a general's stats will be similar to that of your ruler's at the time they are built. The higher your ruler's influence, the more likely your general's will _tend_ to be similar

- generally, when yer barely breaking even, your gov's tend to pick up +acu traits. As your empire gets richer and larger, u tend to see govs pick up -acu traits.

- the placement of the gov (in home castle/prov, far away in another prov, etc) has no impact on prov loyalty. The manual indicates keeping a gov at home should help loyalty. However, someone tested this by noting loyalty when gov unit at home, then moving gov across the map via ship, replaced gov unit with exact same # of men. end turn. next turn loyalty remained the same.

- if your generals are getting roasted by inquisitors, sprinkle bishops/cardinals liberally in high zeal provs. they put a big dent in inq. success.