Pre-Flight:
Agreeing with the strategy to annex one of our puppets, so I consider the options. Ainwood's TOR will produce around 11 HPT annexing now, but really needs more production tiles. Alan's Apple is much smaller (5 citizens), but has better raw production - but lacks food. Hmm. Leif's Springs is just too small. I go with ainwood's TOR, and our happiness drops to +6. I chagne to production focus (11 hpt) and a courthouse (10 turns).
I mobilize our Great General in Alan's Apple to head down towards Ted's Keep.
IBT:
French Treb bombards a longsword, promoting it.
Turn 181: 1210 AD.
SpaceStation: Treb -> Longsword.
Eastern Front: Ted's Keep
Treb near ted's keep capture worker.
Crossbow moves and attacks, destroying pike.
Second crossbow tries the same with Trebuchet, but only does one damage.
Southern Front: Space Station
Pike destroys retreating french horseman.
Under covering fire from the city, longsword defeats longsword, while second longsword moves to flank trebuchet.
IBT:
We lose pike to 3x bombardment
Complete printing press.
Turn 182: 1220 AD
Long-term, we want to get to Scientific Theory. Gunpowder is on the way, so I choose that (which then gives us an options of metallurgy for cannons, if we can handle a detour).
I buy a desert hill near ainwood's TOR, and start to mine it.
Eastern Front: Ted's Keep
2x crossbow bombard and destroy french Trebuchet.
Set up for assault on avignon.
Southern Front: Space Station
Longsword destroys trebuchet.
IBT:
France asks for peace - he is given a very considered "Get Stuffed" Response. He attacks and badly wounds a longsword, but it earns a promotion.
Capetown steals our worker! Bastard!
Turn 183: 1230 AD
Eastern Front: Ted's Keep
We begin our assault on Avignon, knocking it down to about half-strength. Nappy has abandoned his forces from it, as he sought to counterattack.
Our pincer movement bringing longswords from the south destroys another pike (the longsword heals itself with a promotion).
IBT:
Deals with Cathy end.
Capetown moves to attakc a crossbow, and damages us.
Avignon bombards - largely unsuccessful. French pike attacks our longsword and dies in the process.
Capetown moves into our territory near ted's keep.
We have moved into the lead, score-wise.
Turn 184: 1240 AD
We destroy two capetown units (crossbow near ted's keep, pike near ainwood's tor).
Eastern Front: Assault on Avignon
Bombard it down, and our longsword captures it. It is size two, and has no useful resources, so I elect to raze it (happiness to -2, temporarily).
Catapult captures worker.
I trade marble + 90 gold to Siam for silks, and our happiness is back to +2.
IBT:
Arabia wants us to join a war against Japan. I decline.
Darius completes the forbidden palace.
Cathy enters the rennaisance era.
Avignon is razed, and our happiness is back to +8.
MBR completes a crossbowman, and I start a harbour (+5 production when complete).
Turn 185: 1250 AD
We see a French Musketeer. I retreat our units and regroup for the next assault.
IBT:
Very little.
Turn 186: 1260 AD
Healing.
IBT:
Now two musketeers.
Turn 187: 1270 AD
Carefully stay out of range of musketeers (putting hills and march between vulnerable units). Bombard one with crossbow.
IBT:
Oda want's a research agreement. I agree.
We discover Gunpowder.
A french sword appears with the musketmen - they look like they are trying to flank and head towards ainwood's tor.
Turn 188: 1280 AD
Ted's Keep: Knight => Crossbow.
Two cross bows and a catapult take-down a musketeer.
I elect to pursue Chemistry. It provides cannons (which I love), plus is required for fertilizer (growth).
IBT:
Venice declares war on us, and moves lots of units into our lands. Next message is that Venice is no longer allied to France.
Alex enters the rennaisance era, and a cultural expansion breaks our trade route to Leif Springs, also stopping our trade with Siam.
We lose a catapult to a musketeer.
Turn 189: 1290 AD
First order of business is peace with Venice... Done!
Space Station longsword => Musketman.
Courthouse completed in ainwood's tor. Start Musketman.
Destroy french musketeer near Ted's Keep, a trebuchet near Troyes and another treb near spcae station. Take that Nappy!
IBT:
Nothing.
STATUS
We are seven turns from Chemistry. Happiness is +9 (we're 125 from a golden age - 14 turns at current happiness). We're #1 in literacy, #2 in soldiers, #3 in crop yeild and land.
MBR has just completed a harbour, and is producing 27 HPT. Could rearrange some locked tiles and use it to grow in size faster.
We're still at war with nappy - I have regrouped, and I think we're in a position to move to take either Orleans (my preference) or Troyes.
Looks like you had some good fights. Nice job on the Musketeers. 
