How do you defeat another large empire?

[Achab]

By the way, what bonuses does loyal troops give on battlefield?

+10% discipline for the troops when commanded by the general they are loyal to.
Also they protect him or her against assassins, useful especially in MPC.

 

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Achab
+10% discipline for the troops when commanded by the general they are loyal to.
Also they protect him or her against assassins, useful especially in MPC.

Puritan
I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding the tool-tip; either the character is paying part of their upkeep, or is paying them extra.

If I understand this correctly.
High charismatic general have larger chance of gaining loyal cohorts.
The general is paying loyal cohorts out of his own pocket (not from the state coffin).
When commanded by paying general they kills 10% more enemy soldiers in battle.
If the general rebels his cohorts are most likely to rebel with him.

Must the general be in command of the loyal cohort to gain assassin protection?

 

[Achab]

If I understand this correctly.
High charismatic general have larger chance of gaining loyal cohorts.
The general is paying loyal cohorts out of his own pocket (not from the state coffin).
When commanded by paying general they kills 10% more enemy soldiers in battle.
If the general rebels his cohorts are most likely to rebel with him.

Must the general be in command of the loyal cohort to gain assassin protection?

The general needs to be amidst his loyals to be protected of course.

He pays 25% of the unit salary, not the full payroll, but it helps for sure. With overlimit army it can easily make him broke.

My poor Pyrrhos got negative ballance to such extend that even his sons become bankrupt when they had to deal with the negative heritage. And they inherited the loyal troops as well.

 

[louie97]

i think that's ok... for Rome and other republics. That was what pretty much started to happen as the armies grew bigger and the allegiance to the leader increased... IMO monarchies should have civil wars mainly from dynastic issues, i.e. at every succession there should be a huge chance of civil war if the heir is not strong enough... while civil wars from generals should be much less common.

Maybe this could be achieved by adding a a government type trigger to the become ruler ambition? But even if the pretenders and other royal family members have that ambition, they hardly start a civil war and if they do it's usually a weak one and easily crushed...

On a related note, i was looking at the internal politics events and noticed that some of the monarchy events don't fire for imperium government, is this WAD?

but irl didnt they usually rebel after the war was over?