What happened with my leader, from 8stars to 5!?

[Tocca]

My Julii leader is "Marco the Killer", he was an eight star general when i attacked the Thracian capital.
I attacked with 700men against 800Thracians, and managed to take the city with 2min left. I exterminated the populace and Marco yelled "Victory" and stepped into the city.
Next thing i see is on the army screen, Marco is now a five star general???
I got no messages about anything after the fight (aside from the standard one when you exterminate the population).

I will redo the fight, i saved the game just one turn before the fight, but i'm just wondering if anyone else has had such an experience. If so, is there a reason for it, or is it a bug?

[URPLUMCRAZY]

My Julii leader is "Marco the Killer", he was an eight star general when i attacked the Thracian capital.
I attacked with 700men against 800Thracians, and managed to take the city with 2min left. I exterminated the populace and Marco yelled "Victory" and stepped into the city.
Next thing i see is on the army screen, Marco is now a five star general???
I got no messages about anything after the fight (aside from the standard one when you exterminate the population).

I will redo the fight, i saved the game just one turn before the fight, but i'm just wondering if anyone else has had such an experience. If so, is there a reason for it, or is it a bug?

Some times you get extra stars when attacking or besieging or defending or look at your traits you might of picked up a bad trait or 2 that take command stars away.

[*Ringo*]

It's probably the Superior Attacker trait. Like the man (or woman) said check your character details.

*Ringo*

EDIT* for politically correctness.

[Tocca]

I shall look at the traits and such, but this guy has LOTS of traits! I must load an old save and write them all down and then load the latest save and compare.

The odd thing is that, as far i know, every time you get a new trait you are told about it in the end year reports. There was no such thing this time.
But you're probably correct, must've been something like that.

But i think it's a bit much really!
I capture a huge city against the odds and the commander looses three stars? Ah well, i'll build himm up again i guess...

[*Ringo*]

The odd thing is that, as far i know, every time you get a new trait you are told about it in the end year reports. There was no such thing this time.
But you're probably correct, must've been something like that.

You don't get notified every time you get a new trait, it's usually the nasty one that it *forgets* to tell you about.

*Ringo*

[Oaty]

You don't get notified every time you get a new trait, it's usually the nasty one that it *forgets* to tell you about.

*Ringo*

Yes just recently noticed this if it's a trait gained during battle you get a message. Any other trait seems to get dismissed as I could see the report for this as too annoying. As far as I know you always get a notice for retinues.