I've been playing the game a bit more, and realised I made a few mistakes earlier:
Technician and doctor's experience seems to not make any difference to their skill.
I had a bad technician give better advice than one with 82% experience.
The trap is required to catch meat. Usually the "Wild West" cities with the wooden huts are where you can harvest meat. You don't need dogs to be there to get meat, so you may as well kill them all.
The clothing does seem to offer some form of protection, but not a great deal.
Also, when you are "trapping" an adversary, do not let him get access to a main city. Basically I think that in the main cities they will trade their items for food and water and so basically live for around 50 turns. If necessary abandon a location to let them get into it and progress to the next location, then reoccupy that location to trap them between two lcoations you own.
It's worthwhile to hang around until they die, as otherwise they will probably conquer one of your areas while you're away and all your hard work will be undone.
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