Do Rebels obey Zone of Control?

[Displacement]

Gujarati rebels spawn in Surat, walk halfway across the country through multiple garrisoned forts to a province from a different culture group that Gujarat never had a core on, and siege down that (non-ZoC) province.

1. What the hell?
2. No, really, what the hell?

 

[DanubianCossak]

AFAIK there have been instances of rebels not obeying ZOC IF they are spawned inside ZOC where they couldnt walk in ortherwise.

The best thing you can do is probably report a bug with attached save game (otherwise its hard to do anything).

 

[Sfan]

No, they don't respect ZoC or any rule, they can cross ennemy provinces as well which explains a lot here.

What's new is that they are doing extremely random things and go siege provinces out of their culture group for no reason at all which is very annoying, because you can't predict their movement to fight on defensive terrain anymore.

Edit: That's no bug unless I'm mistaken. That's something I see 10 times every game, so if that was a bug I'm sure QA would have found about it singes ages.

 

[PhoenixG]

imo the rebels are bugged in at this moment, but not due forts stuff but due they can run through your whole country. Normally separatist should stay around the cores and/or culture, but no. I can get in to weird situation when they enforce their demands, besides getting their cores back, they also get the sieged down provinces.

 

[peterlj]

Just ha my Yeren rebels run down in korea and burn down a random province in central Korea. Bypassed a fort on the way down aswell. First time i see this weird behavior from rebels. They usually stays within cultural borders.

 

[Bibor]

1. What the hell?
2. No, really, what the hell?

You're clearly not from a former communist country, so you don't know how nationalist rebels work.
They are not actually trying to get independence. They siege down a province or two, hawk a bunch of real estate and factories and then try to flee the country. Judging from your map, Singapore was their probable destination.