Quote Originally Posted by Alumenad
Hey i'm new to the entire Total War scene and i have a couple of questions about RTW, hope someone can help me with this.

1. What are effective ways to deal with riots?
Troops. Lots and lots of troops. You can also leave the town, let it go rebel, besiege it, take it back and then enslave the inhabitants. I found that to be extremely effective against a particularly unruly city in Asia Minor. Got some nice virtues and prestige with the Senate, too.

2. When a city is pleuged what can i do about it? And how do i quarentine?
Nothing to do there but wait. I also build public health buildings like sewers -- can't hurt. Retrain your garrison each turn, too, if they're taking losses from the plague.

You can't declare a formal quarantine, but you can avoid moving any units, including agents, through the city or the province. Other than that, you have to let nature take its course.

3. I don't have enough people in my family to govern all the cities i have, can i hire governors outside of my familiy? If so how do i do this?
Bribe generals from other factions. Obviously, this only works if you have enough money. However, I've just recently discovered that bribing the depleted armies of factions that are down on their luck is a great source of new governor material. Just be careful it doesn't happen to you.

I have nothing to add to the answers already given to the rest of your questions.

Hope that helps.