Difficulty effects in battle?

[drone]

A question I've wondered about recently: You invade a province, and have more units than allowed on the battlefield. If you move the highest-starred general to the reinforcements section, what is the overall effect? Does the highest star general that starts on the battlefield count as the general for bonuses, etc, or would it still be the highest involved in the battle? Would this be a way to keep a poor command King from being the general in a fight?

[bozewolf]

A question I've wondered about recently: You invade a province, and have more units than allowed on the battlefield. If you move the highest-starred general to the reinforcements section, what is the overall effect? Does the highest star general that starts on the battlefield count as the general for bonuses, etc, or would it still be the highest involved in the battle? Would this be a way to keep a poor command King from being the general in a fight?

As far as i know: no

The game always selects the highest general available. You *can* of course substitute the default general unit in the pre-battle screen for a reinforcement unit, and I don't think that the default general than gets counted as the general for that specific battle.

[Knight of the Rose]

You can see the effect by swapping say a 4-star general with a 1-star general. The valor marker on all units changes immediatly. I havn't checked if you can keep your king (and your army) out of harms way by doing so, but I would imagine it was possible.

But again, sometimes the game has a difficulty finding the "real" general when assigning a victory.

This needs testing IMHO

/KotR

[Ironside]

You can see the effect by swapping say a 4-star general with a 1-star general. The valor marker on all units changes immediatly. I havn't checked if you can keep your king (and your army) out of harms way by doing so, but I would imagine it was possible.

But again, sometimes the game has a difficulty finding the "real" general when assigning a victory.

This needs testing IMHO

/KotR

This is one thing that really messes things up, the replacement will lead the battle but everything except death will transfer to the default general. And some negative v&v works thruogh even that (the not so bold line).

Had a buggy general once (the former king of a died out faction that I inhierited the lands, but the faction had a civil war that ended up with only the general unit left).
Bascially he was an immortal. He never comanded the battle himself (didn't show up on the battlefield), but he had a stand-in with the general bonues (aka high star general, ended up with 8-stars on def). But that stand-in could die in battle normally and things were normal, except that a new stand-in was chosen.
But unlike his stand-ins he never saw battle (how do you engage with a unit that doesn't exist?) and started to be "not so bold". I don't think I tried this, but I'm pretty certain that he would get good runner if his stand-in ran though.

Yep the game can be pretty wierd sometimes.

[caravel]

Yes, this is a known issue. I've seen battles where vices were gained by more than one general, and where a prince gained the vices even though he wasn't leading the battle. There are also a few bugs that pop up when the king leads the battle.

[Ironsword]

^^ The one bug I usually get when my King leads the battle is 'You have lost.'

Oh wait, that's just my bug from firing up a game at 2am when i'm tipsy.

[Knight of the Rose]

^^ The one bug I usually get when my King leads the battle is 'You have lost.'

Oh wait, that's just my bug from firing up a game at 2am when i'm tipsy.

I get a somewhat more sophisticated version of this, don't know why - but suddently the game charges my line of archers straight into the enemy, cavalry runs into the forrest, and when I *clearly* clicked on the halt button, the game routs my units. Not my fault.



/KotR