I also play this game
and u dont hafta send ur troops all the way home for food, just pillage someone elses farms?
I love it when u can get a spy workin.... i was playin Highlands, married my prince off to a French wench... turned my prince into a spy, infiltrated France, assassinated the king and took over an entire country without having to send my troops anywhere!
Another game had a spy as the most experienced enemy marshal, that enemies king died without heirs and even tho my spy was locked up by some other country he became king! I paid his ransom, then made him hand over the country to me lol.
I always play the earliest time period, on the middle difficulty, at the moment i started as sicily. I now control all of the italian peninsula, all of north africa, all of spain and am pushin into france.
i cannot for the life of me understand why u cannot replenish in an already captured city? cant say ive ever had that prob :-/