My soldiers are all deserting!

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In my Japan game now, I've been having a steady industralisation and expansionist policy since the Meji Restoration event, annexing Korean and Russian territory, Yet now in 1878 my revolts seem to mainly come from soldiers defecting to rebels.

How can i prevent this?

 

[Talquin]

what is the units loyalty? if they don't have a commander the default units have a chance to rebel.

what are the pop's militancy?

 

[Orm]

In my Japan game now, I've been having a steady industralisation and expansionist policy since the Meji Restoration event, annexing Korean and Russian territory, Yet now in 1878 my revolts seem to mainly come from soldiers defecting to rebels.

How can i prevent this?

Use generals that have a reliability bonus (or at least no reliability penalty). A military command without a leader will have a default -1 to reliability, and given that you may still have native and irregular quality troops (both have lower reliability than regulars) in your army, that could cause them to revolt.

 

[Talquin]

Seem to recall it being said that if the pop that the unit was recruited from rebels or if the unit rebels the pop will have higher mil, am i remember that correctly or was it a opium dream?

 

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Thanks, The revolts stopped once i got a reliable commander.