Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
A lot of an FM's traits are formed by those first five years or so from Coming of Age - if you put them somewhere with an academy, they tend to becoming bookish. Somewhere with a temple, devout. Somewhere with a gymnasium, fit. And so on and so forth. Get the balance of buildings wrong for your objective, and you get surprises like that.
Oh wow i never knew that! that's a very nice bit of information so thanks very much!

And please have a for all stuff you've helped me with :)

Quote Originally Posted by vollorix View Post
IIRC, it depends on the government type and the heritage of the FM. You can see it in the description of their "gens": i.e. "...he would best suited to manage homeland reagions", means type 1. It doesn´t apply to all FM, especially not to the starting ones, i think, but its the same with the Carthaginians: if you put a Punno-Iberian to run Kart-Hadast he will immidiatly get the "stunnigly incompetent" trait, but if you let him gouvern your spanish holdings, and he can soon become a good administrator, though not immidietly.
Yup i actually just understood that one, hehe i was too lazy to read their ancestry.

and btw can you tell me how long does it take to train Spartiatai Hoplitai?