I tried a new tactic lately. I shipped practically all my forces over to Italy, leaving only a couple of family members in Epirus and Illyria. I saw some big Macedonian stacks moving into Epirus from the East, so I demolished everything in Ambracia and Epidamnus and moved my whole faction to Italy. Then I used the money gained to train some Samnites in Tarentum. I was expecting the Macedonians to just walk into Ambracia and Epidamnus, but when they saw that I had gone, they just walked off and went back to Macedonia! An interesting experiment, I think.