The original strategy still seems to work for me. But Vikings is more of a babysitting settlement if you want to do it fast. You have to be there at the 5h or 10h collections. Anything longer and you wont make it. I also keep to the 12 expansions and working on two goods at a time with two goods building for each, 4x total. I get up to 10-12 shrines by moving all huts off the roads. When Markets come along, I go two of them with 2-4 shrines (sometimes need an additional shack or two to the 5 huts). I finish nearly all goods before building out the next one. There's a catch though, you need to get enough research done to get the Market done fast as the next quest can stop you if you make all your horns first. So get the Market to get to the next quest Q14 Gather 60 Horns.
If you get all the goods done, you can then go full on diplomacy to unlock everything, sell all the culture, then simply build & sell the last few buildings to get to the last quest. You should still have 2-4 wool farms which you can sell, add in the 3 other goods buildings and complete it. If the Wool is very small, I'll save the last beast hunter's production by moving it off the road. Same with the wool, last few collections I'll do slow in case a 4x pops up and completes it. Then I'll also move the wool farm off the road.
But a lot to getting it done is being there to collect on time and restarting your coin production. Early game is moving your shacks off the roads to get as many shrines going as possible. But sometimes it's also where the impediments are and how you build around them and expand. Too thin and you run into wool farm issues, too narrow and road issues creep in. So keeping it as square as possible makes your swapping a bit easier.
