I found a work around to the bugged villager AI (It's too aggressive towards priests).
(SPOILER ALERT)
1. Move to the right side first
2. Save when ready to convert
3. Convert one villager that is alone
4. Use your converted villager to hit another villager
5. While your villager is being chased keep him moving all the time
6. Start converting all the villagers running after him.
The chariot rush that follows was dealt with 5 galleys and lots of bowmen and axemen on the shallows. Chariot archers then were made to assist when bronze age was researched. Then tower spam everywhere including the shallows.
"To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God." —St John Chrysostom
"When one returns to the Greek; it is like going into a garden of lilies out of some, narrow and dark house." -Oscar Wilde.