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Loved to read your AAR, very entertaining and helps putting my own playstyle into perspective.
About your policies, I think the problem was that you were always annexing cities while following the standard Tradition gameplay. Tradition works with expansion if it is based on puppeting cities, as puppets don't increase the cost of great people (which Tradition focus) and social policies (which Tradition has trouble keeping up as you expand though settlers and annexing cities). And because you were constantly annexating, you had to spend faith on missionaries/inquisitors in multiple cities, even those that still didn't have enough specialist slots to justify your faith in them.
In the end, Autocracy might have been ideal for you due to Police State, which grants +3
Happiness for each Courthouse. This alone might have been enough to solve your unhappiness problem, even when suffering ideology pressure.
Probably with Air Superiority (Autocracy lvl 3 tenet). Free airports in all cities means you only need to capture one city in the other continent (which can be a city-state, instead of a persian city) to start flooding that continent with troops from any of your cities. Air units are also good at dealing with naval units without interception cover, which may give you a safety zone against his navy.
Total War, United Front and Military-Industrial Complex help you to keep up with military production. These tenets might have been what you needed to redirect your economy for this war. Air Superiority itself increases air unit production by 25%.
To actually advance in his lands, only with good luck and blitzkrieg tactics, as his lands are huge enough to delay you until he wins with tourism. Your best bet would be to start your flood in a city close to his best tourism cities.
About your policies, I think the problem was that you were always annexing cities while following the standard Tradition gameplay. Tradition works with expansion if it is based on puppeting cities, as puppets don't increase the cost of great people (which Tradition focus) and social policies (which Tradition has trouble keeping up as you expand though settlers and annexing cities). And because you were constantly annexating, you had to spend faith on missionaries/inquisitors in multiple cities, even those that still didn't have enough specialist slots to justify your faith in them.
In the end, Autocracy might have been ideal for you due to Police State, which grants +3
Happiness for each Courthouse. This alone might have been enough to solve your unhappiness problem, even when suffering ideology pressure.Probably with Air Superiority (Autocracy lvl 3 tenet). Free airports in all cities means you only need to capture one city in the other continent (which can be a city-state, instead of a persian city) to start flooding that continent with troops from any of your cities. Air units are also good at dealing with naval units without interception cover, which may give you a safety zone against his navy.
Total War, United Front and Military-Industrial Complex help you to keep up with military production. These tenets might have been what you needed to redirect your economy for this war. Air Superiority itself increases air unit production by 25%.
To actually advance in his lands, only with good luck and blitzkrieg tactics, as his lands are huge enough to delay you until he wins with tourism. Your best bet would be to start your flood in a city close to his best tourism cities.
