13-12-2001 16:09									#31
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I have been fighting a war as a French Monarch democracy for about 10 turns now, the date being around 1400, and made one startling discovery that hasn't been picked up on yet.

I built a large army of knights and went off to take a few English border cities. I basically just kicked off with no warning and pretty quickly (3 turns) had two new cities under my belt.

So far so good - no revolting cities.

Then the English dropped a few troops off by Galley and took a small provincial town of mine the next go - there was no way of stopping this.

The next turn 80% of my cities went into revolt.

I reloaded via autosave and rush built a strong defense unit which was enough to save the city and hey presto no revolts to speak of. I am still waging the war and, as long as I maintain a decent (although not excessive) level of luxury there seem to be no revolts.

So it would seem that loosing one of your own cities to the enemy under democracy greatly increases war wearyness.