>>2016377
I've never liked score. It feels anticlimactic and the score calculation is far too arcane.
Military usually takes too long unless you ally half the players.
Expansion pretty much requires you to have a bunch of vassals, and I personally hate taking vassals beyond the one obligatory thrall farm if I'm playing a spooky boy.
Magic is usually what I go for because I love magic and I normally focus hard on magic and research.
I've only ever played a seal game once and I got fucked over by a faction I had become overlord of stealing one of my seals which didn't count towards my own seal count.