England & rebel armies

**Tamerlain** · March 25, 2007, 10:45 AM

Hi all let me lead off with saying what an absolutely fantastic mod this is, enjoying it immensely!

Now some background before my question, I'm playing an England campaign where I have all of the island + Caen under my control and the Scots are dead. Have yet to set foot on Ireland though and here's why...

I had a full stack rebel army led by "Sean the Mauler" (a 5 or 6 star general) appear and besiege Edinburgh. No problem I thought, swiftly moved a full and half stack their and broke the seige, annhilated his army and killed the general. Quickly dumped my armies back into cities to minimize the financial damages and returned to gearing up for my conquest of Ireland. 3 turns later guess who's besieging Edinburgh again? So again I attack, annhilate and kill Sean the Mauler off. several turns later he appears yet AGAIN and this time I am thinking ok, maybe he made good on his escape the last 2 times so I'll ensure the job is done this time by assassinating him. After several attempts I finally get the thorn in my side named Sean the Mauler.

Ok great, only problem being is now from repeated sieges on Edinburgh I have had to lift with sizable armies I'm now running seriously in the red and am basically totally bankrupt (like -13,000

) So I figure ok will do what I have to to come out of bankruptcy and hold off on my Ireland campaign for the time being. Release mercs, disband high maintainance units etc etc. starting to come back at about 1-1.5K / turn out of debt. This sets me back a long time in my plans but whatever, no one said being king was going to be easy. Well I was willing to accept all this until the start of my last turn. Guess who's marching on Edinburgh YET AGAIN with a full stack army, and his cousin Watt the Mauler with a half stack army marching on London? That kind of broke my resolve there.

After the lengthy telling of the tale does anyone know why this is happening, or can anyone offer some advice on how to resolve this? I feel like I am bashing my head against the wall at this point...

Anyhow thanks in advance and again a great mod!

**Tamerlain** · March 25, 2007, 11:21 AM

erm, nevermind found my answer elsewhere, feel free to delete this since I was being stupid.

**Premaximum** · March 25, 2007, 11:32 AM

For future reference, and for anyone viewing this thread who doesn't know:

These rebels spawns occur when your capitol (or any original capitol you've taken) drops below Green happiness. It's a percent chance each turn it's not green that these stacks will spawn.

This is being changed in the next version, the rebels will be split into two smaller stacks.

**HIGGUM** · March 25, 2007, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Premaximum

For future reference, and for anyone viewing this thread who doesn't know:

These rebels spawns occur when your capitol (or any original capitol you've taken) drops below Green happiness. It's a percent chance each turn it's not green that these stacks will spawn.

This is being changed in the next version, the rebels will be split into two smaller stacks.

OOHHH that's why they spawn, i had this issue but wasn't sure what was goin on, thought it was one of the civil war traits.

**missu** · March 25, 2007, 11:38 AM

thanks a lot, premaximum,
i was just trying to find out...

**Tamerlain** · March 25, 2007, 02:35 PM

I also found getting the king of England crowned king of scotland helped a great deal in reducing the spawns. it's been quite awhile in my campaign now since the rebels spawned, and just now they spawned and besieged London. which was tolerable since I am now opertaing out of the red again. (thank god!)

**Origin_Unknown** · March 25, 2007, 02:52 PM

how do you do that? i sent my english king into edinburgh after i desktoyed the scotts but no scottish crown?

**Premaximum** · March 25, 2007, 03:25 PM

You might have had eight retinue already, in which case you wouldn't receive the crown. Probably the worst thing about this mod is that your retinue gets maxed out fast. I wish there was a way to get rid of the maximum.

**missu** · March 25, 2007, 03:56 PM

i actually think there is, but i forgot where...

no, i was wrong. at least i haven't found it right now.
you can set the number of children you can have, but only the first four show up on the family tree.

**Tamerlain** · March 25, 2007, 04:00 PM

yeah think 8 ancillaries(sp?) is the hardcoded max. and also if you have room I am not sure if it makes a difference or not but I also dropped the duke of Edinburgh title on my king and he received the crown.