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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