Rebellion!!! Wait... What?

[Cookie ✪ Slayer]

To any new players who may read this: Don't dominate the majority of orcs on the board. Here's why.

I had three out of four warchiefs betray and ambush me all at once, and the game stated it was a REBELLION. Huh. At first, I thought I had just done a shrakh job at managing my fort, so I searched for reasons to explain what I had done wrong. That's when I found this little tid-bit that shed light on the sitchy-ashun...

Rebellions are now most likely to occur if most or all of the Army board in a specific region is dominated.

Looks like I went a little cray-cray drafting new players for the team.

Link to article: https://www.gameskinny.com/oaa7s/shadow-of-war-rebellion-guide

[Mandrake109]

Never had a warcheif back stab me. Did learn to leave 3-5 hostile captians on the board on every map at all times.

[Cookie ✪ Slayer]

I had about that many, as well. I still wanted to be able to farm them for gear. But now I'm guessing anything over 50% of the board increases your chances for this kind of betrayal.

[Mandrake109]

No idea what is up with your game then. I have not had a betrayal in ages since I started leaving some of the board for enemy captians. (Save that one time after a very bad series of run ins with a very annoying outlaw tank.)

[Cookie ✪ Slayer]

Like the article states, if you dominate too many of them, the chances for rebellion increases. Here's a screenshot from the fort as it is now. Subtract three enemy spots and that's how many there were. So I had five enemy spots still open.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/909044160958338279/326E8B3B7679EB3D80500FD0A2E4CCA3C939EA97/

[Defektiv]

I do it anyway. Sometimes things get a little crazy but that's ok. One time I had betrayal and an ambush in a fight I made between blood brothers. They flip flopped a couple times during the fight and when it ended, although I had killed both of them, the ambushing one was still alive as one of my captains and never said another word about it.

[Angelus]

Originally posted by Sarcasticus Rex:

To any new players who may read this: Don't dominate the majority of orcs on the board. Here's why.

I had three out of four warchiefs betray and ambush me all at once, and the game stated it was a REBELLION. Huh. At first, I thought I had just done a shrakh job at managing my fort, so I searched for reasons to explain what I had done wrong. That's when I found this little tid-bit that shed light on the sitchy-ashun...

Rebellions are now most likely to occur if most or all of the Army board in a specific region is dominated.

Looks like I went a little cray-cray drafting new players for the team.

Link to article: https://www.gameskinny.com/oaa7s/shadow-of-war-rebellion-guide

That's why follow in the steps of Jacob Seed from Farcry 5. I cull the herd and weed out the weak. My men only occupy the third and second tiers of the board. I leave the first tier open for more to spawn in.
And by weed out the weak I mean I shun or kill any of my captains whom I consider too weak. Like I can overlook a fear of pinning if I only really use them for field missions. I also only make those who have minor weaknesses my warchiefs and overlords. No major weaknesses or fears. AND DEFINITELY NO MORTAL WEAKNESSES.

Also just a little tip to have a solid fortress defense scheme. Make all of your warchiefs legendary along with your overlord and give your overlord at least 3 or 4 legendary bodyguards.