Rebel Armies

[SnArF|D]

I just finished my 1st campaign on the "Hard" difficulty as Parthia.
Dureing my campaign I noticed the rebel armies were reaching ridiculous sizes and a few even had the nerve to seige a few of my cities. I beat them back, but it wasn't easy. Even at the start of my campaign 2 rebel armies were already idleing in my territory. And both were already up to 3x bigger than any army I had. I waited 4 turns hopeing they would leave, and they did, but if they wouldn't have, I would have been in some trouble. I also learned early that "devastation" can become a serious problem, if you let enemy armies idle in your lands. They seem to have a mix of all unit types as well. After I had conquered egypt, I was being attacked by rebel's bearing Carthage and Roman units. I couldn't figure out how rebel's got ahold of Roman units or Carthage. Even Greek units managed to find there way into a few rebel armies I had fought.

What i'm wondering is were these rebel armies really this large in real life?

[coffebean]

Well if the rebels were like peasents n stuff then yes, but if the rebel army had more professinal soldiers then no, they wouldnt be that big.

[SnArF|D]

I would have to think during Roman rule rebel's weren't a very serious problem. I really havent heard or read much on rebel's being a issue with for anyone dureing Roman rule. I'm sure they existed, but they were most likely smaller bands of poorly armed outcasts or peasants.

[Casius Cherea]

and what about civil wars? losers were always called rebels
and gladiator uprisings (most famous was lead by spartacus and was realy pain in the ass of republic)
but if you think they got to big armies you can change respawn rate in descr_strat.txt