Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
You will certainly find officers leading for the front all the way into WWII. Some Generals did lead from the front, especially in a charge but these were not always the field commander but suburbanite Generals.

Benedict Arnold lead from the front and he turned the tide and won the battle of Saratoga but was seriously wounded. Gates got the credit for the win, even though he was in the trenches and actually didn’t do much in the battle.

General Anthony Wayne also did. He even had his men carry him inside the fort at Stony Point, after he suffered wounds, so he could die in glory…he was rather lightly wounded actually…This may have been when he picked up the sobriquet Mad Anthony Wayne…

There are other generals of other nations also.

Marquis de Montcalm and General Wolfe died in the same battle.

Faction leaders might have been Generals and have great military knowledge and a few took the field.

Maria Theresia was no slouch when it came to military matters but I never heard that she took to the field in command.

That may be a random ability. We will have to wait and see.
Hopefully it's how the "night fighter" trait worked in previous titles after Rome.

It would be cool if certain leaders either came "out of the box" with the ability to command battles from the front and others learned the ability over time.

An example would be a situation where your army was ambushed...and your leader got stuck in the battle but wound up winning. They would then learn the ability to command battles from that point forward.

Something along those lines would add an extra layer of depth and realism.