Sacking and Revolts

[duncan.gill]

Hmmmm...rebellions slaves aren't easy - once I took out Arabia and several rebellions broke out where full stacks of slaves were spawned. Unfortunately these slaves all had double gold chevrons and consequently were uber-tough and destroyed any units that they engaged in melee combat (also if I recall their rocks actually became fairly deadly). Also being in the middle of no-where created recruitment problems - it took several phalanx stacks to put down the rebellion.

[Ca Putt]

Sacking and running?one of my hobbies :D
afaik they mostl spawn slaves but ~20% of the spawned units are troops from the area. I REALY enjoy doing it:
1. you get a lot of money by burning down evrything(and a lot of fun because you were evil )
2. enemy can't train high level troops there for some time and has to lower taxes
3. they pull of their main armies.
4. slaves are not as cheap to "maintain" as Skirmishers(or did i get this wrong?)
5. they make exellent training dolls for lancers and archers
-> thus weakening their armies which can be easily routed and are only usefull as cannon fodder during seiges

[Cbvani]

Hmmmm...rebellions slaves aren't easy - once I took out Arabia and several rebellions broke out where full stacks of slaves were spawned. Unfortunately these slaves all had double gold chevrons and consequently were uber-tough and destroyed any units that they engaged in melee combat (also if I recall their rocks actually became fairly deadly). Also being in the middle of no-where created recruitment problems - it took several phalanx stacks to put down the rebellion.

I think that may be from 1.0 where the lethality of slaves was 1 - same as arrows, so they chewed through a lot of things. They are much weaker in 1.1. Don't worry about em, they're easy experience.

[Onehandstan]

I've noticed that slaves can be pretty tough when the need arrises, I had to defend a town once with I think two units of Lugoae and a unit of slaves and the slaves got more kills (I still lost the town)