Not much units and total lack of contemporary units like Pikes & Knights - those I ran into few moments later near Kabul.
Uncommonly large number of 3-range tiles where to shoot so no probs here either.
Few units took a swim to get to the right side of Mecca to shoot but other than that no probs. His CAs used my horses and Pacal probably killed few, too.
Beijing took a while but I was quite happy just to kill units as I badly needed the xp. Xian was taken as a hop city to buy units and I was prepared to take & raze St. Petersburg and plant a new city on isthmus just to provide sea access to Moscow but Russian troops were originally more keen on taking Nanjing than defending hence that was not needed.
Sometimes one tile is enough and his land troops are somewhere else killing foreigners which I may have slightly suggested earlier.
Looked worse than it actually was. 3 3rd range tiles were quite enough to take the city as there weren't too many units stealing attention.
Icing on the cake. One turn to kill nearby navy & another to take the city.
Unusually large cities for me hence the happiness issues and I could've used few more hammer tiles. Still well above average start which was further helped by vicinity of Venice.
No surprises here. The one in Commerce was cosmetic. Had I gone with own religion I'd probably have opened Piety and gone for total dom incl. religion but the rare chance of a shortish game was partly too tempting.
Darius was first to open Industrial but I had more techs. Fairly even teching by everyone but Genghis who was already badly beaten when we met.