Think your CIVIL WAR is from Hell? Check out mine!!!

[vladimusmaximus]

So I was playing as Sparta campaign on Very hard (/w Radious mods), conquered almost all the known hellenic/roman world and even some of the barbarians, had great diplomatic relations with everyone for the most part; although I was a minority party big time like 10%. Anyways Civil war breaks out and out of nowhere BAM; 20+ fully stacked armies appear and begin to take over EVERYTHING, they're completely unbeatable and essentially game over.. WTF?? :mad:

[Ferdiad]

Got to lower dem taxes.

[Bilbo ballbags]

LOL.... Where is Xerxes when yo need him?

[Jester]

lol how is one supposed to beat that?

[vladimusmaximus]

lol how is one supposed to beat that?

Well, you see you just can't possibly beat those odds. If I send all of my armies over, I still only have half of their power; then they destroy me and all of the other provinces now left alone rebel and take my settlements, then no more food or money for me. Or, I take over and chill out in Italy, maybe take Alexandria, bide my time and see what happens :/

[General David]

Wow that's really odd, good luck with that. I also had a civil war all of the sudden while playing as Rome against the Senate Loyalists. They were able to conquer most of the province of Italia while all of my armies were fighting overseas. This is when you really need to make the most out of garrison armies in order to kill the as much of the rebels as you can.

[gaunty14]

Nice to see CA addressed the overpowered rebellions following Empire and Napoleon (don't remember the STW2 ones).

[VektorT]

You are such a noob!

Why didn't you researched machineguns and ballistic missiles before that!? Hahaha! You really should play Civilization before moving to Total War, kid!

[Anderssons91]

And im sitting here, longing for a civil war so i can make my roman republic to an empire
Now im not so sure

[Naked Emperor]

I had the same, playing Vh with Radious mod and they are quite beatable. I had only 3 standing armies when the civil war broke out and in 10 turns I have whittled them down to about 10 stacks. You have to bleed them, strike where they are vulnerable, sink their transports with your navy, fight every settlement fight just to kill as many men as possible.

All my stacks were in the middle east when the civil war started and they didnt even manage to take all my settlements in the balkans. I quickly raised a pike army and held the province capital of Thracia against stacks and stacks until my depleted army got assaulted by 11.000 Spartans. I managed to kill half of them so they did their job of bleeding the enemy until my 3 uberstacks arrive and will mop up the rest

[AlyssaFaden]

That's just silly, it's utterly, utterly silly.

[Kenios]

Fight a battle of attrition. You may not be able to wipe them out at one go, but if you fortify every place they attack, they will keep losing men. So what if you lose an entire stack? Take down 2-3 stacks with you before your stack dies heroically. It's not like they can swarm you all at once, there is a limit of 40 units in a reinforcement battle. Before long, the rebel horde will be cut down to something more manageable.

[Leggy]

I think someone is a little angry.

[Spear Dog]

Did anyone have one of these mass rebellions before the patches? maybe this is CA's way of saying - "so you think this game is easy?"

[Langer Kerl]

Im convinced this borders ridiculousness. I feel sorry for you, and hope you do not lose your campaign to that. If you like you can come over in the other thread (or request a merge) and discuss the nature of those civil war events; dont worry, I fully accept your trouble is way bigger than mine and will not try to overshadow you in any way

[andymate]

Are you using Radious mod? I believe the size of the rebellion is linked to the difficulty and your max armies. On normal with Rome i had 9 senate stacks form and i had 9 armies in total.

[Gazi Husrev-Beg]

Shouldnt they experiance food shortage haha...So whn civilwar breaks out, does just troops show up or do even some provinces that support #other# party join in?

[Langer Kerl]

In my case, only the capital turned hostile and the stacks appeared out of thin air around it. They quickly spread out conquering my Empire from the inside out, though. They currently have no source of food supply but do not seem to suffer starvation.

[Zipzopdippidybopbop]

I had a rebellion on legendary as Macedonia. Not as many armies, but not far from either.

Had to recall all my forces. In several piecemeal battles which spanned real time of 16 hours I brought them to heel, losing half my Asian conquests in the process. Jesus Christ they were tough as hell.

[Spear Dog]

I had a rebellion on legendary as Macedonia. Not as many armies, but not far from either.

Had to recall all my forces. In several piecemeal battles which spanned real time of 16 hours I brought them to heel, losing half my Asian conquests in the process. Jesus Christ they were tough as hell.

This should put the contention that RTW2 isn't immersive to bed.