ACIN's procreation problem...

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-28-2009, 03:13

In my game I find that 100 years into my save game I have 78 cities but some how all of my generals since the games beginning have found killing more fun then having special time with their ladies and now I have just one old faction leader and a 45 year old faction heir. Every guy I adopt is so horrible they die each and every time I try to send them into consecutive battles. At this point there are no weak rebels just stacks of Sweboz and yellow death coming at me. What should I do?

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-28-2009, 03:30

You have more than 75 provinces and just *two* family members?

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-28-2009, 03:37

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

You have more than 75 provinces and just *two* family members?

Yes. They keep producing girls and/or nothing. When I adopt they suck with crappy traits and usually die because I am playing on VH/H.

**Vasiliyi** · 07-28-2009, 03:39

Ive never had that problem. Bug?

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-28-2009, 03:40

Originally Posted by Vasiliyi

Ive never had that problem. Bug?

At some point I have edited every file at least once. Could I have messed something up with the probabilities of having children, boys/girls etc..?

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-28-2009, 03:52

I've never heard of anything remotely like that. Either you have introduced some bug, you are the worst general ever, or you are just really really really unlucky.

If I kill off a couple of generals in a battle and I have a ton of provinces, I almost always get new ones or fight a battle and get men of the hour like crazy.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 07-28-2009, 05:38

Originally Posted by Vasiliyi

Ive never had that problem. Bug?

Yes, a bug. But not a computer one. More of the likes of a one that infect Homo sapiens sapiens. And not a noticeable on either, but more of the stealthy, insidious nature. So far, the only known symptoms of it are the rare but yet documented dramatic and abrupt elongation of the protuberance of our body which houses the nostrils. Yes, that part.

This grotesque and peculiar effect is observed only in men of certain character, of certain physical disability which is characterised by the replacement of the somatic composition from flesh to cellulose in a process not yet rationalised by the befuddled men of knowledge of these days. How morbidly curious you say, but believe my word, and believe you shall, this affliction is, if we are to heed the statistics, is the most common of all the human maladies.

**Geticus** · 07-28-2009, 06:00

Go generalless.
With 75 provinces your empire should be awash in gold. So just let your 45 year old be a fat cat, preferably in a city with a fertility temple. Send out the legions with lots of +morale units like prima cohors imperatoria or mercenary generals, naked spearmen or whatever and superior high morale units so they won't route. Hire morale penalty mercs like wargozes and tindanotae. Victorious armies will sometimes spawn men of the hour who you immediately retire and put out to stud in some city doing no military service, just procreating and let the legions win without generals. Sooner or later you should get a decent kid, let him govern a city with a war temple until he becomes hale and hearty then let him go out and crush the world.