Quote Originally Posted by bretwalda
Well, if any of the provinces rebel in the first few turn it is hard to quell, may even break a game. So I tend to overbuild the low-cost units just to avoid that. However in turn the first few thousand florins part me very fast and after that all improvements builds stall. So any tips and tricks, rule of thumbs, how to find the fine balance? How many troops in the rebellious and in normal provices for avoiding the rebellion for sure? 100? 200? 250? Thanks for the ideas!
Never had that much problems in the beginning..... Though I NEVER build peasants. I tend to balance my forces throughout the country(easier with Denmark but doable with most factions, minus maybe Germany & Byzantium), and this is usually enough to avoid problems.

Plus I do use the "autotax" feature(the lone micromanagement level I do delegate to the machine). It usually limits most of the problems.