Again...new screens

[Perplexed]

It does not sound a bad representation of the precarious position of the Normans in 1080. AFAIK, they did have to spend quite a bit of time pacifying the country. A rebel province seems a reasonable way of representing that within the TW engine.

Perhaps, but surely they could achieve that effect by simply giving the area loyalty problems at the beginning of the game. As it is the idea of an Anglo-Norman army moving into Northumbria having to conquer York seems ludicrous, especially after the whacking given the area less than two decades ago by William the Conquerer.

Northumbria was already about as pacified as you can get.