16 y old "Seen the Elephant, Legendary commander, and Great Conqueror"

[Maion Maroneios]

Indeed, thank you for the just action.

Maion

[Irishmafia2020]

I've heard of this happening before... apparently it is a well known bug that anyone reaching the age of 120 becomes 16 again. The way to deal with it is simply to kill your 119 year old's off in combat I suppose, although i have never personally had anyone last past 101 or so...

[Cute Wolf]

The death seems so random after 60++ years old.. What's the qualification that a FM meets their death in RTW.exe?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Random, as I already said. There's an age after which they have a random chance to die.

[Duguntz]

Cutewolf, damn, you got the best gen ever possible at 16 years old! KEEP HIM! cheat? maybe, i confess, but so cool! unfortunatly, as all my FM fight in first line WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTION (apart for those with the coward trait... they're not worthy to die in battle for a sweboz) well... not a lot reach the age of 50, and if he does, he's a super ubber warmonger on the last level of that trait (yeah, the one that gives a miriad of bad trait, but makes you like a god on the battlefield!) and most die in battle... wich I don't mind because it's glorious! so cute Wolf... YOU HAVE THAT UBBER GEN worthy of a sweboz! he's of corse, worth a second life, generously offered by the gods!

[Cute Wolf]

@ Dugundiz
I dont know how to "cheat" and get more than 120 y old.... anyone with any clue how to control a FM's life and death would be great, ut that was completely random thing...
Your FM's gonna die in battle? poor thing... even when I play sweboz, the only reason that they die in a battle was my recklessness... (or their unusefulness), that's right a good general lead his men from the front, but lead his men against gaesatae is suicide, and lead his men to take frontal charge against phalanx is completely epic failure...

[Duguntz]

Lol! funny thing that most people on that forum thinks that I just throw my men against pike wall! It's silly! In fact i did it once and it was because I was boxed (in MP) and I had no other choice than trying my luck or dying without fighting!!! But I'm not a tactician as bad as to throw men away! neither I throw my FM on gaesate! Gaesate, I fight them bravely, with courage... from an archer range and a lot of amunition! Fighting with my gen on the first line dosen't mean i'll throw him on an elite unit with AP bonus!!!! but, of corse, on the first line, he's got more chances to be surrounded, and in those moments, dies in the glory of battle! but in all campains i did, although with dying rate surely higher than all those Roman and Greek administrators, I always had more than enough FMs!!!

[Ghaust the Moor]

That is a cool bug man. I would be so happy. Heheh

[Andy1984]

Lol! funny thing that most people on that forum thinks that I just throw my men against pike wall! It's silly! In fact i did it once and it was because I was boxed (in MP) and I had no other choice than trying my luck or dying without fighting!!! But I'm not a tactician as bad as to throw men away! neither I throw my FM on gaesate! Gaesate, I fight them bravely, with courage... from an archer range and a lot of amunition! Fighting with my gen on the first line dosen't mean i'll throw him on an elite unit with AP bonus!!!! but, of corse, on the first line, he's got more chances to be surrounded, and in those moments, dies in the glory of battle! but in all campains i did, although with dying rate surely higher than all those Roman and Greek administrators, I always had more than enough FMs!!!

Funny thing is, I hardly ever loose a FM in battle. I admit I love heavy cavalry generals, while I particularly despise Sweboz for that reason. But really loosing a FM in battle without having him sent on a suicide mission, that happens maybe once or twice in a campaign. I guess I use my generals the coward's way, which is ok to me and my FM's.

My love for my FM's is probably also the reason why I try not to ship them over the seas. Still, I never had one that lived up to a hundred years, for which I wish to blame these AI-assassins.

[Xurr]

The death seems so random after 60++ years old.. What's the qualification that a FM meets their death in RTW.exe?

That's just it at the beginning of each turn there is a random chance that a 60+ character will die. So if one does die you can quit and reload the turn and get a different result for the same character. Theoretically you can keep a character from dying indefinitely by simply reloading turns that he dies in.

[Hax]

50+ character, actually.

[johnhughthom]

Is there any way of changing that threshold, or is it hardcoded?