Quote Originally Posted by dismal
Seems pretty expensive to pay an army just to stand around. I tend to go for more productive uses like, say, taking a city.

I generally spend little time worrying about my enemy's economy. Take his cities and his economy is your economy.
Well, I mainly did that when taking on factions with huge economies like Egypt in RTW. The lesser factions didn't need softening up like that. Since it only takes a single unit to block a road, it's not that expensive, and it's something you can do while you're also taking the enemy's cities, one by one.

But if I did, off hand I'd guess a more efficient way to get a bunch of assassins to sabotage to his trade and other buildings. Good for leveling them up anyway.
Oh sure, I did that too. Economic harassment on as many fronts as possible.