The two thoughts I would have on this board are apothecary/stables/monument village, maximum cycling, you might not want a silver here, might actually open village for this. On the other hand, you can just go straight stables/monument, mebbe with extra village/monument stuff later, but probably not. I expect this is what you want to do, but if you do that, you really don't want to detour for apothecaries. If you want the apothecary, go for it early. So I would think silver/monument, and probably your next billion or so buys are stables - stables over gold really, at least for quite a while, but pick up a platinum or two. At least, that's the general shape I want to go for. Have to worry a touch about getting some stables with no treasure....
