Calling God Back

[magnate]

Like preaching him out. If he's only got that one province left, why haven't you built temples in every adjacent province and put 20 priests on "preach" in the fortress province itself?

Of course, if it's AE and you have 20 priests, you'll just go in and banish him (that's once you've taken down the walls with gate cleavers et al.). If it's SG then this is certainly the way to go. Nobody's dominion can survive being totally surrounded with temples and preached to death ....

CC

[The Panther]

You hit the nail on the head, magnate.

I recall one of my very first SP games where I tried three times to take the Abysian AI capitol against a powerful pretender and got whipped each time.

I then changed strategy and took all AI provinces before sitting on his capitol with my army. I didn't even have to build any temples. Just 4 priests preaching in various provinces and it was over at once. His dominion simply went poof!

That was one lesson I doubt I will ever forget.