Free influence exploit?

[Fagar]

Yes it's nice and cosy then isn't it.
With a nice little message saying you and your allies have conquered the province and because you have the larger force the province gets handed over to you.
Another nice little wrought..

In this situation I prefer if the rebels stay and fight.
I like actually going to battle in this situation, sit back let my 'ally' take the brunt of the damage, maybe join in with a few archers where stray arrows take out both troops and then still get the province because of superior numbers but in this situation your ally will lose a lot more numbers than if it were auto-battled

[Martok]

In this situation I prefer if the rebels stay and fight.
I like actually going to battle in this situation, sit back let my 'ally' take the brunt of the damage, maybe join in with a few archers where stray arrows take out both troops and then still get the province because of superior numbers but in this situation your ally will lose a lot more numbers than if it were auto-battled

Indeed. Letting your allies do the lion's share of the fighting against rebels is a hallowed and time-honored tactic in MTW. While I suppose that technically it could be considered a cheesy exploit, I generally have no qualms about employing it, seeings that I always find it suspicious that my "ally" suddenly decided to send an army at the same time I did....

[Fagar]

Spot on Martok.

It is definately cheesy but in our defence I have lost count of the amount of times that that an ally just happens to chooe to invade the same time you do.
At one stage I sussed this out by quick saving the scenario and putting a full stack into the province, and my ally was sending in about 100 more troops.
Well I reloaded the game and only send in 1/2 a stack and guess what, well my ally did the same with about 50 more troops than I.
About 4 different scenarios and every time the ally troops numbers changed but always so they had just a few more men so it is no coincidence the timing of the ally invasion, or the underlying intention behind it.

[Brandy Blue]

Once I waited until my ally was committed to attacking the rebels and then trecherously attacked him from behind, trapping and routing his general, so that he kept running from me toward the rebels, from the rebels toward me, etc, under missle fire the whole time.

It was fun doing that just once for laughs, but I won't do it again. Its not just cheesy, its tripple cheese burger with a size order of cheese curls and a coke to go.

[Fagar]

It sure is, but hey I would have done it too.

Another of my cheesy favourites is to bribe a disloyal general that is currently housed inside a castle. preference here is for a unit 60 only or less and the bigger the fortification the better that way your enemy cannot starve you out and has to assault the castle to get his province back.
There is nothing funnier than commanding the assault and watching as your enemy splashes hundreds if not thousands of troops up against the walls of his own castle!

[Brandy Blue]

I'm not sure, but I think that armies inside castles tend to be a lot more expensive than if they were in the field.

Other than that, I'll take that White Castle cheese burger to go.