Does anyone actually attack the enemies economy?

[Oshidashi]

It has my priority to asassinate enemy targets, but when the odds aren't good enough I blow up their city. Even on VH, every little bit of damage you can do to your enemy helps you defeat him. I'm not sure whats the scale of the damage for the AI, considering their bonus on VH.

[icek]

in this game, with castles and cities system you dont need to put some special efforts to killing enemy's economy. Just take his cities

[doorknobdeity]

Yeah, but those require expensive armies, whereas assassins are only 500 a pop.

[icek]

if you cant afford 1 stack of soldiers then you should focus more on developing your economy than destroying others.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Sacking and demolishing infrastructure = building your economy

[Slaists]

it seems, on vanilla VH, economic warfare results can still be seen. however, one has to wage it on a much broader scale than on medium and hard. the same does not hold true for Lands of Conquer and similar mods that use scripts to "fix" AI's financial situation if any faction runs too low (for example, in my LOC campaign, all AI factions have "boundless wealth" around turn 100) in that case, economic warfare has no meaning and I am not talking about pillaging. as far as pillaging goes: yes, sacking equals "building your own economy" as the pizza guy has mentioned here.

[Lusted]

Well in LTC 3.0 the money script gives a cash boost for every settlement owned, it is not dependent on treasury levels, and you can cripple the ai's economy enough to make the money boost not make up for the deficit. Plus it only applie son H and VH in LTC 3.0.