Provinces rebelling to Saba

[mediobogdum]

Hello, thanks for your blood and sweat on this terrific mod.

I am playing as Saba and keep having provinces very far from me rebelling to me and putting me at war with their former Masters (not to mention trashing my budget). Can this be overcome?

[Nirvanish]

Not really, several eleutheroi starting cities contain Saba town halls. So if the ai conquers them and they rebel you will gain control of the city. But once a city reaches the next population level and the ai builds their own hall the city will no longer rebel to you.

[mediobogdum]

Thank you for your quick response. That is nice to know, I can put up with it for a little while so long as I know it will go away eventually.

[MisterFred]

How's your campaign going? My Saba single-player campaign was the best (and hardest) I ever played in EB. Looonng to, I was in the 130s and still in the thick of it.

[mediobogdum]

How's your campaign going? My Saba single-player campaign was the best (and hardest) I ever played in EB. Looonng to, I was in the 130s and still in the thick of it.

It's going very slowly, but I'm well insulated from my neighbors and can afford to take my time.

The rebelling has become more common which is my fault I believe. The last time they did it I wiped everything out of the town that I could, this is not having a very good affect on morale and consequently they're rebelling every turn now. Sowing and reaping and all that I suppose.

[MisterFred]

Yeah, I didn't get any rebellions until late, when Palmyra destroyed a fragile peace I'd taken soooooooo long to set up. How are your expansion attempts going? I remember getting cocky early since one spy near the Sinai can essentially be your entire defensive strategy against the Ptolemies (see them coming in time to raise an army and destroy them), and AS never wraps around to your homelands. But after my third invasion of Africa failed despite my ability to recruit elephants and three historic victories in Kush (the elites just kept coming... I took Meroe from a 13000 pop large city to a 400 man village trying to stem the tide), I realized why Saba is just about the only faction where they warn you its easy early and gets hard late.

After that I failed to invade India by sea (first time I tried in EB... 32-elephant general units...), It wasn't until my second invasion of India/weakening of the AS juggernaut by land (sack, replace mercs, abandon, rinse, repeat) succeeded that I started making any permanent headway outside of Arabia).

How are the Diadochi treating you? Macedonia in my campaign unified Hellas and got into a massive war with Rome over Illyria. Ptolemies and AS skirmished inconclusively for years (AS took south Anatolia early, and everything between Antioch-Damascus and the Nile region changed hands a few times) before eventually allying, which pissed me off to no end.

[SaigonSaddler]

Yeah, I didn't get any rebellions until late, when Palmyra destroyed a fragile peace I'd taken soooooooo long to set up. How are your expansion attempts going? I remember getting cocky early since one spy near the Sinai can essentially be your entire defensive strategy against the Ptolemies (see them coming in time to raise an army and destroy them), and AS never wraps around to your homelands. But after my third invasion of Africa failed despite my ability to recruit elephants and three historic victories in Kush (the elites just kept coming... I took Meroe from a 13000 pop large city to a 400 man village trying to stem the tide), I realized why Saba is just about the only faction where they warn you its easy early and gets hard late.

After that I failed to invade India by sea (first time I tried in EB... 32-elephant general units...), It wasn't until my second invasion of India/weakening of the AS juggernaut by land (sack, replace mercs, abandon, rinse, repeat) succeeded that I started making any permanent headway outside of Arabia).

How are the Diadochi treating you? Macedonia in my campaign unified Hellas and got into a massive war with Rome over Illyria. Ptolemies and AS skirmished inconclusively for years (AS took south Anatolia early, and everything between Antioch-Damascus and the Nile region changed hands a few times) before eventually allying, which pissed me off to no end.

With the Macedonians, I smashed the greeks early on and (eventually) got rid of Epirotes from mainland Greece (they have since got control of the whole of Italy) Nibbled away the whole of Asia minor from Seleucids, sacked Alexandria and Memphis in a raid, but at war with Ptollies and Seleucids so I went through the hills to both smash the annoying Hai and ravage the Seleucid heartland of Babylon etc. Next a pincer attack on Egypt, hoover up Italy and leave the inevitable wars against Carthage and Getai for last.

Hopefully the impressive Luisitanians will run out of steam and I'll win.