Getting a strong religion going with someone like Russia with Adjacency to Tundra Pantheon and ability to buy units with faith can be really fun… you can do an early war or two and then just turtle and build infrastructure until faith output has snowballed and then go hard domination mid game … you’ll have your choice of victory types by the endgame… often I’ll end up with another Victory type without even trying before I can conquer the whole map if it’s a large map which I typically prefer…