I second want dani has said to be honest i agree with everything.

When the rebellion suddenly happened i was shocked, i had shot down to -150k in one turn, i had lost all of italy and gaul. What remained were undeveloped settlements as i had only just took them. When i had come to the 85 settlement point i had actually stopped expanding in the east and decided to begin to provide them with some attention. However i obviously didnt get given the time.

I could of took the route of selling many of my troops, but i went for desperation, and a quick counterattack, i sent everything to the eastern coast, i rushed back several legions from gaul. Some of which had been destroyed. I had 10 fleets on the coast of greece, each sending a army over to italy. I decided that without Italy i didnt have a choice and that had to be my first priority.

I even brought back several legions from egypt and africa. It was a real struggle and half of my units were weak, such as levy pikeman and the like. Then the other lot were mainly older republican legions. I did have about 4 named legions moving into italy. Therefore i outnumbered the rebellion units in Italy probably 3 to 1. I probably lost 2 men for every one of theres, but even so my gamble payed off and i managed to regain, sicily, italy and some of africa. Financially i began gaining 80k per turn. I had reached -350k at my lowest point financially, however i plundered the settlements i took and brought this up to -200k which then inturn i was out of debt within about 3 turns later as a result of beginning to gain some money.

I think i will definitely try and push on too late game, it will probably take a good 15 years before my empire is even close to what it use to be, maybe even more, but currently it is stable, however the rebels are very strong in gaul and will take some beating. Cimbri have pushed me completely out of germany, boii and dacia have started to push down into my north east provinces. I have been completely pushed out of egypt by the ptolemaics and totally pushed out of iberia by the galleci.

Overall i think this rebellion is all about sacrifice. it is all about what you as a player are willing to sacrifice, no matter what i think every player, no matter how good the player is, will have to sacrifice something. My gamble payed off, but even so i had to sacrifice a good 10-15 settlements to other people beside the rebels.

If the player is given italy and greece, victory i think would certainly be easy. If not then the player will struggle, losing both greece and italy would be tragic i should think for the player, how ever losing one of the both, would probably be the ideal scenario for the player as for difficulty.


So i will try and push on past the late rebellion, see how the rebels perform later on, when they will have to produce their own troops and keep a close eye on unit production. Once done i will begin to start playing from 85 turns again, but right now my main priotity is:

To see how long it takes to regain the empire i had before hand

To see what troops the rebels produce


So i will keep you posted i have a lot of playing time on my hands, as college is finished, just the gf who gets in the way now haha :)