Which cities produce the best leaders?

[MerlinusCDXX]

Hmmm, could it maybe be some sort of hidden bonus given by the Great Library of Alexandria?

[Tyrfingr]

Hmmm, could it maybe be some sort of hidden bonus given by the Great Library of Alexandria?

Could it just be imagination?

[Dayve]

Well, i suppose i could just be imagining it, but i know that i've never played a campaign in which i owned the city of Alexandreia before, and i know that my new generals and family members have never been as impressive as the ones that come from there.

[Onehandstan]

IIRC some cities do have special school buildings in them, like Alexandreia with the library, Sparte with the agoge (I think) and Ynys-mon with Ynys-duwall the island of darkness, that give bonuses as well as the school inthat area.

[Subotan]

I always find that Athenoi produces great govenors; I'm playing a game as Epeiros, and I've just launched Operation: Blue Storm which was an invasion of Anatolia using four full stacks (It was very successful ). I'd noticed that Atenoi had an Academy, and it was close to Asia Minor, so I left all the Governors-to-be of my new provinces in Athenoi. I come back after the Operation finished, and all of them have 7+ management and are natural philosophers and half of them are atheists (Which I like ). These weren't Hellenes, these were proper, country bumpkin Illyrians we were talking about, who are now tackling philosophical problems, whilst governing cities.

[LordCurlyton]

Well Sparta and Athens have the Agoge and Athens-specific traits like Eleusian, respectively. However, I've owned Alexandreia several times and I don't get anything special out of it. As the Romans I've had great governors pop up everywhere, though until you can build a big education infrastructure Rome is usually where you want to send them. The family line tends to be more important. I found that if you send a good FM out a-conquering and they get good traits the chances of their offspring being equally good goes up remarkably.

[mikil100]

I send all of my generals to Sparte and I make sure it has whatever Academy level I can get, alonge with a temple that is more war orientated ( Sparte is mostly for my generals but I think its good for governers). So far the results have been positive.. but as far as I know its only from the Agoge.