How to control a city?

[Rycalawre]

Hiya!

First, we want to say: We took a good purpose for year 2008 not to write whineposts again -so, this ain't a whinepost, it is a help request!

We still playing Baktria on VH/H and we fight Palava up in the north and Saba in Arabia. When we capture a city of them, it goes like this: We capture the city, it has a deep red head. We have no other choice than exterminate population. But that doesnt help. With a full-stack army in the city, the head is still red. When they riot, they kill about 500 soldiers! So, we have to move the army out of the city, let them riot and recapture the city through riot.
Then, we capture the city again, exterminate the population again, and then it becomes not good, but tolerable.
Is there anything we can do to hold the city without killing the whole population?

Then, we have problems with cities we captured from Arche. The more they grow, the angrier and lossier they get. We had to treat already two cities, that goes like this: Move the army out of the city, let it riot and recapture through riot, take the city again and exterminate the people. Quite brutal, but can you give us tips to solve this problem in a more human way?
We try it already throug "resettlement", it works, but not very good.

Thank you! Rycalawre

[Charge]

Being a modder, I would say open export_descr_buildings.txt, and add happiness/law bonus to higher city levels. Can show if needed.

Other solutions won't give much effect..

[Rycalawre]

yeah, that would be nice! thanks!

[Hooahguy]

it may also have something to do with the difficulty you are playing at, i dont know. i personally dont think playing at H for battle is too wise, but then again, you may be a better commander than me, but thats your choice.

[Hax]

The problem is that the EB team has tried to balance every unit stat, and recommends playing on M.

If you play on any other difficulty, you'll screw up the balance :p

[Midnj]

The problem is that the EB team has tried to balance every unit stat, and recommends playing on M.

If you play on any other difficulty, you'll screw up the balance :p

My biggest beef with vanilla EB (in an otherwise spectacular mod and the only thing keeping RTW on my HD) is how vulnerable everything is to rear-cav charges. This wouldn't be a problem if the AI was better about protecting its flanks, but typically it commits way too much to the initial scrum leaving its flanks totally unsecured making rear-cavalry charges a reality 10 seconds after the initial lines meet.

I wanted to mod my EDU to +4 morale across the board, but discovered it's easier just to play on H heh.