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That's true. Why kill them off in a way that wastes ships, when you can just send them off into battle. Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Survival of the fittest sort of thing.

[Skullheadhq]

Click assasin, hold ALT and assasinate your FM and that way train your assasin!

[chenkai11]

Click assasin, hold ALT and assasinate your FM and that way train your assasin!

I tried it before, it won't work. Is there any trick for that?

[Chris1959]

Just tried it and it works on my own diplomats and spies but not FM's, a good exploit to train assasins if you want.
Shame many's the time I've wanted to kill of a corrupt and venal govenor!

Back on topic, don't accept adoptions vet suitors carefully, but as Roman be careful I got to AD14 and I actually struggled with my FM's and seriously lacked suitable candidates for Reformator and Augustus traits. As for lousy, useless offspring well that's life.

[Atraphoenix]

death ships mate, always works
you can execute 20 of them at the same time.

[Chris1959]

Trouble with death ships is as I get further in to the campaign I've usually swept the seas of opponents and Pirates.
I once had to send some useless sods all the way to the Black Sea, and then the silly buggers won the battles! Had to bring them home to run the admiralty

[Mikhail Mengsk]

That's true. Why kill them off in a way that wastes ships, when you can just send them off into battle. Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Survival of the fittest sort of thing.

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And why don't you send someone to my Baktrian campaign? I seriously lack of fresh generals

[athanaric]

Normally I'd suggest sending them into battles at various fronts, but since Romani have the worst bodyguards of all factions (though nice-looking), this is perhaps not the best idea.
What I usually do is train all those buggers in some city with a decent university (and possibly some mines and a large market) and occasionally send them en masse on autoresolved anti-rebel missions against the Eleutheroi mini-armies that pop up in your provinces every few years. Have them accompanied by one or two regular units. Usually your generals won't die in autoresolve against rebels, and as for saving money by playing the battles yourself - well, Romani players become millionaires in next to no time anyway.
After all, if you want to have useful FM bodyguards and big financial problems, go play Swêboz or Sauromatae.

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And why don't you send someone to my Baktrian campaign? I seriously lack of fresh generals

Find me some physical evidence that there was a famous Bactrian general named Gaius Julius Caesar and I will .

[Mikhail Mengsk]

Fine me some physical evidence that there was a famous Bactrian general named Gaius Julius Caesar and I will .

Well, who cares about the name?