
But damn, settler eot38 feels slow.


What inefficiencies did you have with settler eot37? I'm not that worried about stacking whip happiness, we should not be yet in position to whip our capital too often anyways.
I have mostly went with a 2nd wb + warrior in the capital after the settler. Granary is pretty expensive, but I would love to see your granary continuation at some point if you think that's superior to other choices!
In the 2nd city I have normally went with the WB first combined with some kind of worker build. We want a 3rd fishing boat early in place so that we have fish netted immediately when we settle our "commerce city". Yes, we want to get gold hooked-up, but it's still a 0-food tile, which means that we don't want to work it immediately. I think our capital can also wait a while for the +1 happy since it will be mostly in no-growth mode pushing out workers and settlers. But yeah, you are correct, we want barracks (monument) pretty soon into our 2nd city.
I'm undecided with regards to our scout move, flip a coin!
