Quote Originally Posted by Christopher
Who thought A P.C. game could be so indepth.
Sigh... i remember when that was the norm rather than the exception

/sobs into beer.


1) Is there anyway, besides winning battles to gain valour points.
As well as what has already been stated, i would just say that its not *winning* battles that gives your units valour (well apart from the fact that it gives your general more stars), its getting kills that does it.

Believe it or not, the game tracks valour individually for each soldier - the valour displayed for the unit is actually the *average* valour of all of the men in the unit. So every kill a soldier gets raises his valour, but if he dies that valour is lost, which is why it is possible for a unit's valour to drop - if some of its high valour soldiers are killed then the average will fall.

This is why you might notice your archers and catapaults tend to gradually increase in valour throughout a game, while your swordsmen (for example) dont quite so much - because youre archers tend not to die quite as often as your swordsmen when in combat.

So, its not winning the battles that gets your men valour, and its not just killing enemy soldiers either, its killing them while not getting your own men killed. Okay, so achieving that kind of implies that youre going to win the battle, but you know what i'm getting at here...