Help needed against Montezuma

Hello,

Help, I'm playing a slightly isolated start on Prince, I'm desperately out of practice and I've found Montezuma on a bigger continent to my north, unfortunately within Galley Range.

I've attached a save, I was planning a rifle rush driven by the great library and lightbulbing techs but my continent suffers from a lack of decent city sites so thats not viable.

I think I need to give Montezuma a kicking and steal his land, so that I have extra expansion room ready for when I meet the rest of the AIs.(My other problem is I haven't thought about how to win this game - probably going to have to be diplo or spaceship now :-))

So how do I kick Monte? Is it as easy as use barracks (my unit city) to churn out catapults and everywhere else churning out axes then launching them Monte or do Ineed a slight more sophisticated approach?

I think my priorities are 1) Take the city 1NW of the horse tile
2)Take Monte's capital of "his" continent
3) take stck and decide whether to consolidate of press the assault?

I think I'm doing OK but I'm aware my infrastructure and tech paths are a bit screwed, in fact it might even be better if I wait for maces, anyway advice please.

Thanks

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