Best Way to Gain Command Stars

[Grriffon]

@griffon
your only fault, is to equip them with large stack of the armies all the time, so what's the point to punch down 300 men rebels with 1500 veteran hoplitai? If you re going against 300, split your army so your general only fight them with 150 units... keeping you outnumbered, that was the way to got many stars (but scars as well)

I don't fight 300 rebels when I have my full stack Juggernaut. I send it directly at capitols like Rome, Athenai, QarthHadast, etc. I will have MULTIPLE full stack vs. full stack battles with it, often fighting even two full stacks with my single full stack. I get heroic victories, just not many command stars.

[Cute Wolf]

Originally posted by Griffon:
I don't fight 300 rebels when I have my full stack Juggernaut. I send it directly at capitols like Rome, Athenai, QarthHadast, etc. I will have MULTIPLE full stack vs. full stack battles with it, often fighting even two full stacks with my single full stack. I get heroic victories, just not many command stars.

Are you sure you charge your FM bodyguards to smash enemy line? I think you should try to made an aggresive generals... commanding from behind is great mindworks, but bloody experience in the frontlines are a lot better... it risks your FM's lives though

[gamegeek2]

Look in my old "Of Mail and Men" AAR. Satraces was green before his ridiculous run through the AS, and had 5 stars after (~5 years later). Along the way, he probably fought 10 or so battles where the odds [supposedly] weren't in his favour.

[We shall fwee...Wodewick]

I find the best method to get good generals is autocalc. Yes, you risk losing a lot, but eventually you get unbeatable 10 star generals. Which can actually be bad, because at one point in an old Romani campaign, I had 3 generals with 7-10 stars and they conquered me Asia minor, Egypt, Germania, Gaul, and Britannia in about 20 years at which point I had ruined my game with my crazyness and forced to start again. BTW, the date I ended at was 120 BC.

[maltheus]

As much as I love this mod, the command star issue is why I'll be going back to vanilla the next time around (with all the squalor that entails). I'm guessing you have to fight the battles yourself to gain stars, but I only play the strategy map and have no desire to fight each battle. By the time I'm done cycling through all my cities each turn, the last thing I want to do is fight several 15-minute battles.

And if stars aren't that important in EB, then why do all the opposing generals have so many stars? I'll even assassinate an enemy general, just to see the next captain in line automatically promoted to a 3-star general. Meanwhile the hard fought single star general I have will lose that star if he's not fighting every other turn. It's hard for me to think of it as a feature.

I've seen others here post that you can go back to the vanilla system of awarding stars by removing the BecomesBetterGeneral and BattlePoints series of traits, but I wasn't to clear on just what had to be ripped out to do that. Does anyone know if it's easier to get stars with the 1.2 version?

[mcantu]

As much as I love this mod, the command star issue is why I'll be going back to vanilla the next time around (with all the squalor that entails). I'm guessing you have to fight the battles yourself to gain stars, but I only play the strategy map and have no desire to fight each battle. By the time I'm done cycling through all my cities each turn, the last thing I want to do is fight several 15-minute battles.

And if stars aren't that important in EB, then why do all the opposing generals have so many stars? I'll even assassinate an enemy general, just to see the next captain in line automatically promoted to a 3-star general. Meanwhile the hard fought single star general I have will lose that star if he's not fighting every other turn. It's hard for me to think of it as a feature.

I've seen others here post that you can go back to the vanilla system of awarding stars by removing the BecomesBetterGeneral and BattlePoints series of traits, but I wasn't to clear on just what had to be ripped out to do that. Does anyone know if it's easier to get stars with the 1.2 version?

AI generals get more stars to make battles more of a challenge for the player...

not getting command stars is a really lame reason for going back to vanilla, imo

[Cute Wolf]

You can (and must) choose some (who is the right ones) to fight, and some to peacefully govern your cities, so look at their traits and personality, that's the purpose of deepening the trait system in EB...

sorry for my bad english

[tapanojum]

You can (and must) choose some (who is the right ones) to fight, and some to peacefully govern your cities, so look at their traits and personality, that's the purpose of deepening the trait system in EB...

sorry for my bad english

This is exactly why I love EB, you can role play and become more involved in the campaign.

[Cullhwch]

The AIGeneral trait is what adds those extra command stars to the AI generals. Crippling it makes the battles feel a bit more believable.