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[loyque]

I m playing rome total war barbarian invasion , my problem is sometimes my city is occupied by the romas without any siege or nothing is this a bug in the game or is there something i can do abou that thanks ahead for your answer

[Fate]

It could be the case that the city has revolted. Is your army outside the city on the turn that the romans appear? If so, it could be down to revolts, if this is so, then next time you conquer the city, i would recommend slaughtering the occupants on arrival, keeping a large garrison inthe city (even if its just peasents, the citizens are kept happy by numbers, not the quality of the troops), building of law and religion are also a nessecity in keping your subjects happy.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi loyque,
Could you provide us with some more information, such as what faction you are playing as and what the circumstances were, so that we can try to help you better. Thanks!

[loyque]

thanks guys for you quick reply , i really appreciate it , so i m playing the sassanids , the problem seems mainly to be in those cities : antioch , Philadelphia , Jerusalem, and trasus , now all of those cities are crwoded with armies and each have a clibinarri immortals as a commander . now it seems that i loose my cities when i click end turns , here what happened when i did it now , antioch was captured by romans there was a message that the city has revolted and that there is 1335 civilian killed and 0 soldier ,i had 808 soldiers in it also i had a fort which was close and which contained only 1 clibinarri immortals , also i had riots in other cities but mainly i have only lost antioch for now , also before i forget i m using the trainer cheat for the money and unlimited move don t know if this matter on the issue here . thanks again for your help

[lottrbacchus]

you need to keep you cities somewhat happy, or they will revolt and your army will be expelled. then any other army is free to attack your old city- they are attacking rebels and not you, after all!

so i would suggest reading around on the board a bit about happiness and such.

good luck!

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi again loyque,
Fate and lottrbacchus are right. You can see if a city is on the verge of rioting/revolt if:

The best way to keep a city in order is:

• Reduce the tax rate to low - this increases public order by 30% although on the down side it reduces your tax income from this province.
• Send more troops to the city to stop further dissent. More troops threaten the city's inhabitants to stop rioting!
• Send a governor with higher influence levels. This can cause a 5% increase in public order per influence point.
• If time permits you can build building which have a positive effect on law, happiness and health.
• Exterminate large cities on occupation. This removes squalor and helps keep everybody happier.
• Destroy the other religious buildings in the provinces and build your faction's temples as fast as you can! This should reduce unrest caused by different religions. Don't worry yourself if the city riots while you get the temples running. All dissent should be quelled by the time you get to a high enough level of temple and everybody is converted.

You can tell if a city is going to revolt if:

• There is a blue face on the city on the strategy map. Now is the time to take preliminary action. Build buildings that have a positive effect on public order and draft in a few more troops to keep the order on yellow.
• There is a red face on the city on strategy map. Now is the time to take urgent action. Lower the tax rate and bring in some troops.
• There is a red face and next to it is a pitchfork surrounded by fire. In this case get in as many troops as possible into the province. Try to maintain order by lowering the tax rate as far as possible and drafting in as many troops as you can. If you can't hold it then just abandon it and attack it again later. Then you can exterminate the place.

Good luck with your rebellions!

[loyque]

ok i think i understand now , but i have one more question can anyone tell me how to convert the city religion and how to destroy the other religious buildings , thanks guys.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi again,
All you have to do is click on the "building" tab when a city is selected. Then right click on a building icon of a church (this is a building with a brown roof and stone walls). This should open up a scroll showing you the information about the building. On the bottom left of a scroll there should be a button. Click on it and the building will collapse and be destroyed. Then double click on the city you have selected. Then click on the "build" tab. Then build a Shrine of Zoroastrianism. This should last two turns to build. When it is complete, build the next level up - a Temple of Zoroastrianism, then a Large Temple of Zoroastrianism. Continue building temples till you can build no more. It is essential that settlements are converted quickly to avoid the locals getting angry at their conversion.

[Roman_Man#3]

• There is a blue face on the city on the strategy map. Now is the time to take preliminary action. Build buildings that have a positive effect on public order and draft in a few more troops to keep the order on yellow.
• There is a red face on the city on strategy map. Now is the time to take urgent action. Lower the tax rate and bring in some troops.
• There is a red face and next to it is a pitchfork surrounded by fire. In this case get in as many troops as possible into the province. Try to maintain order by lowering the tax rate as far as possible and drafting in as many troops as you can. If you can't hold it then just abandon it and attack it again later. Then you can exterminate the place.

Good luck with your rebellions!

I find the need to take action while it is at blue quite unnecessary. The public order would be around 80-90%, and you are quite far from rebellion or revolt. If it goes from Green to blue in one fell swoop, check if there is a spy in there from another faction. They lower public order. If there isn't, do as Omanes does and build buildings that increase public order, train some peasants(I personally don't like peasants, but they make good garrison units in a pinch.)

If it red, you are probably from 70-80%. Still no need to worry, as a revolt starts at 65%, but you might want to train a few extra garrison units, and get a good manager in there.

I have noticed though, sometimes if you are at a rebellious stage, or very close, and you destroy a high level religious(?) building of another faction, the order will go down alot. So wait until the rebellion has cooled over before destroying the religious building.

Goog luck.
RM3


ps. if that sounds like I am saying that what omanes said is stoopid, because it is not, I am sorry. I just had to add my two cents.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi,
I always take action on "blue" due to the fact that the city will be growing and squalor will be going up. This combined with other factors can cause a city to go from blue to red and rioting within two turns. The sooner you act - the better, especially if the city is large sized.

...train some peasants...

I am sorry to say that I disagree. In Barbarian Invasion peasants are the one of the worst possible garrison troops as they have the least effect on public order due to the "peasant" attribute. Unfortunately, this causes them to have about half the effect on public order than other non-peasant units. Cheers!

[Roman_Man#3]

Oh, I didn't realize he was playing BI.

[Severous]

Hello Loyqe welcome to the forum and to BI.

Is this one of your first games of RTW ? If so you have picked a faction with some of the most powerful troops...the Sassinads Immortals. They really kick butt. Good choice.

However...you have a really tricky problem. Antioch is Christian and with a very big population as well. You want to convert it. If you follow the advice above it will convert...but not before you have riots and rebellions. Its a real tough one.

Sassinad were my previous campaign. The sequence I followed was:
- capture then exterminate the population
- build execution sq
- whilst execution sq is building recruit big manpower units. Expand garrison quickly.
- Once the execution sq was done the unrest in the town will have dropped for three reasons 1) Execution Sq 2) Time has passed since capture 3) Bigger garrison
- Then Demolish Christian church and build your best shrine/temple in its place.

This screenshot was made up of the various factors to consider.


In summary you have to delay conversion a short while whilst you get public order under control. Especially on very hard difficulty.

Good luck

[lottrbacchus]

i read somewhere that peasants were still the cheapest public order units in b.i. even with the peasant attribute? i'm not playing b.i. till i get bored of vanilla, so..

here's my take on destroying temples and other buildings from the other culture:
i rarely destroy the existing temple when i first take a city. in fact, it is usually the last to go. why? because i usually exterminate the population so the place isn't going to make it to the next level of city for quite a while so their temple usually gives quite a good public order bonus while only representing 1 building for cultural difference.

you can't upgrade the governor's house, farms, roads or mines until you build the population to bigger than it was when you take it, so those are all also cultural penalties. so i destroy all the other buildings and then start building up troop production buildings (archery ranges, stables, etc) so they can begin countering the cultural effect while i still get the bonus from the existing temple.

since you can only build one building at a time, what is the point of taking out something that might give you, say, a +20 public order with the same cultural penalty that a stables would?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi lottrbacchus,

I destroy the other religious building when my faction's religion is different from it, because it provides an awful 15% penalty. It unfortunately adds +5% to religious unrest due to the governor having a different religion and +10% to religious unrest because the faction leader has a different religion. If you destroy it then the city instantly becomes unhappy as the governor's/faction leader's religion, which is different to the whole of the cities population, becomes the official religion. Riots will most certainly start, but it is worth it once you have finished. Once the whole city is converted it makes the city much easier to control - you still get good temple bonuses and you lose 15% unrest at the same time. You also lose all the nasty unrest that was gained from destroying the original temple building and help border provinces convert to your faith too. This can cause large amounts of unrest in bordering enemy provinces and reduction in "heretical" unrest causing faith in yours. I hope this help you. Cheers!

[loyque]

thank you guys your advices have worked , now i can focus on conquering other cities instead of extinguishing rebellion :)

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

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