Something I discovered about generals

[Komutan]

I remember a thread about very old generals and this may explain it.

I usually recruit generals by promoting them from a normal unit. However a computer magazine I read told that recruting generals as units gives you better generals, so I tried it. The general I got was a little better than the promoted ones; the promoted ones usually have 3 stars and no traits, but this one had 4 stars. The more unusual thing about him was that he was very old, 80. Then I checked his name, Hans Joachim von Zieten, on internet. There was indeed such a Prussian general. He was born in 1699 and I actually recruited him in 1779.

So it looks like recruiting generals is a good way to get better and historical generals and their age is determined by their actual birthdate.