The soft answers like 'but what do you feel?' are besides the point. He is not asking us what he should do, but what standards we pose on ourselves.

I don't like the auto-resolving trick, though I have to confess that I have used it once or twice when I was in a tight spot.

I haven't played England yet (or another faction that can use spikes) but I don't see what would be wrong with this tactic. Spies would have seen the enemy army coming from far away, giving ample opportunity to place spikes in front of the door.

Blocking crusades by ships I would not do, since the AI is apparently not clever enough to figure that it should send its own navy to unblock the passage. If it would be I don't see any problem with this tactic.


Another thing I am not proud of is that I have waited out some battles where I was outclassed by the Mongols but had a strategic position on a hill, which caused the Mongols to do their dance trying to lure me to attack them. I knew I would get slaughtered if I fell for it, so I just put the battle on fast and went and got me a drink downstairs and went to the bathroom.