OK Thanks Sweetacshon. I must admit I have not been following the thread else I'd have see you built the Academy and learned Education - although I would not have known that you used another GS for Ed. Anyway you did the right things.
Perugia (up)
BLubmuz (on deck)
Doom Train
BrianS
Merum
Sweetacshon (resting)
@Merum - the link you are looking for is paragraph 4) of the
Religions in Emperor and Above - Observations and Thoughts Stategy Article from the War Academy. However, I think I misinterpreted this slightly as it seems you have to have the same religion as the civ you DoW on. In our game if we convert to Buddhism then when we attack Chine, Mao should convert to Islam

. I have to admit I have not actually tried this but still think we should give it a go.
Once we have our basic buildings for each city specialism and are into unit cranking mode we should consider switching to Theocracy and perhaps Police State. I think we should stay with Bureaucracy rather than Vassalage.
Plan
I will
edit this as I look around the save some more
1) Gear up for war on HC as we seem to be agreed that is the best strategy.
2) Beef up the defences of the inner cities.
edit l do not think HC has any ports on the inner sea so we can DoW on HC before the defenses are completed.
3) Ensure our production cities have forge and barracks where needed then churn out units
4) Continue building up our infrastructure in sci/gold/GP cities
5) Keep the missionaries flowing.
edit Gifting to the AI will speed this up and maximise chance of success.
6)
Look at when and what to start as the next tech. edit I can MM Liberalism down to 6 turns I think it is worth a gamble cos we can then take Communism as the free tech and adopt State Property.
7) Settle new city as planned and take Gaul
8) Hatty and Bismarck will renegotiate some resource for cash deals in our favour
9) Sell our world map around.
Medium Term Plan
A) Get KK to DoW on our enemies
B) Convert Bismarck to Christianity (or Hindu) and get him to DoW on Hatty (close borders)
C) Convert Japan to Buddhism and DoW on China who should then convert to Islam
D) Research MT and Chemistry
Q Can I have some help on converting Bismarck and KK. How many of their cities need to be Christian for them to agree to convert and remain Christian. Is it simply having more Christian cities than other religions? Sweetacshon said that Bismarck has Buddhism in all cities so we have to convert all. That would be for him to remain Christian wouldn't it so we can actually make the last few conversions once he is Christian - yes or no?
A see post by Doom Train.
Q How long should we hold onto Astronomy?
A from Merum - until HC is broken and we have converted Bismarck.
Madrid
Next turn it grows an unhappy person and has 50 hammers left on the galleon so I will whip 1 pop for 88 hammers thanks to the forge and start the NE.
We need Hindu and Taoist temples so we can generate a Great Prophet. I'll try and get Kyoto, Surf n Turf
and Santiago to oblige.