Catholic Vs Desert

[macsen rufus]

I will occasionally totally trash a province, but only in extremis.

Typical example, I'm playing a small faction, big faction next door keeps bugging me, and is growing faster than me.... no way can I engage in a big drawn out war, but I can put together enough of an army to maybe win one battle, yet know I won't be able to afford a garrison afterwards. THEN I will hit the bully in the 'nads, preferably by chasing the king out of his prime military province. I then will trash all his troop-raising infrastructure and any happiness buildings, then let him have the smoking ruins back, assuming he can get back in before the inevitable rebellion... inevitable because I screw taxes right up to bleeding point, and pull out all troops.... Even when I do this though, I always leave economic infrastructure in place. It's also usually at a point early in the game when I can use a big wodge of cash NOW, more than I could use one extra province's income. Generally though, I normally will only take provinces I intend to keep, and then want as much infrastructure as possible left standing

[sharpshooter]

I just wanted to add one more unit to the catholic list - Bulgarian Brigands. Good in the desert, more useful than Archers. I said something about them on another thread - then noticed this one. Often available as Mercs in the run up to the desert battles if your faction doesn't get them in Bulgaria.