Looking at religion, I think I can plump for Confucianism now. I have Buddhism in WB only, so I can't get that spread. Hinduism is in a billion cities already and shrined, and I don't want to prop up OH, or give him the opportunity to cripple my tenuous happiness with a war dec if we are the same religion. Judiasm I could run with, and I could spread it from 3S which is a good production city already. But Confucianism is already spread in Kalamazoo and MtK so it's in an even better position to be spread from two decent cities and I probably have to plan to take over superjm anyway; at the very least the are up to Mids (not that OT4E would ever let me keep those cities, because they have the shrine and Mids, so I need to prepare for two wars, one after the other, and let OT4E make the first move).
And if worst comes to worst, I just raze the shrine, but there are some awesome tactical options that involve an Inchon/Inchoff style attack with an artist bomb at Ravenna if OT4E was really fast on reaching superjms core where I could trap his army. I'll look at grabbing Meditation for monasteries (but this does make the HBR grab look a bit stupid, but that's the effect of losing graphs).
And if worst comes to worst, I just raze the shrine, but there are some awesome tactical options that involve an Inchon/Inchoff style attack with an artist bomb at Ravenna if OT4E was really fast on reaching superjms core where I could trap his army. I'll look at grabbing Meditation for monasteries (but this does make the HBR grab look a bit stupid, but that's the effect of losing graphs).