Devastation?

[Thrudvang]

Never seen this talked about yet and i'm not too sure what it's all about, but it's causing me money problems so I decided if someone here might know what to do about it.

http://img64.exs.cx/img64/8192/devastation.jpg


As you can see by that town's income, it's bothersome.

[Orvis Tertia]

I don't know the answer, but the first thing I would suspect is that you've had rebels of some other enemy wandering around unchecked on your territory.

[Thrudvang]

I think the Gauls might of caused damage to the road next to the city, which is what I expected this to be, but how do I fix it? Put an army of my own on that spot?

[Ulstan]

Devastation is the blackened area that shows up on the campaign map when an enemy army sits in the territory too long. Your own troops seiging a city create devastation.

Rebel armies *anywhere* in the province can create devastated patches - so if the province is a big one, make sure you can see all of it lest a rebel army juts hang out generating devastation. (I had one do that to me once - I had all the roads covered, but he was off on a hill devastatin' away)

I think once the offending army is removed, the devastated area clears up with time.