how do you train a quality combat general?

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-13-2009, 12:32

1) It's good for him to 'Take AFter His Father', him being a good tactician
2) Sharp/Charismatic/Vigorous
2) Spartan Agoge training
3) Fighting battles

That's what seems to work for my Strategoi. Of course, my Makedones are the best Strategoi in the world, so the rest of you pesky people will have to pray to the gods to get as good as ours.

Maion

**HunGeneral** · 02-13-2009, 14:27

Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios

1) Of course, my Makedones are the best Strategoi in the world, so the rest of you pesky people will have to pray to the gods to get as good as ours.

I see, and what about Phyrros? Against him it's the Makedones who should start praying...

**seienchin** · 02-13-2009, 16:49

Yeah the Mini mod, which gives gives stars for experience is pretty cool, but anyways I get good generals by,
-Taking dull ones
-Fight and lose(win and lose around 50% each) a lot against Eleutheroi
-Pray for luck
-Pray for luck
-Pray for luck
-Give them the combat bonus acillaries of other Generals
I manage to get 7 Stars Generals sometimes and with atacker threads they have 10 when they atack.
Never(!!!) take the smart ones. As soon as they pause in cities with schools they get absolut pussies.
Sometimes Allied Generals are good too, but thats a big question of luck.

Of course starting Generals are strong sometimes but building your own ones is hard

**satalexton** · 02-13-2009, 17:21

if he really was that good than he would not be killed by a falling brick by an old hag xD

**HunGeneral** · 02-13-2009, 19:36

Originally Posted by satalexton

If he really was that good than he would not be killed by a falling brick by an old hag xD

Hmmm. True but wasn't Megas Alexnadros killed by too much alcohol (plus his wounds and him taking too much medicine)?

**BurningEGO** · 02-13-2009, 19:54

Curious screenshots Fluvius. Did you use any mini mod or something in your campaigns? Whats the dificulty you played the game at? How many full stacks did you support most of the game?

Regardless, pretty impressive to have finished conquering the world so fast. Can you give some timetables of the date you obliterated each faction?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-13-2009, 20:27

Originally Posted by BurningEGO

Curious screenshots Fluvius. Did you use any mini mod or something in your campaigns? Whats the dificulty you played the game at? How many full stacks did you support most of the game?

Regardless, pretty impressive to have finished conquering the world so fast. Can you give some timetables of the date you obliterated each faction?

Ah, a curious one!

Epeiros was 1.0 and Romani 1.1, Epeiros was 100% clean and Romani only the official fixes (especially the sprite one, ctd'd so much because of that).

Difficulty is VH/VH or M for both. Forgot the difficulty, at least one of them is M. I forgot how many armies I had as Epirus, only that they owned everything!

The Romani were 6 armies + 2 more who couldnt catch up with my frontier armies

(This was of course built up during the campaign, just starting with a half stack army.

To keep this thread on topic, I got various pics from my campaigns on an other thread, so take a look at:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=112224

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-19-2009, 10:23

Did Alexandros die by a brick? No. Did Pyrrhos conquer half the known world in less than 10 years? No. So please save this for another time. No one surpasses the greatness of the one and only Megas in the world.

Plus, Julius Caesar did cry under the statue of Alexandros when he was 19 for a reason, you know

And of course, Hannibal named his the best Strategos of all time.

Maion