Thanks shaandore and kirkav
--Granary: yeah that was my bad, I need to put those into early build queue.
--Archer/warrior rush: my first one ever - Khmer was so close and I had 5 units so I went for it. Game "12" (thread started with "11" and this is "13") was a random start of Mongols continents with Portugal 12 spaces west. I looked for horses but had none, and did a successful axe rush on Joao (had ~10 axes; he built Stonehenge...). Then I turned my army south to Suleiman and nailed him but by then was in serious debt (first strikes of my units). Then Shaka was left of my continent and I couldn't recover. I should play that one again; I overexpanded and had too much military, plus I should have hit Shaka first before Suleiman.
--Wonders: I had production coming out of my ears this game so took them, but I agree that it would be best to play without wonders to break the habit/addiction.
--Still have to work on 1) city specialization, and 2) doing everything earlier (e.g. in absolute time and relative to AI)
Thanks all for reviewing - have tried to follow VoiceofUnreason's guide for getting advice.
--Granary: yeah that was my bad, I need to put those into early build queue.
--Archer/warrior rush: my first one ever - Khmer was so close and I had 5 units so I went for it. Game "12" (thread started with "11" and this is "13") was a random start of Mongols continents with Portugal 12 spaces west. I looked for horses but had none, and did a successful axe rush on Joao (had ~10 axes; he built Stonehenge...). Then I turned my army south to Suleiman and nailed him but by then was in serious debt (first strikes of my units). Then Shaka was left of my continent and I couldn't recover. I should play that one again; I overexpanded and had too much military, plus I should have hit Shaka first before Suleiman.
--Wonders: I had production coming out of my ears this game so took them, but I agree that it would be best to play without wonders to break the habit/addiction.
--Still have to work on 1) city specialization, and 2) doing everything earlier (e.g. in absolute time and relative to AI)
Thanks all for reviewing - have tried to follow VoiceofUnreason's guide for getting advice.