Rebels
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but rebels just seem insanely OP in the early game. I'm playing 6.2 with BB, as England, main campaign (not historical). I started off gathering nearly all of my available troops together and attacking the medium sized rebel stack near London.
Using good tactics I was able to get the battle to 5% casualties for me and 50% for them, but when I engaged in melee my troops routed pretty quickly and a lot of them died. I finished up winning but with more than 50% of my troops dead. I can't afford to hire any more so I gather what I have left and pool the few reserves I had held back.
Fortunately I get a request from the nobles to take Southampton with a $$$ reward, so I go off to siege it. I sit through as much of the siege as possible and whittle down their troops, and manage to take the city without too heavy casualties. I move on to siege the castle slightly to the north, and a stack of 21 veteran rebels comes from Cornwall to the West and sacks Southampton. Oh and I forgot to mention, rebels sacked Nottingham ages ago. How am I supposed to compete with huge aggressive rebel stacks like that so early in the game? Gonna try to restart, I guess, but it just seems so frustrating - I've got zero resources and lousy troops. I can't fix the resources without the troops, and I can't fix the troops without resources. Is it BB? I seem to recall the rebel stacks being just as huge without it.
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Before England is one of the easy nations to play with so the aggressive rebels add more fun. In some cases your settlement have only a few garrison units the rebels occasionally decide to besiege it.
Never seen that before). I thiiiiink they disappeared after I quit the game and then restarted the next day. I believe it's happened to me in multiple playthroughs. I had wondered if it had to do with the faith level of the settlement, but one of them is at 99% iirc.
