" have noticed many people find spies useless, so I'm making my favourite tactic public:
Spies: A Weapon Of War.

If you want to take down a province but you are A. too weak, B. Don't wish to be excommed, or C. Don't want to waste troops, make about 7+ spies on a border province(s). Then, even if it's loyalty is 200% it will drop to 0% in one year and hordes of peasants will revolt against them. After about 5 years (if the enemy force is strong) the province will be lost to the peasants. Then you move in and bribe them, wa-la, no wars started, no excom, no needless troops losses.

CAREFUL: If the province has Watch Towers or Border Forts, refrain from targeting it, for in 2 years (If any spies make it across) 700 florins of Mutually Assured Destruction will go down the drain.

Try it out if you haven't already, it pwns. (Great way to keep the Papacy in check)" - Sex-Reflexology

"1:when playing game keep some men back so that when your men that you send in first die you have some kind of back up it works sometimes aqs long as you have a big army:2: At the menu when it ask you if you want to fight always look at the middle of page this will tell you how many men you have and how many they have it is a good way to beat them...... now kick there a$$" - ben mtw pro ex champ