Strange Rebel Armies

[Emerald Wolf]

French attacked me with 2 stacks archers, artillery and thier King. Succesion commenced. Stupid, stupid French.

[dgfred]

French attacked me with 2 stacks archers, artillery and thier King. Succesion commenced. Stupid, stupid French.

Welcome Emerald Wolf . That is hilarious .

[EatYerGreens]

Well this isn't a strange rebel army but it sure is a strange situation.

I reloaded a gamesave (not an autosave, I hasten to add) and found this...



Note the 'Rebel' icon on the toolbar and the note saying the highlighted rebel
army is mine.

Note that the date has reverted to 1087, when the filename of the gamesave
ended in "1186".

I exited the campaign map and reloaded the save again but got the same
thing again, so it seems my save had got corrupted.

For once, I was grateful for it, because I'd saved at the aftermath of a
calamitous battle which had cost me a 8*Def/9*Atk (skilled def'r/Expert
Atck'r) general on my African front. I had been prepared to plough on without
him but wasn't given the opportunity in the end.

Wierd battle, with sound corruption at the deployment phase (me defending)
and thus no music and no sound effects to help situational awareness, just a
continuous hissing sound... for 77 mins. I continued to hold ground as their
Peasant and UM reinforcements came off the conveyor belt but my Gen unit
was reduced to just him, totally exhausted and he succumbed. I must have
rolled on another 700-800 in reinforcements but all their valour boost had
gone and they were swept away within seconds of contact, one after
another. We killed more men but lost anyway.

Afterward, I was furious to see, from the battle log, that the enemy Gen unit
had withdrawn!!! No wonder I couldn't find the little sod. Only occurred to
me, then, that I could have pulled the same stunt, kept the valour boost
and likely have won as my late reinforcements outnumbered theirs.

I loaded an older gamesave without needing to exit MTW and restart and got
my gen back, with only a year or two's action to repeat and feel totally
justified in doing so considering the AI's commander-withdrawal cheat.

[King Kurt]

I played out my 16 ballista game last night - I had a unit of feudal sargents, unit of vanilla spear, unit of hobilars and a unit of jinettes. The infantry sat back while the cavalry went round the flank of the serried ranks of ballistas who all decided to run away when flanked. The game lasted about 2 minutes! I did manage to loose about 4 men - 2 or 3 infantry, presumably to some ballista bolts and 1 cavalry man, who I assume must have fallen off his horse laughing.

[Mr White]

Yesterday I saw something weird. I saw one rebel province helping another.

I was besieging a small rebel force in Sinai and the rebels from Arabia (or something like that) attacked (and left their province unguarded) me while the besieged rebels sallied out. It was like they were one faction.

Was this a coïncidence or should rebels be regarded as a faction?

[Zild]

Well, if you go to war with one bunch of rebels, all the rebels consider you their enemy... Very annoying when you merely went to war with them due to a peasant revolt or something similar!

In that sense, I count them as one faction. It's also very hard to stop them being at war with you, given they can be a lot more spread out than true factions; getting it so that you don't neighbour any - which is the only way to make peace with them - can be very difficult in some locations.

Or have I missed something? Some way out of these ongoing wars would be very handy!

[Emerald Wolf]

I rather wish you could mod it so that all the minor factions were represented as factions, not just the generic term of "rebels". I wonder is the max number of factions hard-coded in? If not as soon as I get VI I would love to take one of the Mods and held expand it so that there are no more generic rebels.