First Impressions

[ArcturUs]

Totally agree. And indeed, in my more "settled" provinces such as Italia, Cisalpina, Magna Grecia etc, I maintain zero military presence. My comment pertains more to recently conquered provinces, while dealing with the cultural differences and slowly decaying unrest. This typically takes around 10-15 turns to resolve (and yes, I know dignitaries help..I use 'em). During this "assimilation period", however, I feel like I have to keep my field armies parked in these settlements until they cross back into the "green" for public order. Lends a rather "start-stop" dynamic to the ongoing Roman juggernaut.

Ya when you capture new regions it is a bit of a problem. But even then I usually park my conquering army for just a single turn(by which the one turn political instability will be over) and move on to the next settlement. Like quadalpha mentioned even if it does get to -100, it just spawns a rebel army which you can defeat relatively easily, in most cases. What I do is, if I notice that the settlement is going to rebel soon I'll keep my conquering army just on the borders of the settlement so that I can take care of the rebel army when it spawns. One good thing when you beat a rebel army is that it restores public order and the people will know who their true masters are

Another thing I noticed is that factions that were destroyed previously can make a comeback if their previously owned territories rebel. I noticed this when I destroyed Libya, but after a few turns one of the towns that I captured from them rebelled and a Libyan army spawned. Although I did decimate them in the very next turn