Chivalry and dread. Quick question. [Archive]

PickledGecko

11-12-2006, 02:36

The manual says that having high chivalry gives your troops a moral bonus and that high dread reduces the enemy soldiers moral.

So, if i kill prisoners my dread goes up. But, if I have high chivalry and I kill pirsoners I lose chivalry, right? They're both the same, just different ends of the spectrum?

Is there a negative effect for either? What I mean is, is there any point in trying to strike a balance?

If I have max chivalry I get a really high moral bonus. If I have max dread my enemy get a really high moral penalty.

So, if I strike a balance, I get no bonus at all? Therefore, if I have a general with 1 dread point, it would be better to make sure he gets higher dread points, rather than weakening him by doing something chivalrous and putting him back to zero?

econ21

11-12-2006, 02:39

Yes, I'm coming to the same conclusion. Sad as it is for a person in my job to admit it, but moderation is a bad thing.

Marius Dynamite

11-12-2006, 03:10

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

scourgeofrome

11-12-2006, 04:01

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

Bright side:Early warning sign for attacks.Though it shows some stupidity on his part.

ByzantineKnight

11-12-2006, 04:02

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

:laugh4: lol :laugh4:

You might get like heratic traits if you have loads of dread...

eefums

11-12-2006, 04:32

If you have a very chivalric general, do great deeds and go crusade and such with him..but I'd execute rape and pillage with a dreadful one :). I wouldn't try to get into the gray ambiguity with it.

shifty157

11-12-2006, 06:29

I believe there are also bonuses/penalties for things like city management.

Furious Mental

11-12-2006, 08:23

If you capture prisoners, isn't the bonus for going the middle road (ransoming them) that you get a ton of money?

alpaca

11-12-2006, 17:11

Presumably Chivalry and Dread also govern a lot of traits, which means that you'll probably be more likely to get greed or similar traits that increase squalor and stuff if you have high Dread, and you'd more likely get generous traits that decrease tax income with high Chivalry. No idea really, I don't have the game yet ;)