Brigadiers. Unfinished agents?

[Murmandamus]

I constantly get messages that Brigadiers are dying, yet they aren't visible in the towns that trigger the event. Anyone know what the deal is with them?

During my RTI campaign I had a card for a brigadier stuck in the agent tab on a ship and couldn't do anything with it. It said he had the 1st Line Regiment as followers. I haven't seen any since, yet I get death notices for them all the time.

In the manual it says that the promote button is to promote a selected Brigadier to general. How are we supposed to do that if we can't select them? Does the game just pick the best brigadier and make them the new general? I can't see the point in getting spammed with death notices for people I can't see or do anything about.

Are they just an unfinished aspect of the game?

[Megas Methuselah]

I think they're captains.

[MikeV]

I constantly get messages that Brigadiers are dying, yet they aren't visible in the towns that trigger the event. Anyone know what the deal is with them?

One step forward, one step back: we now have brigadiers/Generals for land units, and captains/Admirals for naval. They finally fixed the character age bugs, so they all have "realistic" life expectancies. But, we have to hear a widow sobbing for every 2-bit anonymous brigadier and ship captain that croaks.

[Megas Methuselah]

But, we have to hear a widow sobbing for every 2-bit anonymous brigadier and ship captain that croaks.

Let them sob. As long as my absolute monarch stays in power, those poor widows can cry all they want over a captain/brigader who died on the whim of his sovoreign.

[Ishmael]

Let them sob. As long as my absolute monarch stays in power, those poor widows can cry all they want over a captain/brigader who died on the whim of his sovoreign.

I think you're taking to this absolute monarchy/dictatorship a little bit too well...

[Fwapper]

They finally fixed the character age bugs, so they all have "realistic" life expectancies.

This:

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[MadKow]

This:

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there was no social security back then, you had to work till you die...

[Incongruous]

This:

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Nice bit of humour there from CA.