Stealthy Gandalf

[Lex]

or what about the opposite.. taking restless worshipers with high dominion and droping castles strategically in the heart of enemy's empires. add alot of looting to cripple their economies, and maybe some disease, and even hit and run tactics if your castle(s) aren't under seige by very pissed off opponent(s). After a short while your army would come in a take out the much weakened empire.

I mean, in modern warfare, you always cripple a nation's economy first, then you cripple their infrastructure, all the while you're spreading propaganda throughout their population, and then finally you send in your troops. Anyone trying to take out an opponent without going through those steps is exerting alot more effort for the same prize.

Unfortunatly, the only way I can think of to counter this would be to build castles on every province to protect yourself (which from reading older threads, not everyone is fond of). that or have emergency response forces that are fast enough to catch a raiding intruder (ie SC with teleport). I'm sure there are other ways to counter this too...