[shovah]

i generally try to work myself into a location with as small a number of border showing as possible and then since i always have too much gold late game i build a basic commander at each of these provinces and make them build a castle. i have a small force in each province while the castle is build and once completed i crank up the pd (unless im mict or something in which case i assign a few mages and put taxs to 0 and have them blood hunt)