Barracks won't do anything for you.


Read my complete guide to morale and rebellions at the top of this section of the forum

Yep, I struggle with, (and continue to be annoyed by) rebellions. Vorlon's guide is a must read.

I just keep anti tank and anti air in provinces that are likely to rebel, I've never lost a province when I did that, even if they rebelled.

If the rebellion percentage is 25% or less that often works. In one of my games, Brazil had many provinces with anti air rebel to me. I gained several free anti air.

Forts and conquering capitols are best methods.

I have one other idea for large maps.

For the 100 player map, and perhaps 50s, you can also engulf several AI territories that have no units or ICs in them and set it to peace. They will build capitals, and you should do this early on when moral is not a big issue. Its east and you get a gold boost later on too when you decide you need the morale boost. It can be done to active players, but they usually know they have no chance and go inactive quickly. Often they will accept peace for some reason.

Late in large maps, you often are fighting large counties far away from home, and the easy capitals are taken up. To maintain production, I do build forts in my cores in the chance I will need to relocate my capital, but that is a last resort for me because my resource production usually goes down.

The success of the conventional (i.e. non-self-propelled) anti-aircraft regiment as an occupation unit in suppressing rebellions is tied to the unit's strength points being 7 points or greater. Any unit with 7 or more strength points, taking into account terrain and partial damage, will suppress a rebellion in a province with 25% or greater morale. Slightly more strength points may be required if the province's morale dips below 25%, on a sliding scale (see @Lawrence Czl's recent thread where he has deciphered that scale). The beauty of using conventional AA units for occupation units is they are quick (6 hours) and inexpensive to produce when you need them, and they are actually useful for something other than garrison duty.

But remember AA and SPAA units are different; SPAA is an armor-class unit, and loses 50% of its strength in cities and 25% of its strength in mountains -- and rebellions against SPAA units in those terrains might surprise you. Also remember that an L1 conventional AA unit only has 5 strength points, and an L2 conventional AA unit only has 6; only the L3+ AA units have 7 or more strength points.

@MontanaBB she said AT not SPAA. I do the same thing for provinces I want to hold until morale improves. 1 AA and 1 AT. The AT in combo with AA also helps versus those players who like to run a lone LT or AC through back water areas on some long autopilot race course.