Just played a Qin game with Zhou already collapsed. Don't found on spawning point, 1 go north, settle 1N from stone, 1 go east, settle coast near copper.
Get a great scholar during GA.
Conquer Yan, it has iron.
Defend against barb until you build the Great Wall.
Work on non-river tiles first, Yellow River will flood once and destroy all improvements. Well this is historical.
Build Great Granary, Harappans seldom lives. After you secure stone, all should be easy.
Against Han: They didn't move out their army, and collapsed automatically turns after. Laughable.
UHV #3: you need 80 units, so research toward coinage, and mass SCOUT (16 hammer). That's boring!