(Help) Dealing with Peasant Revolts, Uprisings and Converting Faith

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First of all, I am new to CK3, didn't play CK2. I am slowly learning the game, still struggling but not losing everything in a year and improving.

Currently I am trying to unite Spain as Castille, which is going quite well until I have to fight the Muslims.
Taking their Land, almost immediately an Uprising will occur. I now dont take too much directly, only small Parts, and I immediately start to convert faith and increase delevopment and control, with the added bonuses from the lifestyles, I even install a Muslim Duke, but it seemingly does Nothing to stop it. Converting Faith takes Time I know, but 20-30 years with a bishop of 20 or higher is a bit long. Peasant Revolt happens, I am trying to be nice, still enforce demands(for locals pacified) and even let their Leader free. 1 month later, next Revolt Starts.... in the exact same provinces... really? Is there no easier way to stop them? I would gladly appreciate the help, if it can even be helped...

[Graygan]

One of the things you can do is reform the church and change the religion so that it's easier to convert. In my current game it takes a bit over a year to convert those heathen catholics with my 21 faith imam

[Aldon]

In the learning tree (theology) is a perk, which ignors fervor while converting. Must have for spain. Sorry i dont know the englich perk name, but you will find it left side of the theology tree

[Gravora]

An easy way to deal with a rebellion is to capture their leader.

Imprison him and you win.

To find him you have to wait a few days for commanders to load. Once they do you can check each army to see who their commander is. Leader is usually prefaced with the title "Leader" and so is easily identifiable.

Place a rally point near him and rally you army. Move in, defeat him, win.

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So it kinda works now, but what I don't understand is why my vassals wanna create liberty factions for crown authority when they have 100 opinion of me. Sure, lower crown is always good, but why though when they like me? Almost all my vassals with 100 joined, i granted it and now they are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me bc they are taking Spain by themselfes and appoint some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a different faith, that want to be free again

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Ok I just realized I can kick them out nevermind but still annoying

[BoydofZINJ]

There are buildings you can build to increase control. Generally, when you conquer land you lower the control of that land. Lower control means people tend to riot. You can also use your council to increase control on a land. Likewise, different faiths (religions) and different cultures are a problem. Other council members can chance a culture and change the religion of land you own. You will get far fewer revolts if your lands are at or near 100% control with the same culture and same religion as you are. Of course, there are some RNG events - be careful.

[CrUsHeR]

Okay now i also had the honor of witnessing this myself. Started in Ireland 1066, redirected a Crusade to a heretic Aquitaine, and went south to take Iberia piece by piece.

The whole madness started after taking all of Andalusia with one holy war.

"Andalusian Muwalladi Populists formed a faction against you!" is popping up every 2-4 years or so. Who have 100-150% strength each time, and there seems to be no end.


So i started thinking about why it is this bad, and only in Iberia.


The reason why this is so crazy is because of the Muwalladi Faith. This only exists in southern Iberia, and once there are no landed rulers or priests left, their Fervor is constantly at 100%. Capped at 100%, but would probably be 10,000% otherwise.
So basically they are on the brink of being wiped out, and the revolt potential is huge due to several kingdoms worth of levies rebelling against you.

Each county you convert removes it from this revolt potential, though even with Catholic fervor around 50-90%, and the conversion talents from Learning Lifestyle, it might take around 10 years per county. And your vassals probably won't bother because it takes 20-150 years without the talent. So you are looking at approximately 100 years just to remove 10 counties from the rebel faction.

That is why other religions like Ash'ari in Jerusalem are nowhere nearly as dangerous; they have plenty of land and can win holy wars and jihads, keeping their fervor mostly in similar thresholds like Catholics.


The only solution would be to take land in smaller batches, and convert them one by one before moving on to the next.

[JuX]

When dealing with crown authority let them issue demands and accept them, it only costs little prestige and can bring it back up in 20 years and these vassals can't join a faction for 5 years. It's easy play to deal with succession rebellions.

Religious conversion is the easiest. You simply click on your vassals and "demand conversion", long as they don't have specific trait they easily convert, especially if you or your spouse has high diplomacy skills.

For peasantry rebellions convert culture on most developed territories and increase control gain.

[god of being bad at everything]

Its very easy to deal with em personally theyre weak meat

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Originally posted by god of being bad at everything:

Its very easy to deal with em personally theyre weak meat

This Post is a almost a year old and they probably did something about it, but when I wrote that they were almost double my army size, coming every few months and never letting up.
I got the achievement after multiple tries but that was one of my main problems.
(Also those kinds of comments are useless and are generally not helping. Just saying)