Woah, crazy man. Totally.... just.

[Anselm]

I thought long and hard about wether I liked the command style in this game. The fact that only family members could be generals, manage cities and the like. I thought that maybe it was a tad unrealistic to presume that no one else except those of royal blood would be competent at doing anything.

And then... shebang!

Today, I've had an epiphany, after a battle, a scroll pops up, and:

"*scroll makes scroll like noise* Man of the Hour
Captain (insert suitably Greek name here) has proven himself a man of... manliness or something"

And the next minute hes been promoted into a full general and has 7 stars (a completely insane amount for someone who wasn't even in charge of the battle concerned). Completely cool huh?

This happen to anyone else? I've not seen it mentioned.

Anselm

[LordKhaine]

Yeah sometimes you can adopt a captain into the family like that. It's rare, but it happens. I got a good 3 star general that way (and he ended up being the faction leader too!)

[Anselm]

Yeah its a really good feature. I mean, I've had captains married in before, but just a promotion for being brilliant... just adds to the realism. Shame it doesn't happen more often really.

[Lord Ovaat]

I've only had it happen twice, but if it happened more often, it wouldn't be a neat, would it?

[TheDuck]

Yeah its a really good feature. I mean, I've had captains married in before, but just a promotion for being brilliant... just adds to the realism. Shame it doesn't happen more often really.

I would actually like the feature to be extended.

Something where you could (as overal faction leader) give certain units rewards that affected their morale (and hence performance). And when a group gets over a certain amount of kills vs. deaths.. or wins a fight that is over a certain ration (say 1:2 or more), that you as the player have the option of promoting the general directly.

I think something like that would rock. I've played games that did that in the past, and I really liked it.