Just a few thoughts about the beginning:
* I think it is better to stay with (only) one axe smith in the very beginning. Buy the "2 axes" expansion, produce more axes to unlock shrines, then buy the "7 axes" expansion and build more shacks and shrines. build up a stock of approx. 700 copper coins before building the second axe smith
* Whenever being in a situation that you run out of copper coins: Sell all production buildings which cannot be restarted and replace them with shacks and Srines to build up a stock of a few hundred copper coins.
* DON'T buy an expansion for SEVENTY TWO axes when you can produce horns at the same space and unlock the expansion with only 27 horns!! (see part six)
BTW: In my first city I bought all for diamonds expansion (yes... wasted diamonds) and finished 8 days before the time limit.
In my second settlement I plan to do without using diamonds at all. My intended strategy is:
* built one axe smith and as many shacks as possible
* bought the first expansion after the first production cycle and built two more shacks
* unlocked shrines - replaced as many shacks as possible with shrines
* bought the second expansion after next production cycle; built one shack and one shrine there
* built up a stock of ~800 copper coins
* removed two or three shacks/shrines to build a second axe smith
* unlocked Mead breweries as soon as posible
--> for my next two techs I need a sum of 18 axes and 132 Mead:
* removed both axe smiths and built two mead breweries as soon as I had 18 axes in stock <-- my current status after 3 days with 5 production cycles/day
screenshot as of a few moments ago:
planned next steps:
* buy 2 expansions for a total of 9 Mead and fill up with shacks and shrines
* produce more mead to unlock the next two techs
* replace mead breweries by beast hunters for at least a cycle to buy two more expansions for a total of 9 horns
* etc. (not yet fully planned)