Creating a General

**Vlad1** · 12-28-2009, 15:45

Normally to increase your amount of generals you must increase the number of male family members.One way of doing this is by approving marriages or marrige proposals to the female members of the family.If a proposal is made to one of your male family members then you loose that member of the family to the faction that proposed.As far as I am aware captains cannot become generals no matter how well they perform on the battlefield.When developing a generals traits it is important to consider how that genereal acts after battle.If a general takes a settlement and then exterminates the populace then he acquires a dread trait.Generals with high dread traits tend not to fair so well in governing settlements where generals with high chivalry tend to fair out better.I have generals with high dread traits who do all the fighting and I have generals who do the governing(high chivalry traits).The AI generates the marrige proposals so its not actually possible to create a general you can only develop one.The amount of generals you have is really luck of the draw and how many proposls you accept or reject.Hope this helps.

**Sevis** · 12-28-2009, 15:50

Vlad1, you are wrong about the captain issue - it is possible for one to become a general in a "Man of the Hour" event, which happens when that captain wins a particularly impressive fight. Killing enemy generals is a great way to trigger it.

**Vlad1** · 12-28-2009, 16:18

Thank you me lord.I stand corrected!

**_Tristan_** · 12-28-2009, 18:10

The best way of creating generals on the battlefield is by doing it Sevis' way, ie using a captain-led stack with odds of at least 1:1 against it... Works rather well with any kind of heavy cavalry against a small rebel stack or enemy faction stragglers...

But remember this rule of thumb : you cannot have MoH events if your number of generals/family members equals/exceeds your number of territories.

Most MoH generals will be above average regarding stats... So it is one of the best way to add some to your factions, though it requires a certain "ballsiness" to take on an enemy stack with unfavorable odds...

Another good way of adding valauble generals to your faction is by spotting enemy valuable ones and using your princess (or princesses', Spain is the best for this kind of things) to bring them into your family.

Istvan (Hungarian family member) is one of the most valuable that comes to mind in the first game turns...