Colonial rebellions in the '33 scenario

Earl Uhtred · Jan 20, 2013

Started a game as Britain / Hard last night and played through to January 1934. I replaced a couple of ministers and moved 1 towards Authoritarian but otherwise did everything I could to reduce dissent.

In that short time I experienced one uprising in Palestine, one in Aden (capturing the base) and one in Belize. These rebels were capable of defeating division size British forces - in the case of Belize it took five divisions to wipe out the defenders by amph assault, and the rebels in Aden cannot be dislodged without sending at least one corps from the Home Country. This seems excessive. The colonies were fairly quiet in the thirties despite the Depression.

Any plans to correct this or will I have to live with it?

RealityGuy · Jan 20, 2013

Earl Uhtred said:
Started a game as Britain / Hard last night and played through to January 1934. I replaced a couple of ministers and moved 1 towards Authoritarian but otherwise did everything I could to reduce dissent.

In that short time I experienced one uprising in Palestine, one in Aden (capturing the base) and one in Belize. These rebels were capable of defeating division size British forces - in the case of Belize it took five divisions to wipe out the defenders by amph assault, and the rebels in Aden cannot be dislodged without sending at least one corps from the Home Country. This seems excessive. The colonies were fairly quiet in the thirties despite the Depression.

Any plans to correct this or will I have to live with it?

it is not history, it is your dissent that is awakening those rebels. How big is your dissent? and also, AA always need at least 3:1 ratio to win, and Aden is a fortress itself I think

Gukpa · Jan 21, 2013

One time Jamaica Rebelled,I need to build a air and naval base in a random Island,send 5 divisions and some airplanes to overrun them,and the battle take two months!

SpaceViking · Jan 21, 2013

To the OP: Your actions made the already high dissent even higher. Wait to muck around with leaders until you get the dissent down.

One time when I very first played I had Denver rise up in arms against the USA. Whoops!

arl · Jan 21, 2013

SpaceViking said:
To the OP: Your actions made the already high dissent even higher. Wait to muck around with leaders until you get the dissent down.

this!
Replacing a minister causes around 1% of dissent increase. Consider that change is immediate, as soon as you select a new one. If you then revert back to the old minister, you receive the 1% dissent hit again.

Earl Uhtred · Jan 21, 2013

I get that, but dissent is already about 20% (IIRC) at scenario start so there is a significant revolt risk in those areas - my actions increased that by maybe 3%.

The Middle East I can understand, the Caribbean less so.

In any case, I played through again, shuffled a few divs around and put them on anti-partisan duties, and had better luck. Onwards

Gort11 · Jan 22, 2013

It's not possible to eliminate the possibility of revolt, even with zero dissent, so you're always going to have the possibility of a revolt in places like the Falkland Islands.

claudefrog · Jan 23, 2013

something should be done about the british ai though. in atleast half of my games (i always play 33 scenario) there is a revolt in palestine and uk do nothing and it becomes a Leninist state.

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Colonial rebellions in the '33 scenario

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