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Quote[/b] (Blodrast @ July 25 2004,15:19)]the 100 garrison is pretty much a standard. You do need it because otherwise you will get the bandit type of rebellion, IIRC.
You may need bigger garrisons for the more rebellious provinces, and for deep in-land provinces (distance from the king is very important).
But more troops sure DO increase loyalty. That is exactly how you maintain a decent level of loyalty when you conquer a province: put a lot of troops in there, until they get used to it and you don't need as many troops. But for the initial period (which varies a lot from case to case, as Sociopsychoactive well pointed), that is practically the ONLY way to boost loyalty: lots and lots of troops (peasants are as good as anything else).
And btw, there seems to be a lot of confusion about the loyalty threshold.
You need it above 100% to prevent all but one kind of rebellions: re-emergences. For that, you need it to be above 120%. Pre-VI autotax is set to 100%; VI sets it such that loyalty is always above 120%.