the sneaky conquest
Do you allways get the despicable, unthrustworthy etc.. trait even tough you don't start the wars, or never betrayed an ally?
I found a way of conquest, that allows you to keep the reliable trait and as a bonus, makes it easy to pacify the conquered territories easy, and, you don't have to be at war with anyone!
this might have been mentioned before (but it's such a big forum) and it's impossible that I'm the only one doing this or knowing this, but for those who hadn't thought of this.
agents! Agents are wonderfull, spies cause unrest in cities they infiltrate, Assasins destroy all those buildings that keep the people happy, and your priests/immams convert the people to your religion all this combined is a verry verry verry powerfull weapon.
I was playing as the moors and decided Spain had to be mine, but I didn't want to be at war with anyone, so what did I do?
I looked at what territory I wanted first, then I trained Imams whilst I took some rebel provinces by force (no body dislikes you for attacking rebels), in another city I trained my spies (that city would eventually get thieves guild wich is even better) and in a third city assasins (that city would get hashashins guild making the assasins better trained from the start) then when it was time I sent all agents at the same time to the province I wanted, The Imams convert, the Assasins sabotage (first the religious buildings to maximise the effect of your immams), and the spies stir unrest within 2 to 4 turns the city revolts and becomes a rebel city! This was the oportune moment I was waiting for! My armed forces who were waiting at the border (my side of the border, can't have any transgression now can we) rush in, and take the rebel settlement. Result: I gain a settlement without losing trade rights, or being at war and whilst every faction loses it's good name, you simply go from mixed to reliable, and at reliable you remain!
I drove the spanish out of spain and into southern France this way, I destroyed the portugese this way as even capital cities are not safe from this kind of warfare, and I've conquered every city on the Brittish Islands this way, (the fortresses are taking longer). Don't feel bad about using this sneaky tactic, as the AI uses agents against you all the time, if you have a city and it was green all the time, and suddenly it's blue and then red, and you suddenly see lots of squalor unrest, chances are the AI has put a spy in your settlement
EDIT: I forgot to mention the amount of imams I send is 10, the amount of spies is 9 and the amount of assasins is also about 9
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