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Quote[/b] (Sociopsychoactive @ July 13 2004,09:53)]Bandits can be seen as the next worst, but only in types of units, not in numbers. Bandits appear when there is no castle in a province, or a garrison of less than 100 men (they usually need the loyalty to go down as well, but not if there is no castle). They are always very good troops, often with high starting valour and moderate command stars.
I am not sure this is entirely true. I was fooling around farming some vnv's on one of my generals on a bandit rebellion in Khazar. The loyalty of the province was crappy, and my general was alone each time, so no chance of getting loyalty back. Each year I would send my general there, kill them all, and not even have to retreat, because its presence alone was not enough to boost loyalty to a sufficient value.
The rebels were _always_ crap troops (i.e. archers, peasants, spearmen, sometimes xbows and arbs). This was in end of High - beginning of Late.