocking the tile Maggy_domain mentioned did not work.