State of the Game

[Slaists]

I did that on my first playthrough. They went and took Appolonia and then the almighty Adriaei came down and crushed them for their insolence. While facing their second stack rebels spawned Tylis again and I conceded. Rebel stacks are very high chevroned units now, can't be shrugged off by garrisons.

The rebels usually spawn with 3-4 units and then recruit more as the turns go by. If you get rid of them at the start, not too much of a problem even with high xp chevrons.

As to rebellions in general, could it be that you're favoring the military side of the research tree? With a few extra points in cultural conversion, public order and pop growth (the latter for temple slots), rebellions dont seem much of an issue even on legendary; unless, pesky AI spies cause unrest, of course.

Good sword infantry not so much. It's the throwing spears they throw on their charge. Pike infantry, no matter the quality, are really really vulnerable to anything that flies around.

Will have to pay closer attention to that. I just know whenever I have a stationary line of pikes facing strong AI sword infantry, those buggers somehow manage to get between the pikes causing the pike unit to switch to swords.