favorite General

Personally one of my favorite things about rtw is the generals. The reason i like rtw better then m2tw is because of the generals. The generals in m2tw are boring knights and kings while in rome there a greeks egyptians africans romans barbarians and eastern people. Now when you explain your general its more your FAVORITE general for instance if you have a ten star command ten star management and ten influence but hes corrupt and drunk and hes not your favorite then dont talk about him. My favorite was a julii general named vibius the great/mighty/orater he was a master(ten star) influence and nine star command he was a straight roman not a drunk or anything, he was a legendary hero and commander and he only lost one close victory against 3 scipii stacks on VERY HARD he also conquered all of europe by himself(no other generals other then son) and destroyed the other familys and senat. not including sythia. My favorit name for him is Vibius the great (roman version): Vibius julius Magnus. Its kinda funny his only son Decius Julius(i think) died trying to conquer britain and later he addopted a roman named Gaius Syrus (later i laughed at the fact his most famous battle was in syria LOL SYRUS:SYRIA) His real nick name was Gaius the cold hearted but i nick named him Syrus asiaticus because he conquered asia.

From my RTW campaigns, my favourite general so far will be from my recent Armenian campaign.
I'd contained all of asia minor, and had just taken Parthia out of the Urals, and the main method of holding of the rampaging Ptolmies was via a fort in the mountain pass of cillicia and cappadocia. I'd had a fort in place for about ten turns, consisting of huge amounts of HA's, some CA's and some basic spears, all lead by one rookie general (who's name i cannot actually remember, but many of his titles, i can!)
After knocking back somewhere in the region of 20 ptolmie stacks, i went on the offensive. By this point he was already known as the defender, and within a few short turns of non-sally battles, he became the horse lord.
He had around 8 stars, 7 influence, and a list of retinues which meant that when attacking, with horse archers, against ptolmies, he had somewhere in the region of 15 command stars.

His cataphract bodyguard was simply unbeatable.

Having taken Tarsus, and then then Antioch i decided to use the advanced facilities there to build up a new army, heavily relying on phalanxes, where i led him into southern syria/phoenica to take Sidon.

His army, led by a man who now had the title of "the conquerer" beat back the first 3 ptolmie stacks that attacked him in one turn, but then the fourth, the fourth succeeded, heavily reliant on chariots, the egyptians put him away for good, but not before he was able to do a huge amount of damage to the final attacking force.

This man bolstered my armenian campaigns by great leaps and bounds.

Me it was with the Macedonians...he had 8 star ,9 of influence
he gained the name Aloes the conquerer,he was god amongst men....to bad I deleted the game.

Oh yeah and he was a roman slayer(+1 command against romans)

I haven't even played a whole campaign, but I still have my faves.

One was a completely insane Roman named Titus the Mad. He had zero of everything, and so I sent him out into the Grecian peninsula with a modest amount of troops to scout out the Macedonians. I had half-hoped he'd be killed, just to keep his equally crazy descendants from populating my family. Anyways, he ended up conquering the whole peninsula from the Macedonians and Greeks and died peacefully 40 years later en route to Egypt, where the latest war had begun.

Unfortunately, he had about 5 kids before that, and now I'm running a madhouse of a faction.

i got a general being called as the great,too bad his name not alexander.........:2thumbsup:

and 2 general called the brave...

In my first ever Campaign, my Julii Faction Leader Flavius the Great conquered Gaul and Germania before dying - peacefully - the year just before I took Alesia and destroyed the Gauls forever.

His heir Lucius the Killer conquered Rome - but due to my n00bness, and Temples of Ceres and Bachus - he and the Julii all turned into randy drunks :laugh4:

I've never had a General called "the Great" since, so I remember Flavius Julius fondly :yes:

I was brutii before technical faults nearly ruined my life. I had a commander turn mad at 18 so i sent him on a suicide mission and he just would not die, straight into phlanaxes and everything. A few years later all the Balklands were mine, asia minor and I finally killed him (by accident) against the egyptians 10 star general. How high can attributes go, command, mangagement and influence? He was a tad of a liability though in tough battles, -4 morale for all troops.

Aloeus: The Brave/Hero/Conqueror/Butcher/Defender

He won his first heroic victory against 2 armies of Julii and Brutti a bit south of Apollonia, when he was 17, fighting beside his King. By the time he died (81) he had conquered -all by himself- all of Hellas (which includes Macedonia of course), Thrace, Dacia, Asia Minor, half of Scythia and also Italy, Sicily, south of Gaul and all Germany. His last one was against 3 full stacks of angry Germans, where he got the "Defender" epithet. The very next turn he died. His personal guard had 3 hitpoints and he himself had 7. 3 golden chevrons. Maxed out in number of bodyguards. 10 influence, 10 command stars, 7 management. King of Macedonia and roughly half the world. He only had heroic victories, apart from 4-5 clear ones... (VH/VH of course) My best general ever.:2thumbsup:

Ahh, those were good, happy times, when I played vanilla...

My Greatest General was when I was playing the Greek Cities and after destroying Macedon,pushing the Brutii back to Rome and conquering all of Greece and just North of that, I set my sights on Asia Minor seeing as you have a city there, the governer was a Eumenius of Sparta ( close to that ) and at this point Pontus,Seleuicids and the Ptolemies were all allies ( strange I know ) and because Seleucids for once had no major threat and Pontus were doing well I was gettin full stack after full stack of eastern infantry and militia hoplites seiging my city and Eumenius spent all his life defending Pergamum,Sidon and Hallacanarsis ( wrong spelling ) from Pontic and Seleucid hordes which gave him around 13 star command , around 10 influence and he had an amazing management ( not sure why ) and he had the nickname Eumenius the Lucky and his traits included " Victory from the Jaws of Defeat " Famous Warrior " Intelligent Risk taker " and others. Not as good as some of your ones but for me who hasn't ever properly finished a campaign is good. :beam:

I've got some good ones, but the recent winner would be Spurius Rabirius in my Scipii campaign.

It's around 200 BC. There are two powers in the East, controlling literally all of Asia and some of Africa: Pontus and Egypt. And they're allied. I'm busy driving Pontus out of Turkey and fighting for my life down in North Africa against the Egyptians.

In 193 Spurius, after getting married into the family, begins fighting. His first battle is with a meager army against two full-stack, high-tech armies of Egyptians, near Tarsus. He wins the battle, gets a heroic victory, and gets a famous battle marker.

Nearly 60 years later, he dies in Antioch after taking the Levant, the Nile cities, sweeping around through the desert, up past Seleucia, the Parthian starter cities, and finally conquering the last Pontic city, Hatra. He departs as my faction heir and with the rare epithet "the Great."

He may not have conquered as much land as the others, but he took on the two largest non-Roman empires at the height of their power and absolutely destroyed them.

Gaidres, in my thracian campaign. He had the trait cruelly scarred and a couple of other traits that gave him something like fifteen hitpoints. He was also my faction leader and his bodygaurds had 3 gold chevrons. Him and his bodyguards ended up killing upwards of 3,000 brutii. In my Epeiros campaign in EB I have a general which I'll write about tomorrow. He is like a perfect human being with absolutley no flaws. He is currently leading a revolution in Italy.(As I said I'll talk about him and his little adventure tomorrow after I crush those filthy treachorous romans with him)