Getting others in the sack.

[bovi]

It is random whether a settlement rebels to freemen or it's previous faction. If you destroy their MIC there shouldn't be any nominally powerful units, but the ones that do pop up might be experienced mofos. We cannot control experience or upgrades, only the units in question. Sometimes the engine breaks all the rules we've set up for it too.

[Kham]

When I want to sack a city, I loot it, then destroy all military and commercial buildings and as many of the law/happiness/sanitation buildings as possible without getting a really bad happiness level. If this is possible without a garrison, I abandon it. If not I leave a token force of cheap units.

If you have, say 40% happiness, it does not rebel immediately. If it is within enemy territory, the enemy often captures it before it rebels. And even if it rebels, as has been said before, it is often an eleutheroi town. And if you have destroyed military buildings, it is usually full of levies.

In my Saba campaign I devastated the Seleukid core provinces that way. Sacked about 8 or 9 cities, two of them tiwce. And not one rebeled back to them (vh campaign difficulty, newest build, no other mods).

[PershsNhpios]

Nobody likes this thread very much!

Kham, what you said sounds very similar to what I did, except for this precaution of leaving a certain level of happiness or else leaving a small garrison so that the town will not immediately rebel.
Is this to ensure that the Eleutheroi take the city?
Could you or somebody else elaborate please?

[Sarkiss]

i abandoned Italy as Epirus destroying everything i could and setting taxes on very high. in about 2 turns city turn rebel. same i've done with my most northern province as AS. they turned rebel too. and i've seen many of cities rebelling from a faction they once belonged. many times it happened with my help by destroying happiness buildings and having a spy inside. worked pretty well for me.
though it is a shame that one cannot simply erase city to the ground, some building are impossible to demolish

[PershsNhpios]

G'day Sarkiss!

We must fight again soon!

The situations you have mentioned have all included towns that were from the beginning, loyal to the faction they rebelled from.
This meant they had no other faction as an option, and thus they must give themselves up as Eleutheroi.
The scenario I speak of is infiltrating the country of the enemy and sacking their best cities, completely plundering them and then giving them to the rebels.
I have not yet done this in EB, but in other mods it has only rebelled to the enemy and given them, as stated, the best army that never was.
Hopefully I found something here with what Kham spoke of.
Though I thank your input also Sarkiss, and as mentioned, we hopefully will send armies against each other soon enough- perhaps a two-versus-two, if only others will join.
Perhaps a thread should be made concerning a meeting day for all multiplayers.