OK-things are pretty quiet here--don't blame people for losing interest as not too exciting from here on but I do plan to finish.
We left off just about to begin our war against Freddie.
We'll declare and hope he brings his mobile force after Persepolis and lets us take it out on our territory.
We have a northern force and a larger southern force, both are cannon and drafted rifles.
1525 We declare war on Freddie.
We take Bremen the next turn after reducing.
Freddies SOD is heading north--I'm going to try and ambush it.
Unfortunately we don't get a shot at Freddie's stack. Our strength is pretty overpowering so we charge straight ahead.
He charges us and we kill about a dozen units w/o a loss.
We advance on Berlin and Dortmund and next turn take out about 10 units.
We capture Dortmund and attack Berlin (which is unfortunately on a hill):
total losses so far: 1 rifle and one cannon.
Berlin has Chicken Itza--no good to us and only a slight help as we have lots of cannon and are reducing cities anyway.
I get a GG and decide to settle in Susa with the HE. Maybe I should've made the medic, but this allows me to get 5XP cannon out.
We make a trade:
that'll let us get cav in action.
Bismark steals gunpowder. That'll let him upgrade to curassiers--fortunately we've killed off a lot of knights.
Fortunately the AI does not use curassiers properly--it'll turtle in cities rather than attack my SOD and kill the cannons.
A little late to help much but good to see the AI using its spies anyway.
1570 steam engine in--assembly line.
We take Munich:
we attack Cologne and don't have enough units--it'll fall next turn.
Now that Freddie's mobile force is gone, we have 3 attack groups working with several of our healer chariots.
We take Hanover, then Dusseldorf and Essen and Cuman.
Another GG is born.
At 1600 we have a few unhappy citizens, still running 0% culture, and Freddie is down to 5 cities and will capitulate. Since we can finish him in around 10-12 turns that's the better play.
Losses to date vs. Freddie 5 rifle, 7 cannon and a dog soldier (going for CR3).
Freddie loses: 10 Jumbo, 14 Cat, 8 Sword, 12 mace, 2 pike, 3 musket, 22LB, 7 XB, 13 Knight, 15 Cuirassier, 4 treb and a few ships.
We also start spreading the AP religion-Christianity. We don't want to have an AP accident and there is some value to be able to influence resolutions as well (plus the happy).
We draft our last unit and take free speech:
We lose our only spy--I have just had terrible luck with espionage lately and have pretty much abandoned it.
Frankfurt falls, then Duisberg. Duisberg is pretty crappy but we keep it anyway. Don't want any gaps on the continent.
We get an AP resolution and vote a city of Justinian's to Ramesses. He's been vetoing this but this time he votes no and it passes.
We capture Leipzig.
We get Assembly line and start on railroad.
A final civic switch at the end of the war:
since we have the SOL and a large empire I pick rep over US.
We get a scientist and it's time to say goodbye to the parth and Glib
With the capture of Stuttgart the war is over:
We make another trade:
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff77/ungy_2007/Civ4ScreenShot0166.jpg
And leave it for here.
We left off just about to begin our war against Freddie.
We'll declare and hope he brings his mobile force after Persepolis and lets us take it out on our territory.
We have a northern force and a larger southern force, both are cannon and drafted rifles.
1525 We declare war on Freddie.
We take Bremen the next turn after reducing.
Freddies SOD is heading north--I'm going to try and ambush it.
Unfortunately we don't get a shot at Freddie's stack. Our strength is pretty overpowering so we charge straight ahead.
He charges us and we kill about a dozen units w/o a loss.
We advance on Berlin and Dortmund and next turn take out about 10 units.
We capture Dortmund and attack Berlin (which is unfortunately on a hill):
total losses so far: 1 rifle and one cannon.
Berlin has Chicken Itza--no good to us and only a slight help as we have lots of cannon and are reducing cities anyway.
I get a GG and decide to settle in Susa with the HE. Maybe I should've made the medic, but this allows me to get 5XP cannon out.
We make a trade:
that'll let us get cav in action.
Bismark steals gunpowder. That'll let him upgrade to curassiers--fortunately we've killed off a lot of knights.
Fortunately the AI does not use curassiers properly--it'll turtle in cities rather than attack my SOD and kill the cannons.
A little late to help much but good to see the AI using its spies anyway.
1570 steam engine in--assembly line.
We take Munich:
we attack Cologne and don't have enough units--it'll fall next turn.
Now that Freddie's mobile force is gone, we have 3 attack groups working with several of our healer chariots.
We take Hanover, then Dusseldorf and Essen and Cuman.
Another GG is born.
At 1600 we have a few unhappy citizens, still running 0% culture, and Freddie is down to 5 cities and will capitulate. Since we can finish him in around 10-12 turns that's the better play.
Losses to date vs. Freddie 5 rifle, 7 cannon and a dog soldier (going for CR3).
Freddie loses: 10 Jumbo, 14 Cat, 8 Sword, 12 mace, 2 pike, 3 musket, 22LB, 7 XB, 13 Knight, 15 Cuirassier, 4 treb and a few ships.
We also start spreading the AP religion-Christianity. We don't want to have an AP accident and there is some value to be able to influence resolutions as well (plus the happy).
We draft our last unit and take free speech:
We lose our only spy--I have just had terrible luck with espionage lately and have pretty much abandoned it.
Frankfurt falls, then Duisberg. Duisberg is pretty crappy but we keep it anyway. Don't want any gaps on the continent.
We get an AP resolution and vote a city of Justinian's to Ramesses. He's been vetoing this but this time he votes no and it passes.
We capture Leipzig.
We get Assembly line and start on railroad.
A final civic switch at the end of the war:
since we have the SOL and a large empire I pick rep over US.
We get a scientist and it's time to say goodbye to the parth and Glib
With the capture of Stuttgart the war is over:
We make another trade:
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff77/ungy_2007/Civ4ScreenShot0166.jpg
And leave it for here.
It's just that the game looks like it's onto mop-up so there's not really much room for advice. You now have a big continent so just stream on through to a space launch unless you want to try the dreaded overseas invasion. If you decide to go for domination, then we may start to chip in with advice again 
