Priest and Spies

[bmalik420]

I'm playing as the Moors and trying to take over Portugal without invading it. I'm sending in spies and imams but the city doesn't rebel. I heard if you send enough, the city will rebel and you can go take it over without a war with the country. It'll revolt and public order will decrease but after a couple of turns, it will stabilize. Any hints or tips? Thanks.

[Shahed]

Hi & Welcome !

My steps:

• Train 6 Imams.
• Keep 6 Imams in high Islam province till they get a monk each.
• Meanwhile train 12 Assassins and as many spies as you can.
• Move Imams to target location.
• Train spies on high chance targets.
• Once province hits 75% Islam...
• Move your trained spies around target, maybe ONE inside.
• Do not end the trun inside the province with the reconnaisance spy.
• Destroy all the law and happiniess buildings using your trained assassins, in the same turn
• Move ALL spies inside the building in the same turn.

You can do it with less, but this is a guaranteed rebellion, ceteris paribus.
Note: Capitols seem harder to manipulate.

[FactionHeir]

Doesn't always work especially on VH (or so I think).
Example, I had captured Alexandria and trained a lot of bishops eventually to convert Cairo, a huge city with a garrison of 2 saracen militia and a few archer militia.
I converted the region to 98% catholicism, had infiltrated with several mid skill spies and destroyed some stuff with assassins. Yet while the PO would initially drop to 25%, the next turn it would be above 100% even though the AI moved out half its garrison and didn't have a race track.

Maybe the AI can prevents its cities from rebelling on VH? wouldn't know.

[Shahed]

FH: Might have a bonus ?

BM420:Bee maalik char soo beesss ! kya samjhay ? samjhay ya phir say bata'uon ?

[FactionHeir]

Interesting, you speak Urdu.

[bmalik420]

Just my birthday, April 20th.

[madalchemist]

The AI cheats about public order within its settlements by boosting it up; it's harder to get a rebellion.