Tonnes of men at arms spawn for them too and the general has between 20 and 30 marshal, even populist rebels arent this powerful. Your tributaries will lose to them all the same time, then you need to make the new ruler a tributary.
Hey that is exactly like some of the revolts of Byzantine Pechenegs, which we didn't get. First of the revolts was some 15.000 warriors (perhaps also their families) that Emperor Constantine Monomachos decided to move east against the Seljuks, but after crossing the bosphorus, they decided that they would prefer not to go east and all of a sudden, you have a revolt in your hands. Emperor also handled it terribly, resulting in the only Pecheneg leader that was actually loyal to him (Ioannes Kegen, though it was due to his own interests) dying and years of war.
But the byz were a settled society, where conflicts between pastoralists suddenly arriving past fortified land and farmers will break out, not across the vast steppe once you seize the lands of another tribe. Nomad vassals of settled rulers is basically only a start date set up thing
No, they were mainly settled in empty lands. Tyrach's Pechenegs were settled in deserted lands around Naissos, Serdica and Eutzoplon. But Byzantines being settled is indeed part of the Pecheneg revolts because they were initially forced to be settled in land unsuitable to their lifestyle. Kegen's Pechenegs were settled somewhere around Dorostorum and their land, at least the land some of them settled were better.
oh yeah and they also spawn a over9000 total stats characters, how could i forget that!
Anything which stops Byzatines from blobbing into the steppe (which sadly sometimes still happens) I 100% support! Make it even easier for the rebels to break free against empires so byzantine blobbing happens even less. Or nerf the Byzantine vassals‘ expansion casus belli!
