On the mounting of Descents, and their application.

[athanaric]

AKA Viking raids. One of my favourite moves. I just recently razed Qart Hadast and Atiqa with the Casse, killing Xanthippos on the way. This gave me the opportunity to build two extensive trade port upgrades at once...

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Yes I figured that tactics out myself. I fought three wars with the Sabeans, and in the first two I did exactly this. In the third war I was so fed up that I decided to conquer them.

[Hax]

Also I'd recommend not destroying the Government buildings as the AI doesn't know how to build these properly so when a city revolts back to them they usually end up building Gov 4 (this happened in my romani game with Kart Hadast) causing problems with the rebuilding process.

That's really strange. The script should automatically place the highest available government building. Now that I think of it, I guess that only goes when the settlement is conquered. Hm..

[Cute Wolf]

I always done this in midgame to give me long lasting fun.... (surely I can hold them, but leaving an AI faction with 1 vulnerable region and you are not big enough will leave me with buffer regions after... it was very suitable to me as Epeiros, to let the Romaioi keep their Mediolanium, Patavium, and Massalia, so the big Avernii empire can't hit me directly afterwards - I just too often to raid Massalia and then let the romaioi capture it back)

[DaciaJC]

Yup, I have employed this strategy to great effect in my Getai campaign, first taking the middle third of the Italic Peninsula (and then giving the cities to my allies, the Epeirotes), and sweeping down into Sicily, and then abandoning the entire place.

On another expedition, I traveled across the Mediterranean (from Hellas to the Nile Delta) in order to raze a few Ptolemaioc Huge Cities. Boarded my fleet, and sent them west to devastate Kart-Hadast and a few other Carthaginian settlements.

At the moment, I am contemplating a third major raid, this time aimed at Salamis, Antiocheia, Sidon, and Damaskos.

[SwissBarbar]

I did it in my Carthag campaign. When the Romans sent stack after stack against Messana (always 1 Stack besieging the city and 5-6 waiting behind, so if the first stack is not successful, they can jump in and continue the siege in the same turn), I raided all of Italy which drew them back to stone age ... finally still got to kill them.