Ways to kill off useless family members.

**Drewski** · 05-25-2011, 23:02

Have him lead a pathetic stack deep into enemy lands, and fight anything that moves......if he survives, he's probably a hero and all of a sudden somewhat useful - if he dies then well "whadda you lost" :)

**QuintusSertorius** · 05-25-2011, 23:59

An easy and guaranteed way to kill them off is solo assault on a rebel settlement. When they start pouring out the gates, have them charge to a point inside the walls. Once inside, they won't get back out again, and make sure you keep them uselessly moving instead of fighting so they can be overwhelmed.

For comedy value I sometimes see if I can reach the rebel FM before the bodyguard are all cut down.

**Populus Romanus** · 05-26-2011, 01:19

Charge him head first into a phalanx! *pincushioned*

**moonburn** · 05-26-2011, 04:16

i find it´s extremly honorable for the family to have many heroic deaths i always get my fm´s who married ma daughters in the 1st 5 years into their marriage heroic death

**Motep** · 05-26-2011, 04:37

Originally Posted by Drewski

Have him lead a pathetic stack deep into enemy lands, and fight anything that moves......if he survives, he's probably a hero and all of a sudden somewhat useful - if he dies then well "whadda you lost" :)

Yup, it is what I do. Leads to some very fun battles, on top of things, and I have actually managed (once...) to scrounge a good general from a waste of meat.

**Drewski** · 05-26-2011, 10:33

Originally Posted by Motep

Yup, it is what I do. Leads to some very fun battles, on top of things, and I have actually managed (once...) to scrounge a good general from a waste of meat.

Yep....I firmly believe there is no such thing as a "bad general"---just one who hasnt tried hard enough yet....seriously I NEVER kill a FM on purpose with any faction, sometimes they have to live and die on the edge :)....its totally wonderful to take a "freaks in the sight of blood...lazy, corrupt etc" to a "local hero, with 3 stars, 2 man, and 4 inf" ;)

**The_Blacksmith** · 05-26-2011, 11:03

Hahaha... i like this thread....

as parthia i have my "butt of the 13th regiment" consisting of only useless FM's... they are quite effetive... :P

**Tyrfingr** · 05-26-2011, 11:28

Move_character to 113,209 will send them to Gotland (off the coast of Sweden), then you have them attack the rebels there. The defeat will result in their death...

**Cute Wolf** · 05-26-2011, 13:38

Originally Posted by The_Blacksmith

Hahaha... i like this thread....

as parthia i have my "butt of the 13th regiment" consisting of only useless FM's... they are quite effetive... :P

seconded, I also have elite hoplite assault squad with KH, consisting of 8 useless FM's stacked together, somewhat surprisingly, they're being very effective for their job, despite anyone of them enter a city and it will turn into chaos. Thanks to auto-replenish and personal security traits, the're basically cheap-auto-replenishing elite squad of troops. Kretans and Wayward Spartans dominate the compositions :P

I try that with Sweboz as well, but not as great as KH ones (because Sweboz armor sucks and for somewhat reasons, their bodyguard sizes usually turns smaller than normal), so it's basically not elite assault squad, but elite suicide squad with Sweboz.

and I doubt you'll need that in Sabyn' everyone of your FM will at least having some good management skills... so they're best put as governors, despite they're mostly utter coward in the field of battles

**strategos roma** · 05-26-2011, 14:01

I gather them together, load them onto a ship and take them somewhere far from my homeland then have them commit suicide by assaulting strong rebel towns one by one though not before recruiting some mercs and loading the troops back onto my fleet. Through this, I got myself some HAs as casse, some ethiopians as bactria and some germans as AS :)