RomeTW How do i adopt new general??

**OctavianAugustus** · 10-20-2004, 05:36

hi this is my first post on this website and i have one simple question

How do i adopt a new general in SP?
i read somewhere that i can adopt new family members somehow?

How do i do this? What requirements does a regular unit need to be able to be available for being adopted into my family? Also, is their a max # of adopted family members or anything like that?

I would post this in the colluseum but for some strange reason this website has the bizzare policy of calling me a noobie and restricting my ability to post a new topic.
I personally find that quite insulting as the fact ive played MTW for years at least a good 3000 hours worth LOL

Im hardly a noob at TW....
anyhow; when can i get promoted to regular status?

I read this forum at least a few hours a day and i recognize most names posting from other posts they have made. Im a complete TW junkie and i see no good reason for being restricted from the other forums.
Actually i dont care about restrictions as long as im allowed to post in the colleseum ... lol

all i do is play SP all day anyhow...

ok well; does ANYONE know how do adopt new family memebers? thats all i really care to know because i havent seen anyone else ask this totally important and useful question.

Thanks for the time and
I LOVE THIS WEBSITE

**OctavianAugustus** · 10-20-2004, 06:10

testing my quote....will it appear? lets see

**Colovion** · 10-20-2004, 06:23

Don't put a General in command of an army - get the army to fight a battle. Win it handily and there is a good chance that your Captain of the army will get the option of being adopted by your Family. This isn't foolproof and sometimes Captains win battle after battle but never get adopted.

At the beginning of your campaign you might have a scarcity of Family members - by the end of most campaigns I'm taking most of my time trying to find places for all of the family members I have - getting adoptions and marriage announcements all over the place - and bribing enemy Family members....

**OctavianAugustus** · 10-20-2004, 06:30

hey bro

thanks for actually reading my post and replying so quickly you rock man

thanks for the tips

im going to go get some new family members now asap

thanks agian m8

**Sleepy** · 10-20-2004, 12:45

You can bribe other faction members to join you, plus its possible for a garisson commander to be offered for adoption. Plus there's adoption by marriage.

**Clips** · 10-20-2004, 22:41

go visit the egyptians if you want family members....there all join ya im sure lol

**The Tuffen** · 10-20-2004, 23:52

its quite useful getting captains adopted espec early on. Mine usually tend to have good v+v's as well.

also welcome to the boards

**Lonewarrior** · 10-21-2004, 00:56

Originally Posted by Colovion

Don't put a General in command of an army - get the army to fight a battle. Win it handily and there is a good chance that your Captain of the army will get the option of being adopted by your Family. This isn't foolproof and sometimes Captains win battle after battle but never get adopted.

Yeah i had one in my early brutii campaing. I only had 4 family members and yet I had one army captain that kept on fighting battle after battle and I got nothing. Unyil my leader died and then I started to get some new family members. I also though I was gonna lose thanks to only having 4 family members.

BTW by 4 I mean males only.

**addbo** · 10-21-2004, 05:43

I just started playing this game as well as posting to this forum. This is my first experience with a Total War game... it's pretty addictive!

Anyways I've only ever gotten one adoption by having a captain become a general... I think that was after a fairly simple battle with Rebels... but one which I pretty much slaughtered them without taking many losses...

Now this general is my faction leader... just because he was like 20 with like 5 command so I made him my faction heir... then my leader died...

So do most captains that become generals usually start this good?

Also I've found that almost all the egyptians I came in contact with were plague carriers... is that normal as well? (I kind of went on a bribing spree since I'm mid-game and have way too much cash... I'm brutii)

"The only normal people are those you don't know..." - Joe Ancis

**Silva** · 10-21-2004, 10:07

I have noticed Captains get promoted more frequently when you win a battle with a Heroic Victory.

Not sure if this is always the case, but thats how most of my promotions have occurred.

**Lucidor** · 10-21-2004, 10:21

Originally Posted by Silva

I have noticed Captains get promoted more frequently when you win a battle with a Heroic Victory.

Not sure if this is always the case, but thats how most of my promotions have occurred.

That's my experience as well - he'll have to do well against foes at least his own numbers or more.