I love this game, there, I said it!
In my Massalian game, I adopted a Spartan general into my family. 17 years old, Sharp/Chara/Vigorous. He had a crap load of amazing traits including some I've never seen before. Excelled in Spartan Agoge, and some others that I don't remember the spelling to. I was ready to make him leader there and then but for role playing sakes, I didn't and through him into the Massalian schooling system for 4 years.
When he was done, he had acquired even more amazing traits. Not a single negative one. He even had the trait that said "Desired Heir". The people of Massalia WANTED him to become their next leader. Sweet!
So at 22, his military career started. He would follow my faction leader/main general in his campaigns till he was at least 30 before being able to lead his own troops. A few years later, while campaigning in Iberia, we laid siege to a Carthaginian town. (They kept threatening us "Pay 5000 or we will attack"). We greatly outnumbered our enemies 3:1. As soon as the battle begins, the Carthaginian Heavy Cavalry suicide charge straight into my Spartan hoplite ranks (Stupid), I only lose 5 Spartans in that entire battle.....and my beloved adopted Spartan general was one of them. Right off the bat, as soon as the battle begins he dies
What takes into account whether a general will die or not in a unit? I've had countless battles where I surround the enemy general with several spearmen units, and the enemy general would be the only one left in his unit, and still manage to escape through endless ranks of spearmen. Yet in this situation, the enemy cavalry ran head first into my Spartan spears, and ended up killing my general who was also protected by spearmen on his flank as well.
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