How to deal with rebels

[RåneRonny]

Could i get any tips to how to deal with rebels. I figured out that i should learn how to work out with rebels when as Muscovy i didn't want to invade Golden Horde because i was scared of having to supress too many rebellions. So if you guys have some tips i'd gladly listen

[SveFin]

Well there are a couple of things. One is that you can check how much each indivdiual province has unrest in and on average how long it will take for the rebellion to pop. If the unrest is low then you can park your troops on the province of question because 5k troops at 100% maintenance drops unrest by 1 percent. And if all provinces with the rebels in question are at or below 0% unrest then the uprising meter will drop 10% per month. The unrest btw can be lowered by a max of 5% with troops so a max of 25k troops is needed.

Another thing is to look at is what's causing the unrest, for example if it's seperatism it will fade away (albeit farely slowly). Or other factors like over-extension etc. Most things can be fixed.

Another thing is idea groups, namely humanist and religious ideas. Religious ideas make it easier to convert provinces faster while humanists decresases years of seperatism (among other things) by 10 years which is really powerful.

The last thing which I did in my ideas guy achievement hunt when I was in your situation was that I lowered autnonmy in provinces to entice revolts. Because after a revolt is beaten the same rebels get a -100% unrest modifier for something like 15 years. So if you beat the rebellion you don't have to deal with them during the war.

[RåneRonny]

Originally posted by Zebrahimovic:

Well there are a couple of things. One is that you can check how much each indivdiual province has unrest in and on average how long it will take for the rebellion to pop. If the unrest is low then you can park your troops on the province of question because 5k troops at 100% maintenance drops unrest by 1 percent. And if all provinces with the rebels in question are at or below 0% unrest then the uprising meter will drop 10% per month. The unrest btw can be lowered by a max of 5% with troops so a max of 25k troops is needed.

Another thing is to look at is what's causing the unrest, for example if it's seperatism it will fade away (albeit farely slowly). Or other factors like over-extension etc. Most things can be fixed.

Another thing is idea groups, namely humanist and religious ideas. Religious ideas make it easier to convert provinces faster while humanists decresases years of seperatism (among other things) by 10 years which is really powerful.

The last thing which I did in my ideas guy achievement hunt when I was in your situation was that I lowered autnonmy in provinces to entice revolts. Because after a revolt is beaten the same rebels get a -100% unrest modifier for something like 15 years. So if you beat the rebellion you don't have to deal with them during the war.

I see thanks for the information

[neofutur]

1- you know they re coming
2- you know where, so you can place your troups there
3- you wait for them and kill them

which means:
you do have manpower available or money for enough mercenaries, you have a decent army.
you can slow some rebels ( troops here + autonomy + harsh treatment as last resort ), speed up some other rebels ( reducing autonomy in their provinces or sending missionary ).
you fight them better when you are already here, they attack, you defend.

and most of the time, rebels are no problems.

[Halcyon]

Humanist ideas for acceptance of other religions and reduction of separatism, religious ideas for increased tolerance of the true faith and speed of conversion, troops to hot spots, raise/lower autonomy to slow/speed revolts. Don't let separatists take provinces or there will just be another revolt as soon as the -100 unrest from a recent rebellion goes away. In the absolute worst case scenario you can spend MP to reduce unrest. Keep your stability and legitimacy high, don't conquer too many provinces at once, and keep your war exhaustion low.