Taking territory in BI

[Aetius22]

Interesting, what difficulty level were you playing? I did the same thing you did and didn't experience that problem. His loyalty was high enough, the only time I had a general rebel he had no loyalty.

Maybe you should wait a bit before destroying the Zoroastrian temple? I had to do that with a couple of barbarian provinces to wait till the governor and the surrounding provinces had some conversion effects. Was it a full stack garrisoning the city?

[mrbigglesworth]

It was my first campaign on BI, so I was only in M/M. I had 20 units garrisoning the city, though some were half-full archer units that the city was not able to reinforce, and a couple cavalry units. All of them now belong to the rebels.

This might be a complete coincidence, but on the same turn I had a Persian city that rebelled and became part of my empire. This was a typical rebellion though, where peasants showed up in the city and the garrison was kicked out into the country side. There was not a message for this though, either.

[Aetius22]

Probably Kotais, right? It rebelled fand came over to my side as well. The city is Christian IIRC and as soon as the Sassanids take it over, if they don't have a big enough army it rebels towards the ERE side.

Very strange, I think you were just a victim of bad luck. You have to really micromanage the cities in BI to keep them happy if they are a different religion than the governor and/or the King/Emperor. Fortunately both the walls and the academies give you happines/law bonuses.

I would check the guide section. There is a lot of good information there.