Sweboz: slow moving stacks and hobbled characters??

[Heracles]

but what do you mean by "hobbled"?

I am aware of exhaustion that occurs from repeated forced march, this is something different to that. Hobbled is an actual permanent trait. First level reduces move by 20% on campaign map. Don't think it has any battle map implications. I checked the EB data folder, this trait has a second level ( I think "Lame"). I think you are supposed to retire them to be a governor when this happens, but just annoying if they were your best general in the field at age of 30 something.

Thanks for advice ppl, but in the end I decided the limited tech tree was just not fun, and restarted on an Arverni campaign I had saved from several months ago.

Also, the hobbled trait then happened to one of my Arverni generals, so it might have just been random that it occurred several times early on in that Sweboz campaign.

[athanaric]

You may just have been unlucky with that trait in that particular campaign, maybe it's an inherited one in your royal family. The limited tech tree can indeed get very annoying in mid to late campaign (even though it's still better than in Vanilla RTW), but OTOH it forces you to be creative and keeps you from over-extending.