[mtw][mtw:vi] How to avoid overbuilding troops in the beginning?

[econ21]

Red Harvest's post implies it, but maybe it is worth saying explicitly - I think 100 men is a magic number. As I understand it, have a garrison less than that and you risk a rebellion, regardless of the loyalty %.

[Ludens]

Red Harvest's post implies it, but maybe it is worth saying explicitly - I think 100 men is a magic number. As I understand it, have a garrison less than that and you risk a rebellion, regardless of the loyalty %.

Less than a hundred men and no fort in a province will triger a bandit rebelion regardless of loyalty, or so I understand. However, when playing as the Romans I once left Volhynia totally ungarrisonded (I didn't want to keep the province: it was too exposed and I needed the troops, so I thought: let it rebel and then I won't go to war once somebody takes it). But it didn't rebel, not for years. And nobody attacked it either. This strange situation lasted until the end of my campaign (because my King died without offspring). I don't remember if the province contained a fort or not.