Executive summary: I SIP’d, started a worker and switched to a WB when fishing came in. Tech path then went AH > mining > BW > masonry > sailing > mysticism > writing and I settled a city to grab some stone and build the mids in the capital. Currently trying to finish the GLH and am four turns from writing, researching which has been aided by failure gold from the GW. Met Gilgamesh and I don’t think he’s alone.
Opening thoughts: Thought about settling 1W and cottaging the FPs but have begun to realise that the low happy cap at higher levels can mean that raw hammers are preferable to the combination of early cottaging and relying on the whip (of non-cottage tiles) for production. If avoiding early cottages in favour of hammers, it didn’t seem clear to me that there was sufficient incentive to burn a turn to move 1W onto a forested grassland tile, so I SIP’d. Noticing jungle off to the NE, I sent the starting warrior off to explore SE, mindful of my recent experience in the latest Nobles Club game where what I thought was a dead end turned out to be a narrow strip of land, behind which was an AI. Capital started on a worker (working a FP) and researching fishing for the clams.
Early moves: After borders popped and fishing finished, I halted the capital’s production of a worker and commenced a WB, changing the tile worked to the forested plains hill. Starting warrior explored SE and found stone but no AI. Research was directed to AH to access the pigs (and see if horses were nearby). WB finished and clams were worked whilst capital recommenced worker. Worker started work on the pigs and research was directed to mining to access the hammers from the plains hill. Capital built a warrior whilst growing.
Worker mined plains hill and then farmed a FP whilst research was directed toward BW (to enable chopping and search for copper when AH revealed no nearby horses). Thankfully, plains hill revealed copper after finishing BW. Capital finished warrior (working pigs, clams and mined plains hill) and built another whilst growing onto (what would become a farmed) FP. First warrior was sent to what would be stone city. Commenced research into masonry to access the stone. Worker finished farming the FP and commenced road into stone city. Capital finished second warrior (to garrison capital) and started on settler for stone city.
Stone city was settled so worker roaded in stone and built a quarry. Stone city then built a warrior for fogbusting the city’s SW, working forested plains (until stone was quarried). Stone city’s production was then directed into GW for failure gold and the city’s garrison moved outside the city to fogbust stone city’s NE. The capital meanwhile built two axes for fogbusting and then another worker (to accelerate chopping). This meant the capital was working unimproved tiles for a time, but I figured this was better than risking being overrun by barbs.
With masonry researched and the stone quarried, both workers chopped into the mids and mined the capital’s hills whilst research was directed into sailing. (Ideally, chops would’ve gone into the GLH which I find goes earlier but no sailing meant they went into the mids instead.) Once sailing was researched, one chop got redirected into a lighthouse (to benefit from the organized bonus, so it was finished in one turn – thanks again for your OP Dhoomstriker
). Noticing that the GLH still hadn’t gone by that stage, I put the next turn’s production after the lighthouse got built into the GLH, because I recall reading somewhere on the forum that the AI scans everyone to see if anyone has started a wonder before deciding if an AI will build it. With that in mind, I thought that if the GLH hadn’t actually been started yet, this might delay them building it. At worst, I thought doing this might give me some failure gold. After investing one turn of hammers into the GLH, future hammers and chops were directed back into the mids until they were completed.
With sailing researched meanwhile, tech went mysticism to enable a monument to be built in stone city for a border pop. Whilst researching mysticism, someone finished the GW so I received some failure gold to help research. Decided at that point to tech writing next to grab early access to a library and some representation boosted scientists.
Once the mids came in, I recommenced building the GLH – again, at worst, this will provide some failure gold. I also revolted into slavery and representation; I wonder however if this should’ve been done after I finished making my run at the GLH.
Workers are now set to make further chops into the GLH and, having finished it’s monument, I’ve put a WB into stone city’s build queue. Not sure if this is right but it reflects my belief that two factors suggest that Gilgamesh is not alone: (i) he’s become Hindu but hasn’t founded the religion and (ii) Mehmed has EP on him. The plan is therefore to finish the WB, OB with Gilgamesh and see who else is out there.
),collected cash from great wall, pyramids weren't a priority but i will complete them
) and let me know what I can do to improve. 
