I have made a number of mistakes and had terrible luck, but the game has been interesting to say the least! Ruins were mostly horrible, no Ram upgrades. I went E first, took out Ethiopia pretty easily, but kept Harar which affected happiness. I also lost a Ram and HA. Fully denounced, except by Mor who I hadn't met. Babylon fell easily, but he later got a religion, so I took Assad as well (more happy issues). Wailed on Poland, then DOW'd Mor, eliminated Poland, eliminated Mor, eliminated Babylon. I got several cities in peace which I razed. Messing around so long in the E really set me back! Constant Barb camps appearing, if I wait I never get any CS quests, so have some HAs around to clean them up.
Since Shaka hit Renn t100 I sort of gave up on the W, I had already been double DOW'd by him and Korea - so I started building some infrastructure and started NC for Arty. I had already built happy buildings, instead of just pumping out units, which is what you need to do with Attila. I had also laid down 2 Citadels, one to get 2 new lux SW of my cap, and one 2 tiles NW to weaken Impis, which never came (just Spears and Cats). Clearly he could have been rolled easily early. I wasn't able to bribe any wars, but eventually got Shaka to DOW Poc and Korea in a peace deal. Took Moson Kahni with GW easily with the help of Shaka, then DOW'd him t143. My veterans finally showed up, I should have had 2-3X the green troops to take him on...
Burned another Citadel for a killing floor S of Moson Kahni, and then moved S and W. Shaka started spamming cities at this point, such a pain, the rough terrain on this map has been terrible. Took 2 more expos of his, destroyed his Heroic Epic SW of Wellington! He then gave me 3 cities in peace, including 2 of his 3 core cities - yes! Game is basically over now, depends on if Korea has his UU waiting.
All the E cities have been crap, I got a total of one building in my first 3 conquests. I have left most puppeted to save on happy, but will soon annex and start pumping Knights, riding by Kilimanjaro for Alt Training on the way. My veteran units are so much better than green ones without it.
I think I have 11 points so far. I didn't get a road between my 2 core cities until t125, LOL! This has been my worst IAG by far.