Total war what is squalor

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 11 months ago. Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Oak Oak 6, 4 4 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges. Nzall Nzall I choose Normal campaign difficulty - keeping people happy is difficult enough on this level. I recruit units in cities where the people are becoming unhappy this keeps population down, which results in a happier population.

I bring town watch type units to guard newly conquered cities. In cities with happiness problems, I build every building that reduces squalor, increases happiness and educates family members in that city e. I use these expert governors to govern large, newly conquered cities.

I change a problem city into the new capital, or move the capital close to the problem cities. When I conquer a city that has happiness problems, I immediately hire mercenaries and train new units with high numbers of soldiers per unit especially cheap town watch types in that city, which reduces population more because the units are huge size , and keeps people happy higher numbers of soldiers makes for more happiness - unit strength seems irrelevant.

This way, my conquering army or some of it is freed up from garrison duties, and can fight battles outside the city. If the city is still unhappy, or if I don't want to keep the local temple for troop-training reasons, then I destroy foreign temples and other buildings that increase local culture , and replace them with my own temples and other buildings. Playing this way, I have experienced very few riots in cities, perhaps?

A comprehensive examination of the causes of squalor by therother is at the Guild. Growth penalties proceed at a tenth the rate of public order penalties e. The effects of squalor can be viewed in the settlement details scroll and is represented by dark rats.

Health buildings do not reduce squalor at all, but they do counteract it. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Rome Total War - Squalor Question.

Thread starter House Julii Start date Oct 12, House Julii Limp Gawd. Joined Feb 18, Messages I recently picked up Rome Total War again, and there is something that I cannot figure out. I know that squalor is the level of poverty in a city, but what affects it? Is it based on things like the size of the garrison, the tax rate, the buildings, the governor, and other things?