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[LostInAdaptation]

Last time I played Old World there wasn't much of a downside to letting every religion in because you could double dip on their religious buildings if you had enough tiles. It also becomes your religion if you conquer the holy city.

I am pretty sure it will not work on a difficulty higher than noble. It's impossible to cater to all religion leaders when most of them are outside your nation, and having a family not being converted to a state religion will fuck their relation. You will get religion dissent in cities on top of that. There is a way to have many religions and not being raped by rebels, but you have to invest in happiness buildings from the get-go, sacrificing a lot of stone.

 

[NiggerNiggerNigger]

I'm having an itch to play a Total War game again

Which ones are worth playing nowadays?

From most current to oldest of the new generation of TW games:

Pharaoh Dynasties
Warhammer 3 (my recommendation)
Saga: Troy
Three Kingdoms
Thrones of Britannia

WH is the most interesting Total War experience right now with all kinds of shit the other ones don't have (they put a lot of work into making the factions and lore different and interesting, altogether its a huge difference in overall content when each faction feels like a different game).

 

[Jarolleon]

I am pretty sure it will not work on a difficulty higher than noble. It's impossible to cater to all religion leaders when most of them are outside your nation, and having a family not being converted to a state religion will fuck their relation. You will get religion dissent in cities on top of that. There is a way to have many religions and not being raped by rebels, but you have to invest in happiness buildings from the get-go, sacrificing a lot of stone.

That is fair, I mainly played on "The Strong" so laws and legitimacy trivialised happiness and family opinion by the mid game, assuming I got the luxuries they wanted and picked the obviously dev-favoured wholesome chungus laws (Tolerance and Freedom).