In Asylion reclaiming lands is so rediculasly slow. Lands that were lost to starvation keep revolting over and over again. Status is horible. Sympathy takeovers are not keeping the regions under control.
If the regions keep revolting repeatedly, then you're not taking enough time to stabilize them. It's not easy, but you should be able to hold onto them after no more than two TOs. Sometimes you'll lose it the first time no matter what because of horrible starvation, but as long as you got food to it before it went, you can then come back and retake it after the starvation goes away and have a much better chance of holding onto it.
Mind you, you still need to have sufficient police units and priest/courtier/diplomats working on the place to bring the stats up, but it can be done.
