Basic Multiplayer tips wanted

[Velusion]

Eressil3 said:
Some things I learned the hard way :

- having an early fast expansion in a line can be desastrous. At the end, your army is weakened by this expansion. If you meet no agressive opponent, everything is fine. But if you meet one, he will take all your new conquered provinces one by one since the PD is often not enough to repel him.
And all the gold you wasted on PD means less gold for buying new soldiers...

I agree with everything but this one (though I'm not sure what you mean by "too fast". In my experience it is almost never worth investing in more than 1 PD unless you plan on catching enemy spies/scouts or you *know* you will be attacked in that province. Spend the that PD money on real military units instead.

Also - most of your attacks against indy forces should go off with very minimal losses so it shouldn't really damage your troop count too much. Obviously, sometimes you can't help it but if you are losing significant forces to indy provinces regularly you might be doing something wrong...