Quote Originally Posted by Nelson
I have a Scipii admiral with 4 stars. Admirals can have retinues like generals. Ships built in ports or spending time in ports having academies, scriptoriums or curias can add to an admiral's retinue resulting in extra stars.

I also have a 4 star admiral as the scipii and whole boatload of two stars. In fact, I have too many admirals since they cant merge fleets (ie I cant have a stack with two 2 star admirals).

I'm not sure if they only occur when you build quinqiremes but thats how it seems to be.