Carthage spawns the Worst FMs in EB

[Vaginacles]

I have no qualms with the starting FMs like hanno, mago, hasdrubal etc except that at least one could potentially be a good general, But their offsprings are just plain useless. Its 230 BC in my Third carthie campaign and none of my FMs have the S/C/V trait, since the old guard are all dead. My best FM has the S/U/V trait but is pessimistic as hell, alternating from gloomy to melachony, with 4 command after innumeral slaughtering of Iberians and Eleuteroi. If it wasn't for the fact that in my previous campaigns my FMs also sucked the golden ass i would have guessed it was just me being unlucky, but now i think carthage is scripted to have a semi-retarded aristocracy. Somebody me rectify this.

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[Lazy O]

i think carthage is scripted to have a semi-retarded aristocracy.

Historical Realism at its best

[Olaf The Great]

..EXACTLY the same experience I had, Adherbal was D,U,L and S,P,D

[Eyes330]

I haven't had this problem across the board. My Adherbal was S/C/V, U/O/D and is now my faction leader with 10 Management and 10 Influence. And Bisaltes, Hasdrubal's son, is adding 3k a turn income to Gader with a bunch of good mining traits.

Most of the others of the starting kids have some redeemable traits. Himilco is a clone of Bomilkar and is doing okay governing. Hamalcar the Younger, had to work on him, but after having several victories over the Romans, he's got a lot of command and management, as well as being I think S/U/V.

The other generals that have come in later, while a few are retards, most of my sons that have come of age are good. A son of Hanno is set to become him again, with S/C/V and a lot of scrolls and wreaths.

So, I haven't had this problem at all. In fact, I'm having much better generals than in other campaigns. Maybe its just bad luck.

[antisocialmunky]

Its because they save the best for Baal.

[vartan]

Its because they save the best for Baal.

OT (forgive me), but is EB like vanilla RTW in that you need to build a temple to Baal before you can recruit sacred band units? (I don't have more than a few turns of experience in EB's Carthage faction.)