You can read the variant rules for this adventure here.

 http://realmsbeyond.net/civ/c4tourney/adv14.html

The most important rules are that we have to have a religion if it's possible for us to have one, and we have to run hereditary rule the whole game. We get extra credit for not running slavery, but as this is my first game at Emperor level, I'm not prepared to even try that.

So, here's the start location:

Founded Delhi and sent the warrior north to explore. Delhi got to work on a warrior as I put research towards Polytheism. The warrior popped 43g from a hut, and then The Wheel and met a scout of Caesar’s.  My southern warrior finished and Delhi started on a third. Southern warrior popped 42 gold before meeting a scout of Napoleon’s in the icy south.

Hinduism was founded in Delhi and I converted. Then I met Cyrus in the north and my original warrior discovered that Caesar was very very close. 

Given that this was emperor level, I knew I’d have to really get cracking if I wanted to grab some of the resource-rich land in the north. To the south there was a long icy corridor that bottomed out into Napoleon’s heartland. Settling in that direction was not really an attractive option.

After Polytheism it was on to hunting and then fishing. Delhi worked on a settler so I could start claiming land soon. He headed north and founded Bombay by the dyes, ivory and wheat.

Another settler rapidly followed, claiming this jungly site by the gems.

The gems would be culturally contested between me and Caesar, but I was confident of controlling them.   Calcutta and Bangalore followed later.

Other notable events from this period. Genghis demanded horses, which I refused. So did Caesar, and I agreed. I wanted him on good terms. He and Cyrus were my only trading partners, and Alphabet netted me some good techs.

I was pretty nervous about the lack of metals in my territory, so I was pretty excited when one of my offshore scouts spotted this.

I immediately made it a priority to nab this spot. It was a close call too. A Persian galley with a settler in it was like two turns behind my own settler.

I also founded the icy fishing villages of Lahore and Kolhapur.

And the even icier and more fishy fishing village of Jaipur.

After its two fish resources were hooked up, I mined all the ice hills and it actually became a really nice production center and (believe it or not) the location of my Heroic Epic.

I was managing pretty well in the tech race through my own 2^nd ranked GNP plus some good trading with Caesar and Cyrus. My GNP was greatly helped by this.

I was startled to notice that the Great Library still hadn’t been built, so I went for it and landed it, very late.

The next few centuries were spent teching up towards liberalism. My plan was to grab military tradition as the free tech, being first to cavalry, and to then go conquer Napoleon. I reached Liberalism in 1420.