Nobody likes the Rebel Scum

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Playing as Prussia in the 1836 game, I noticed that the minor German countries have a lot of rebellions, and many of them have no standing army, or a really scrawny one. Austria and the larger minors with defensive alliances (Hanover, Bavaria, etc) would wait a few days and then send troops to fight the rebels - and them march home after the battle. Never seen that before in EU.

Then one day while crushing one of my own nationalist rebellions, I noticed that the rebels had a negative modifier for shore bombardment. The only ships nearby were neutral Danish ones. Ironic, considering that I took the province from them a few years before...

 

[Emp_Palpatine]

Rebels are actually "at war" with every nation.
If you are allied with someone, that power might send you troops, too.

 

[Garuda]

All nations dislike rebels. Rebels will take a negative modifier for bombardment from the warships of any nation that has an adjacent fleet off shore.

 

[Jlop985]

Once, as China, I was in a war against Brazil, and rebels took a Brazilian province. I was waiting for the battle to end so I could take the province, but the battle kept going on forever. I then thought that maybe the ships covering the coast of the province were prolonging the battle, so I moved them. Days later, the rebels won, and I could fight them and take the province. Apparently, the ships target the rebels and the enemy, lowering their combat efficiency and thus slowing the battle down to a crawl.