Whats The Toughest Rebel City?

**_Aetius_** · 01-22-2006, 15:12

In RTR probably the Indian provinces far in the east, i've never seen so many elephants, thousands of indian troops and hundreds of elephants, incredibly difficult to conquer.

Also in RTR as the Romans i'd just conquered Gaul and was planning to emulate Caeser by invading Britain, my army was pretty strung out after such a huge campaign against the Gauls, but I felt I could achieve some local success and maybe capture a settlement. So I started amassing what troops I could and got the fleet to the channel, I sent a spy over so I could storm a city easily, but the spy found thousands of Woad warriors with silver chevrons with a ton of chariots and slingers littering the island.

I reckon to invade, defeat the tribes, conquer and occupy Britain i'd of needed 2500 to 3500 troops atleast, all I had was 1 legion of 1400 men hastily gathered together, so suffice to say that campaign was aborted

. It'd take alot of effort and preparation to conquer Britain and Ireland on RTR, I don't even know if it'd be worth conquering, but I know it'd take a hefty garrison in each city to hold them.

**Zalmoxis** · 01-24-2006, 07:09

The toughest is the one that develops quickest, it varies from campaign to campaign.

**Zain** · 01-24-2006, 13:49

My toughest in my current Medieval: Total War Campaign would have to be the Portugese. I just CAN'T keep them down! LOL

-ZainDustin

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-24-2006, 15:46

Several annoying ones.

An Italian city rebelling post-marian has all the wild stuff in it.

A northern Barbarian city. (As in conquer it, watch it rebel and spontaneously generate an army at LEAST 50% tougher than the one you just beat).

A formerly Pontic or Armenian city that rebels AFTER the faction is dead -- Let's just say I'd like to be able to generate 6 units of cataphracts that easily....

Also, tough to keep from rebelling:

Carthage, Jerusalem.

Neither will tolerate anything but low taxes for long. Cathage especially.

You can build every upgrade, grant them a tax holiday, station your faction leader there as governor and make it your capitol, garrison them with a full stack of pikemen and they STILL have a slight chance to rebel. Of course, I've also seen it garrisoned successfully by the Numidians with a faction heir and by the SPQR with nada -- but they'll boot out my conquering half-stack in a hot second and back come the hefalumps.

**Byzantine Mercenary** · 01-24-2006, 16:28

exterminate populice and build peasant garisons

once i conqured every region on the map, loads of citys were very unhappy though, i would settle one revolt and then another one would happen somewhere else!

**Leonin Khan** · 01-24-2006, 22:00

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Several annoying ones.

An Italian city rebelling post-marian has all the wild stuff in it.

A northern Barbarian city. (As in conquer it, watch it rebel and spontaneously generate an army at LEAST 50% tougher than the one you just beat).

A formerly Pontic or Armenian city that rebels AFTER the faction is dead -- Let's just say I'd like to be able to generate 6 units of cataphracts that easily....

Also, tough to keep from rebelling:

Carthage, Jerusalem.

Neither will tolerate anything but low taxes for long. Cathage especially.

You can build every upgrade, grant them a tax holiday, station your faction leader there as governor and make it your capitol, garrison them with a full stack of pikemen and they STILL have a slight chance to rebel. Of course, I've also seen it garrisoned successfully by the Numidians with a faction heir and by the SPQR with nada -- but they'll boot out my conquering half-stack in a hot second and back come the hefalumps.

Carthage Nova and many spanish towns are just as bad. and Germanic towns suck 2.