Thanks for the report, I'll try to log in sometime soon too.
Yeah, this looks like a survive to knights --> profit game. It should match up nicely with our development timeline. I agree with planning a golden age now already (as you mentioned with the prophet). Given how big you're growing your cities I'd imagine relying on natural hammers over whip is better in most cases, and you should pre-build horse archers everywhere (turns into knights in queue upon discovering tech)*. Depending on how early you start the GA/go police state you can have maces/xbows/cats in the queue as well. This way you'll produce a unit per turn everywhere once you get there, even if you're in caste system. And you avoid maintenance for now.
Can we get another great person in time somewhere if we use a GE on engineering?
Remember to have enough workers to reliably workshop everything in time.
*Remember that they start losing hammers after 10 turns, so don't start them too soon either.
Yeah, this looks like a survive to knights --> profit game. It should match up nicely with our development timeline. I agree with planning a golden age now already (as you mentioned with the prophet). Given how big you're growing your cities I'd imagine relying on natural hammers over whip is better in most cases, and you should pre-build horse archers everywhere (turns into knights in queue upon discovering tech)*. Depending on how early you start the GA/go police state you can have maces/xbows/cats in the queue as well. This way you'll produce a unit per turn everywhere once you get there, even if you're in caste system. And you avoid maintenance for now.
Can we get another great person in time somewhere if we use a GE on engineering?
Remember to have enough workers to reliably workshop everything in time.
*Remember that they start losing hammers after 10 turns, so don't start them too soon either.