Quote Originally Posted by Aderik View Post
Conquering and abandoning, since there is only a ten city limit, does not break the rules as it is a player made manevuer. Also it's not all that cruel when you factor in that the players can only do it so often, it costs troops and time to first take over a city. If they're lucky enough to find an inactive opponent that won't fight back, well, kudos to them.
In an alliance vs. alliance war, you might not want to keep a captured city that's deep in enemy territory, and far from your own cluster of cities. So...capture/abandon weakens the enemy, and does not put the capturing player at undue risk. It's definitely a valid strategy.