Whichever side you choose a small battle will then occur (if you havent poured in additional units from outside regions which I wouldnt reccomend) and you will most likely win, if you have followed my tips. If you have upset your capitol region you will get a notice saying there has been a revolition but a regeme army has risen up to defend the capitol you then get a choice to either support the regeme or the revolutionaries, if you didnt have any armies in your capitol region when it rose up I would strongly reccomend siding with the rebels as they are allways given a more powerful army to start with and get given most of the units that you send from outside regions however if you think you can hold out long enough to recruit units from within your capitol be my guest and put down the traitors. On the next turn you will get a notice saying a revolt or revolution has occured, if it is the former a rebel army will appear in your region (usually five or six units) and attack the regional capitol immidiately if it is badly garrisoned or suicidally after a few turns of raiding however if your garrison is more powerful than the rebels it may still be wise to wait for them to attack as if you sally forth to fight them they may flee and take the ungarrisoned regional capitol next turn which can be irritating. On the first turn of unrest you will receive a 'letter of demands' from the settlements comparative upper class (middle class in a republic, nobility in an absolute or constitutional monarchy) or a notice that the workers have been on strike, from the comparative lower class (lower classes in an absolute monarchy or republic and middle classes in a constitutional monarchy) on the second turn you will either get another 'letter of demands' from the comparative upper class or you will have a riot in the region which usually allmost destroys one building (you can avoid damage to buildings by having armies in the towns and the regional capitol however if all are occupied by an army a building will be damaged at random, use this to direct damage at cheap buildings).

Revolutions/revolts are triggered by three consecutive turns of unrest in one social class, in a region (you can acheive this by raising taxes, destroying cultural or governing buildings or removing garrisons).

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