The making of good generals

[Cute Wolf]

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generally, give your general the bare minimum amount of units required to win a battle - 3 or 4 units of cavalry (light/medium/heavy/HA) plus your general can work wonders against much larger armies if you use them right.

Wonders this only applicable if you play a nomadic faction / faction who had better cavs such as AS, Makedon, or Baktria.. Romani cavalry are suck... I suggest you to play with your FM, with 2 hastati, 2 principe, 1 triarii, and some 2 / 3 light troops... they could outfought most gallic army twice of their size... quite good for blitzing in early game...

[Zradha Pahlavan]

I had a thirty-something 5-star seen-the-elephant general once, but he fought so many battles that now he's sick of fighting. Oddly, he has both the war weary trait and the restless warmonger trait at once, which makes an obnoxious and near-useless combination.
Basically, I say this to show that you might want to be careful with all this.

[Watchman]

Dude's gotten PTSD, obviously.