i must be stupid but...why cant my generals gain any command stars?

Influence, according to some theories, affects the range of the bonuses that command points give, meaning that while morale bonuses affect the whole army, the command bonuses are only given to units within a certain radius of the general. I have no idea if it's really true.

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Originally Posted by Thaatu

Influence, according to some theories, affects the range of the bonuses that command points give, meaning that while morale bonuses affect the whole army, the command bonuses are only given to units within a certain radius of the general. I have no idea if it's really true.

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hmm, interesting...

well you guys keep mentioning the morale bonus' as if theyre the most important thing. A morale bonus is nice but don't high command ratings make it so a light skirmisher unit can become stronger than a heavy infantry unit when in engaged in melee?

if youre a 9 star general and you send your light skirmishers in melee against a unit of heavier infantry led by a 1 star general, the skirmishers should still defeat the heavy infantry. the morale bonus is nice, it keeps your army from running, but the command stars is what I THOUGHT makes your troops stronger in relation to your enemies troops.

The actual benefits of command bonuses are pretty obscure. It supposedly gives some bonus for attack value and morale, but it's not clear how much.

it seemed to make all the difference in other mods, i guess EB is different in that regard. I'm glad I posted this thread, it really irked me that my generals werent gaining stars. now I can rest easier.

Yeah, attack, defence and morale values are higher than in (at least) vanilla RTW, so command stars have less effect in EB. They probably have some effect, but nothing very notable.

Adding all the boni and mali that a general has by his traits and ancilleries is something you should do frequently, not only to find your best generals (movement points, command bonus in sieges, hitpoints and the like also, not only moral) but also to find your best governors. I recently found, for example, one with an accumulated +65% trade bonus who was running a remote village in the mountains and two with +45% mine bonus that were sub-generals in the main army. Rotating them brought several thousand mne more each turn.


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The "hyperanthropos" was also known in Ancient Greek philosophy and the first one to use it in German was Heinrich Müller in 1664.

I´d really appreciate the ability of auto-calcing battles with realistic results :(

The auto battle culculation really depends on what your AI feels like doing and the difficulties your playing on so it would be hard for the computer to get the culculation right every single time

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Originally Posted by rzzza

what is more beneficial to a general destined for battle than command stars? I'd like to know. In every other mod they seem to be rather important.

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command stars have little effect on the battle. the ancillaries such as armorer, decorated veteran, and the different traits such as warmonger, shield biter, and the other ethnic related one i don't remember. these really effect battles. command stars only effect morale for a certain radius while the ones i mentioned affect the entire army.

By playing on a high campaign difficulty level, you're almost literally asking the AI to cheat in the auto-calc.

Yes, you can always use auto_win, though.