![]() The target can't do a thing about it, while you farm them dry. Raids can be conducted on countries you have a truce with.Amoral? The game encourages it, especially against targets that won't be conquered by you within the next century or so. Considering how often you can raid for slaves and how slow the natural population growth is, it is possible to depopulate entire shorelines in some backwater regions. After establishing yourself as a regional power, there is nothing preventing you from just farming globally, simply set up footholds at fringes of your existing naval range. Once you have the ball rolling with slave-backed economy, that AE turns into being just a number. In reality, they can neuter completely Early Game Hell for any minor country or a city-state, since you can quickly double or triple the size of your starting economy, while simultaneously bleeding your targets of population. On paper, it incurs Aggressive Expansion penalties that aren't worth it, 1 point per 1 pop snatched. It's still very powerful for those who can use it. In addition, the perk itself is restricted to cultures who can access Greek, Persian and Levantine traditions. When it reaches 0, the province outright rebels. note Players lose control of provinces (can't build buildings, move slaves etc) when provincial loyalty drops below 33 you also cannot add freemen pops via military colonies once provincial loyalty drops below 33. This was eventually balanced by having the provincial loyalty decrease by 15 per freeman pop added.It is particularly potent when building a new city in a sparsely populated province or when Settling the Frontier of freshly conquered territory with a loyal population of your own culture and religion. And if the province in question has slave pops, you can relocate it and then settle it with some more soldiers. In practical terms, it means you can generate population out from a vacuum, as long as you don't mind extensive micromanagement. If a country can have them, any army that has at least 10 cohorts in it can settle any given province that has less than 5 pops, adding freemen pops (the one responsible for manpower) out of thin air.
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