Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger
This is true. However, if you never let happiness get below 100% you never have to worry about a reemergence in your provinces.
Sorry to nitpick, but you actually want to keep a province's loyalty above 120% to prevent reemergences. At 100%, there's still a chance a faction could be reborn there. Personally, I make sure provincial loyalty is always at at least 150%--I'm just anal retentive that way.

Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger
This also doesn't stop a reemergence from happening right on your border. I guess a reemergence spices things up a bit, but I've never understood how the faction leader, who had been living an underground existence, could recruit and equip so many high tech units, especially when the reemergence occurs in a province that can't even produce such units.
Indeed. I enjoy reemergences, but it would be nice if their armies were a tad more realistic. I could believe a reemgergence army that had couple units of Chivalric Knights backed up by a couple units of Feudal Knights--but only if it formed the core of an army that was made up of mostly low- & medium-grade troops (spearman, archers, FMAA, Mounted Seargents, etc.). Armies that suddenly appear with thousands of CK's, Arbs, and CS tend to defy my ability to suspend disbelief.