Effect of dieing heroically??

[machinor]

Regarding the family member ratio of 1 per two or three towns... in my current Baktria campaign I have a family member in each city plus already some spare ones as replacements if the older ones die. I had some kind of a mass adoption wave around the point where I conquered my first 2 eleutheroi towns.

[konny]

This often quoted ratio is certainly a myth: provided you don't blitz your neighbours, don't have to many deaths in battle and don't have many FMs sitting in one town (for education or such), you'll usually have more than one male adult per settlement.

[Ludens]

This often quoted ratio is certainly a myth: provided you don't blitz your neighbours, don't have to many deaths in battle and don't have many FMs sitting in one town (for education or such), you'll usually have more than one male adult per settlement.

I have never done systematical investigations, but I have often observed that if the ratio towns to FM increases I get more adoption candidates, while if it decreases adoptions dry up. However, I do admit that in EB I have more FMs than when having a comparable number of towns in vanilla.

[konny]

There are more traits that deal with fertility - even though I can't confirm a visible effect on the decision of the engine which character will be the next to have a child. The speed of expansion is also slower in EB than in RTW, so you'll usually have more time to get your kids grown up before you run out of governors. Another thing might be the 4 turns per year, so your characters simply live longer than in RTW.

I hardly have any adoptions or men-of-the-hour, but real waves of births after taking the first settlements and when I go seriously on conquest. I think 1 FM per two settlements is the absolute minimum before the enginge starts bombarding you with adoptees.

[Long lost Caesar]

actually i reckon bad FM's can BECOME good ones. just send them to war! seriously, within about 4 battles one of my generals gained 5 command stars, 4 management and 3 influence, and now he's my most experienced general. good old cotta