Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
To answer your fist question, I believe only certain provinces which contain the Iron resource are able to fully build up the weaponsmith buildings.

As to your second, once you hold a certain percentage of the map, the game tries to make it more challenging by dropping the happiness levels in your settlements - it's not a bug, it's an actual feature. It usually happens when you own around 60 % (or was it 80%) of the map. Irritating, but bound to happen sooner or later. It's basically why a lot of people prefer GA mode over conquest mode...


So THAT is the reason why when the AI in the other side of the world conquers a huge empire it tends to implode, and many of the slaughtered factions reemerge from the rebel remnants? I thought it was the AI doing something horribly wrong (I tend to turtle, so I didn´t encounter that yet)

In a byzantine vanilla game, it allowed me to get the Iberian Peninsula as byzantium by buying the rebelling armies which had been my Italian ally´s former grand armee. The Italians themselves were beaten and hamstrung, as that rebellion had synchroniced with a papal reemergence all through Italy. So the Italians themselves ended up being left with a few provinces in... Scandinavia, I think. :p