A little off topic... I have been cultivating my faction heir (Julii game) for a while now... Born with Natural Born General (or somthing like that) he was just one of the numerous grandsons of the faction leader... But this trait meant that when you piled the young generals into an army he would be the one taking command.. 20 years of fighting the Gaul later, kicking them out of northern Italy and securing the borders with forts, and he is a Conquorer, a Ledgendary Commander (the Mighty) then Ledgendary Rome Hero (the Great) and finally Infantry Commander of Genius (the Infantryman!??!?). As he could not really achieve anymore on the battlefield and had picked up the bloodthirsty trait it was time to get him off the battlefield. By this time the orginal faction leader was dead and the first son had taken his place. My cultivated general was the most promising of the next generation so I made him the Heir, at the expense of his own father who had turned into a Dunkard while a Governer...

He is now governing a small city in the hopes of pickig up some management skills and a bit of influence..

I prize adoptions and husbands with influence and management skills most as command skills are pretty easy to pick up... Just place the general in battles you know you will win at first and then much harder fights and make sure he always does some fighting even if it is charging down the last un-routed enemy units... Winning battles gets the Commander traits and personally killing enemy soldiers gets Hero traits (and the bloodthirsty ones too if you are not careful)...