1) I'm playing as Pontos and I do NOT want to run in to AS/ptolemy territory yet. So I took Antiocheia and then completely sacked it - i mean , completely destroyed everything i could. It was a huge city so i figured once i pulled out my troops, it would be an unpreventable revolt for the stupid AS. well, an army of severly beaten up AS (6 or 7 units with no more than 8 men each) moved into the city after i left. I waited with glee was they moved, unknowing that they were about to get pwned by eleutheroi.

Boy was I wrong. That stupid army just stayed there, and out of nowhere every turn buildings that normally take 10 or 4 turns (type 1 AS gov't, some stupid low level temple), start popping up on Antiocheia. I get angry and send in 2 spies to lower their public order and an assassin to sabatoge the type 1 gov't. The spied infiltrated successfully and the assassin did his duty, Still nothing. WHAT THE (#*&(&#$ DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET THEM TO REVOLT???

2)Why do rebel stacks spawn so often now? did rebels really pop up like this in history? i have to keep two medium sized armies in my provinces so that i can kill those stupid rebels. Can we turn this down? Its really a buzzkill to have to actually play through retarded battles of my army versus 3 persian archers and a pantadapoi. and if i autoresolve, i always lose so many guys , which i find hard to believe because those persian archers are so worthless when I am actually controlling them.

Thanks,