When I must win or i face distatrous defeats.... especially against a big superpower that send a full stack army every turns when I only had 3 small and nicely swept cities... remember the Hayasdan? I got to resort in auto_win if the Seleukids sent a hell of troops before I could grow up...

*) nb: I only forced to resort in auto_win when I play hayasdan, saka, or pontos... another factions got a fair starting army to play with... so I can play quite fairl...

to prevent piracy, I always group my ship in a one stack fleets...... realistic in my opinion, because one wooden trireme can't take 1800 men in reality.... ()