Please note that I only want information from games played after the latest patch. This is very important.
I want to hear from people who have played a Christian game after the last patch. Specifically, I want to hear about your missionaries and how successful they were in two specific areas:
1) Are you having decent success causing rebellions or are you finding FAIL is the word of the day? Please describe missionary level and skill direction along with the results if possible.
2) Is the Buddhist AI managing to cope with the unrest caused by having its provinces converted, or is it frequently maintaining control? Please state campaign difficulty if possible.
Before the patch I heard a lot of people say that missionaries are pretty much an ultimate weapon against the AI, to the point where the game becomes very easy. I heard a lot about how they can cause revolts easily and how those revolts created large rebel armies which took control of the province so the player could waltz in, enabling the player to expand without declaring war on other clans. I also heard a lot about how they cause high unrest in AI provinces by converting the populace to Christianity, and how the AI often struggles to cope. I did not try a Christian clan at that point.
After the patch I started a Christian Shimazu/hard/short game. My missionaries are virtually worthless in the two areas where I expected them to excel, and I want to know if this is an anomaly or if they have been tweaked. When I convert enemy provinces the AI dramatically increases the garrison and remains in control, thus making it harder for me to conquer the province. When I try to cause rebellions I fail, fail, fail, fail even with high level agents skilled towards that one task. On those incredibly rare occasions where I do get a revolt the rebel army is typically tiny and easily crushed.
While I'm rather glad that the missionaries are not such a game breaker as they sounded, I can't finish my guide section on missionaries until I know if my experience is unusual or if the accepted wisdom no longer applies. I cannot recommend the popular strategies when they diverge from my own experience, nor can I place my own experience first when it is seems unusual.
Thanks.
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