Castille's magic patriots

[TNZ81]

Playing as Aragon in ironman mode I finally managed to find a perfect moment to punch Castille down into the ground and get some of my claims.

Just as I get a numerical advantage, the land I sieged from them suddenly get revolts; Castillian patriots. Not a few, no about 5x their army's size. Of course they are friendly to Castille, so they are suddenly blessed with a 70K army in 1486 after a long exhausting war.

Is this nonsense or what? As if they still had a pool of manpower hidden in rebellious peasants.

 

[IIWW]

known bug. It was said to be fixed, but You're not the first one experiencing it in hotfix

 

[TNZ81]

Oh it's a bug, I just thought it was invented to make me rage. Now I can throw away my ironman game.

To sum it up: first I had to stop my Prussia game because of a technical bug with revolutionary revolts, and now I have to stop my game because of another bug. Normally I never complain at developers because I know how it works but this is just very infuriating!

 

[Xinkc]

So long as the land they're on isn't what you want to take, you should be fine.

 

[TNZ81]

No, they followed me around within Castillian territory. They didn't enter my borders, that's all, but they sieged back everything I took and then just stood around... Until I moved into their borders, then I got the entire stack forming against me again. I lost the warscore from controlling the wargoal and then took stability hits for refusing peace offers...

In general I can't say I've had much luck in that ironman campaign, maybe Aragon is an 'unlucky' nation?

 

[ahyangyi]

Wait, isn't there an event for a occupied nation to choose between:
1) pay some money and have rebels on occupied provinces
2) get some manpower?

 

[Mztr44]

Wait, isn't there an event for a occupied nation to choose between:
1) pay some money and have rebels on occupied provinces
2) get some manpower?

Yes but it's only one army and often they are rebels that are against you anyways. The idea behind them is that either they will be strong enough to hurt the opposition, or at least siege the province so it doesn't get counted in war score. What happened to the OP shouldn't have happened, should have seen peasants or maybe something like particularists but not patriots since they are technically supposed to be rebelling against CastilE due to not being rescued.

 

[hwoosh]

Wait, isn't there an event for a occupied nation to choose between:
1) pay some money and have rebels on occupied provinces
2) get some manpower?

Bingo. Check the event log next time you see these rebels spring up; you'll see Castile having got an event called "Resistance!" or something like that.

You can get this event yourself, though it's less likely that a skilled player will ever let his provinces stay occupied so long. Another time you're likely to see the AI getting this event near the start of the game is the HYW: France tends to occupy England's mainland provinces and sit on them for years before peacing out.