How do I change a General's unit? (MTW)

[smif]

Hello all,

I am not sure if this is the proper place to post this question, but I am curious about how to change a General's unit? I have a really good general, but he's in a peasant unit, which I want to disband. I'd like to upgrade him to a calvary unit, or something.

I was not able to find anything in the manual about it, so I'm wondering if someone here can enlighten me, if this is at all possible.

Thanks!

[Doug-Thompson]

Can't be done.

[octavian]

its something ive wished for many times
hopefully something that will be changed in rome

[Silver Rusher]

be good if it could in Rome, though. I hate having super-um-generals. But you could say it's a good thing, with all your good units your don't have to worry about 'oh no, my general's gonna die!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!'

[katank]

I would typically intentionally fill up the general's unit with high valor UMs and then retrain with morale and armor and weapons so as to make the general last a little more battleworthy.

withdrawing from the battle before combat starts will also keep him safe but maintain the bonuses except for within 75m of general.

[Colovion]

my very first campaign taught me this lesson

I had my best General (7 Stars) as a single Urban Militia unit - one man - I hadn't figured out how to retrain units at that time.... anyway the whole unit (except him) got slaughtered just because I forgot that Urban Militia suck when taking on a charge from some heavy Cav....

[katank]

what also sucks is that if they are such small size unit, they might be killed while besieging a castle in VI. This I found out the hard way when I lost a killer Byz heir.

he was very high valor and could take any enemy unit by his lonesome but died sieging! I hate besieger attrit in this manner!