Strange Happenings

[Stonewall]

Something very strange happened to me in my last IGC game. I was playing as Holland and had started a small cloniual empire in America (Manhattan, Chesapeake, Roanoke) all with level 4 and 5 colonies. All of a sudden revolts started breaking out in my colonies for no apparent reason. I had +3 stability with max tolerance for Cathoilics and the Jean Calvin event had yet to occur. I clicked on the revolt risk number in the city screen (0%) and it told me that colonies were too small to revolt...tell that to the rebel scum that killed half my city. Is this revolt natives attacking me? I don't think so, because usually when the natives revolt, they take control of the city if is is unguarded and the event title is "Native Uprising" or something like that. The rebel scum just massacre half my population. Is this supposed to happen?

 

[Stonewall]

One more thing, whats up with pirates roaming the Dutch European coastline?

 

[Dawgboy]

Any other colonial powers near you? If their rebels were successful, they usually move on to the nearest provinces. Should have just taken them over though if they were only at 4 or 5. Did you have troops in the provinces?

 

[BiB]

What Dawgboy said. I once was run over by Dutch rebels in America.

 

[Stonewall]

I had a level 2 colony in Manhattan and a level 6 colony in Chesepeake. The Brits had a level 1 trading post (10 guys) in Delaware. Other than that, the whole of N.America was untouched. I can't imagine that a roaming band of 3 or 4 guys from Delaware could have devastated my colony in Manhattan from 248 people down to 51. And yes, I had a 4/1 garrison in Manhattan. Thats why the event was so perplexing to me, I would expect something like this in a undefended terrotiry, not in a guarded small colony with absolutely zero chance of revolt...at least according to the city info screen. Oh, well, in the end it was only a small loss that can easily be rebuilt. But it kind of annoyed me nonetheless...damn undocumented features

 

[BiB]

Civil War ?

 

[Marcus]

This happenes, I've had it happen in my 1.08 game when trying to colonize Goa, first I pay 80d to ship those ingrates there then they rebel on me, forcing me to kill them and reduce my population. Very Weird, Very annoying. Maybe the local Governor is just an a$$hole who you want to rebel against (with 200 guys, while my 5000 guys stand guard in case of Native attack, good luck).

 

[laurent]

The same thing just happened to me. Also in America in a 0% revolt province (colony, actually). But since I happened to have a standing army in this exact province, and it was a tiny revolt, it hasn't been an issue.

I don't think it was a a roaming band of revoltees since the neighboring provinces (belonging to other countries) hadn't a rebel flag, nor a standing army which could have retaken the province meanwhile....But I can't be sure...Could the rebels have come from another province, further away? I believed they always attacked the provinces they entered and moved only when victorious....

 

[KingEdwardIII]

Since many countries sent their "unwanted" citizens (such as criminals) to the colonies, perhaps this is the game's representation of those citizens' unrest, despite the fact that there is no clear revolt threat.

 

[unmerged(3236)]

it happened to me to, in finnmark.
it was finnmark which recolted, it was not a army from a city next to it. i have a screenshoot of it