Historical Figures

[Zaleukos]

Ruling European Monarchs very rarely lead armies in the Empire period (Charles XII, Frederick II, and Napoleon are outliers). It wasnt that uncommon for princes and cousins to command armies though, sometimes as part of their education. Bonnie prince Charlie was for instance defeated by the duke of Cumberland, who was a son of the king. The sensible way to go would be to make it possible and optional to make your king a general, but balance it so that it's only worthwhile it if the king is exceptionally gifted or schooled for it since a young age. PBI:s idea of picking from a list of candidates would be one sensible way to do it.

[The_Reckoning]

I like that idea. You have a general recruitment panel, and your appropriate royals are always there.

They've promised a system so spies and assassins aren't represented like stacks on the campaign map, so I imagine they'll have a lot more menu-based systems.

[G^2]

I agree that the player should be able to select what family members become Generals. However, I wonder how the family stucture will work when you change your goverment from a monarchy. For example in America, most of the US's founders were in the military, but they were not (clearly) from the same family. Also, in Britain at the time, there were many strong states men, like William Pit, who were also not part of the royal family.

Historical figure I'd like to see: William Pit, perhaps one of the greatest prim ministers of all time.

[Zaleukos]

The sensible thing would be for the candidate menu to list non-royals too (and no royals at all for countries like the US or Switzerland). I'd rather have the majority of generals and political leaders be non-historical and only use the historical ones to add some historical spice, since our gameplay is very likely to present extremely ahistorical setups at any rate:p