Faction killed by rebels

[mcveigh]

Yesterday i was playing as Julii, just defeated the Gauls. The germans still owned 7 towns, as i was getting ready to go and slaughter them something strange happened. In 1 turn the rebels took over the 7 germanic towns, of course this ill make my campaign a lot easier but its very strange a big faction like germany gets wiped out in 1 turn.

Has anyone else experienced these problems?

[a_ver_est]

Looks like they lost all remaining family member and the faction was divided in rebel armies.

[chunkynut]

Sounds as if the King was either infertile or his preferences halted any heirs popping out or the entire family was wiped out in a battle. I had this rebellion thing with the julii i think but it was early in the game and they only had 5 territories.

[Red Harvest]

In my most recent Carthaginian campaign the Julii, Scipii, and at least one other faction went rebel without warning all within a few moves. I suspect that they were suffering from being short of heirs as well as having low public order due to increasing population. I think a revolt in their cities finished them, but I wasn't checking their city stats before they abruptly disappeared. Perhaps the Senate had something to do with the Roman factions demise. I had clobbered their armies so many times that I had not seen any for several turns...just tons of boats. I doubt they had ever fulfilled any Senate missions.

[Jeanne d'arc]

Perhaps its faction related, in my campaign as the germans i am running low on heirs also, they just wont produce.

[bmolsson]

I heard that it happened in Russia 1917 where a faction was wiped out by rebels.....

[Epistolary Richard]

On a related note:

Do provinces that have had an uprising always become 'Rebel' or can they rejoin a faction that they were recently captured from?

In one game I had driven the Dacians back to a single province and wanted to create a buffer of 2 rebel territories in between us. I set the 2 ex-Dacian provinces I had just captured up for an uprising and reduced their garrisons to a skeleton crew. The next turn, both had revolted, one had gone Rebel while the other had gone back to Dacia.