Rebels sprawl ? 0_o

[Akka]

Ok, just something I wondering : is it just me or is there some incredible quantity of rebels ?

Despite the serious issues I have with the new battle system, I'm trying to get into the game. So I launch a new campaign (medium/medium to get the hang of it) with France.

So I play the first turn. Hit the "next turn" button. Right.
Already a rebel army pop up near Marseille, with sergeants and chivalric knights. Wow. They sure didn't lose any time.
Nevermind, I kill them. Finish the turn. Play another one. Finish it again, all's right.
Then the next turn (so the FOURTH turn into the game, including the one we start in), FIVE rebels armies pop everywhere in the kingdom 0_o

Now, seriously, am I just having bad luck, is it going to be toned down the further I'll advance into the campaign, or is it just the way it's designed with constant brigands and pirate armies appearing out of nowhere each handful of turns ?


The thing that annoyed me probably the most in RTW was the insane amount of rebels constantly popping everywhere and adding an immense tediousness to the game.
Please, tell me it's not the case here...

[Lochar]

I am still on my long English campaign on default settings. To be honest, I hardly fight rebels.

I am around turn 90, I have lost a few units going rebellious, but for about 10 turns I was excommunicated due to a bug.

You should check all your settlement details, maybe the french started with alot of unrest, I dont know.

Build an inn and start plopping out some spies and move them to your own cities and see if they can uncover any foreign spies that could be increasing unrest.

Right now most of my front line has at least 2 spies in them and its amusing watching them die trying to plant someone.

But as to why you have so many rebels, all I can figure is check settlement details and see if it provides clues. Like I said, I had very minor time with rebels and was actually missing them to provide some experience.

I havent even seen an inquistor yet, and 1 witch. Of course one I get the details all down going to start doing H to VH settings.

[Dayve]

Rebel spawn in M2 is pointless, random and stupid, just as it was in RTW. Rebels spawn inbetween two green happy faced cities, when they should be spawning next to blue/red faced cities... It was worse in RTW when 1 unit of peasants would spawn outside your 220% loyalty capital city... Random rebel spawning annoys the hell out of me so i just turn it off.

Data-World-maps-Campaign-imperial campaign-descr_strat

Just underneath the playable/nonplayable faction lists you see brigand_spawn_value which i think is set to 28, just put it up to 100 and rebels will never spawn. That's what i have it on. If you want them to still spawn but not as often, put it to 40 maybe and they will be a lot less frequent.

[Akka]

Data-World-maps-Campaign-imperial campaign-descr_strat

Just underneath the playable/nonplayable faction lists you see brigand_spawn_value which i think is set to 28, just put it up to 100 and rebels will never spawn. That's what i have it on. If you want them to still spawn but not as often, put it to 40 maybe and they will be a lot less frequent.

You're my hero !

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Rebel spawn in M2 is pointless, random and stupid, just as it was in RTW. Rebels spawn inbetween two green happy faced cities, when they should be spawning next to blue/red faced cities... It was worse in RTW when 1 unit of peasants would spawn outside your 220% loyalty capital city... Random rebel spawning annoys the hell out of me so i just turn it off.

Data-World-maps-Campaign-imperial campaign-descr_strat

Just underneath the playable/nonplayable faction lists you see brigand_spawn_value which i think is set to 28, just put it up to 100 and rebels will never spawn. That's what i have it on. If you want them to still spawn but not as often, put it to 40 maybe and they will be a lot less frequent.

I tried doing that without really knowing much about what the value did, so I changed it to zero. Was going out of my mind trying to figure out why there are so many rebels with a spawn rate of zero

[Dayve]

Glad i could help.