The Pickaxe of Politics

**Bregil the Bowman** · 12-08-2007, 13:40

Not being a player of RTW, I am guessing, but I would think religion is less of a factor in rebellion. In MTW you can de-stabilise a province by converting its citizens and/or raising zeal if the governor is not a co-religionist (or not a good one anyway).

**caravel** · 12-08-2007, 16:30

Originally Posted by Bregil the Bowman

Not being a player of RTW, I am guessing, but I would think religion is less of a factor in rebellion. In MTW you can de-stabilise a province by converting its citizens and/or raising zeal if the governor is not a co-religionist (or not a good one anyway).

There is no religion in RTW, only temples that have numerous effects but none of which are religious.

Religion was implemented in BI but I haven't much experience of it. BI puts me off as it just looks like a cheap RTW mod. Also there are catholic priests units in BI that actually go to the battlefield and chant (like the druids in RTW), which I find nothing short of ridiculous.

**sharpshooter** · 12-08-2007, 17:14

Re Religion in RTW BI - it does have big impact. I don't know about RTW vanilla - maybe they added it in.

Having a ruler or governor with a different religious culture - e.g. Roman, Barbarian, Zoroastrian, produced religious unrest - sometimes severe. When a territory was conquered the original temple remained. The unrest intensified if you demolished it and built a new temple from your own culture straight away so there was a quandary about unrest and conversion rates.

It was a bit tricky to manage, and took longer, I recall, to reach a conversion level that lowered the unrest. However, the AI took into account the number of family members (generals) and agents you had in a province to modify unrest generally. There were no separate priest agents.

So, all those untalented family members ended up standing around behind the main army - while being careful their v&v's didn't upset things more. At least they had something to do ...