Able to buy unit leaders, army commanders

[MagyarKhans Cham]

I am talking here about being able to be able to adress a certain commander to your army/unit where he brings some boosts on your unit/army stats like valour+1, or even -1 which would save u florins.

[Xer0]

Like that you will get generals like Saladin?

[Kraellin]

cham,

i dont quite understand. since i know yer a multi person, are we talking for multi here or single player or both?

[1dread1lahll]

Mag I assume this is for multi player....I think this may be to hard to do and get the ever elusive game "balance" we chase but never seem to catch,. so i must vote no.....

[MagyarKhans Cham]

its ment for mp and sp, since these things will only live payed by the SP market.

well maybe its best suited for a fantasy totalwar where u can also buy -magical- banners and stuff. if we all accept its less balanced and skip teh competition part than it could be fun.

[hoom]

But you get generals all over the place in SP some good, some bad.
I have certainly purchased the odd good general if he happens to be for example in a nearby province, in a relatively small army (depends on my economy really), normally rebel and say 5+ stars, then he is likely to be headhunted for my grand imperial army.

For MP, I have long thought that you should be able to buy stars for your generals' unit.
No doubt, people would fail to understand the need to adopt your tactics, and just complain about how the game is unballanced...

[Shahed]

It would be awesome to be able to buy your army commander with V&V's in MP. That would make it a lot more realistic, as the V&V's would put in some added aspects to the army structure http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
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It would also help us break the valor 4 limit which personally I don't appreciate greatly since it sort of evens out the field but waaaayy too much.

In SP I strive to have high ranking gens with positive V&Vs to max the advatages in battle. I love that aspect of this game and would love to see valor 6-8 units under a strong gen in MP http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[scsscsfanfan]

I feel the ways of getting army generals currently on SP is not ideal - eg. a bit odd that a MAA general commands knights. I think a general unit should be a uique unit with the best cavalry that that faction can get - something like the king/heir royal knight unit, you can train or buy them from inn/academy ect.
no sure how other people feel.

[Magyar Khan]

i agree, u can read in the statsfiles there is an option for it. the game could use that optiuon while hosting a game: "Use realistic/elite commander"

[Shahed]

Yah I agree too.

Makes little sense that you cannot choose the general's unit. It would be ideal if you could retrain the gen into whatever unit u want. Although personally I belive that the general should be a strong cavalry unit in most battle circumstances.

[Bob the Insane]

If you mean MP, then that would be an excellent feature...

It could be a additional upgrade to a unit..

Famous unit commanders could be available depending on faction and period choosen...