Thanks for replying Gil.

I would have said that give generals lifespans, but only tell the player when star generals die - this would cut down the 'spam'. (you could also have an option to turn this off).

On a new note, what would people think about attrition being added to the game?

I know that in sieges, defenders already suffer attrition. But to add a new layer of realism what about age being taken into account on your soldiers (if they're tracked already should this be a problem?), and they die like everyone else of old age. However, also, the major source of attrition would be invading armies in foreign lands far away from their homelands/supplylines, or garrisons in plague towns. It was a sad fact of many invading armies in this period (eg: the crusades) that sometimes the majority of combatants died before they ever got to see the enemy.

I think this would make the game much more realistic, and much harder for people just to walk across the board, as you would have to send units back to get retrained more regularly, and good generals far away would be far more likely to die of a horrible disease, so you would have to take this into account when sending that 9* general...

Thoughts?