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This really goes under espionage, but we don't have a category for that. (Probably a good thing since it wouldn't be very large.) 
I'll set up the scenario. C3C - Myself, Greece and Germany share a very large continent - of which I have about 2/3 of it. It was still large enough for both of them to have a good size empire - about 20 - 25 cities each. I haven't counted my cities, but let's just say that many of them have a 2 at the end of the name. (I don't rename them.) Anyway....
When Greece pulled a sneak attack, I took three of her cities and she begged for peace. As the Arabians, I didn't yet have my UU (or GA) and so, writing their name in my little red book, brokered a reasonable peace settlement. (Read they gave me money.)
Once I found, secured and connected the horses, my UU was ready ... and Greece was waiting. I acquired Cavalry quickly through some good deals and, after building 5 or 6 UUs, built many Cavs. I declared war and struck with my UU. Hello GA! A couple of my UU's went elite, so I didn't upgrade them to Cavs hoping to get a GL. Never did. :mad:
I captured a couple more cities and, since my people were getting too unhappy, had to settle for peace again. A real bummer, but I knew there would be another time....
A short time later, ol' Alex must've been pretty peaved and started diss'n Germany - which led to war. Cool! I'll sit back and watch to see what happens and increase my research rate towards Tanks and get some spies planted. Because of a relatively small border, mine was sealed off from either of them crossing. Oh yeah! Greece was between myself and Germany. Hehe.
After a while, Germany made significant headway and captured a Greek town very close to one of the ones I had captured (Athens) and, even though he only had riflemen, was too close for me. By now, I had tanks - a few of them and was just itching to get me a GL. After contemplating an out-and-out attack, I decided against it since the "just taken" city wasn't within good striking distance (mountains and hills on my side), but was ripe for the taking. If I could capture it though, I had a sufficient amount of full-health Calvary that could get there that turn and defend the city (probably) until other units two moves away could get there. One problem, I didn't know what kind of units were on the other side - nor how many - but the best they could be is riflemen and not that many since Greece and Germany had a very long border.
I had successfully planted a spy (earlier) in Greece and Germany. So, I figured why not give it a try. The town was a size three and shouldn't cost too much. Shift-E - select Germany - select Initiate Propaganda - select the town - execute - wam! bam! Hello! For a measely 167 gold, I had me a town defended by one regular infantry, and shortly thereafter - 12 Calvary (unfortified). Germany had 6 riflemen and a spearman which would have enter the city on the next turn. Woo hoo! And those Greeks were more than glad to have me there - freeing them of their oppressors!
Next turn, that old German coot captured another Greek town close to another I had captured then moved deeper into my non-barred territory (since the take-over). Now that wasn't nice! So, I did the same thing with the other town (and got it), moved in several more units (more than enough) and then politely demanded that he leave my territory. He must've been drunk with something, because he declared war. Big mistake - for him. Good for me. Because of him, I now have two armies (and the Heroic Epic), am slowly but surely closing him in and "shrinking" the size of the border between he and I. In the process, Greece is down to 5 cities and Germany is down to 4 or 5.
That's the first time I've ever been able to use propaganda successfully - in civ3.
The other continent now only has the Carthiginians and Russians - down from them, Spain and the Mongols. This should be interesting!
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