How to play Burma?

I only just reached 1300 elo and i've been pretty successful with burma vs melee civs. Either been lucky or been able to interpolate opposing start position using relics which means i usually have more time to do push deer. And m@a +spears into pikes and monks has been super successful.

But still not too sure how to leverage their civ bonuses vs ranged civs. Especially britons. The lack of armour really starts to hurt in castle age and just snowballs in imperial. Feels like eles are too hard to attain in 1v1 leaving their average knights into cavalier to handle archer balls.

And britons especially are able to pressure too much before i can get enough kts to handle their xbow corner stacking blob.