Generals/stars

[NicSO]

I know all that Maltz....Stars should give only morale upgrade and maybe, maybe attack and defence but not +10 for 10 stars general and I have 5 10 stars generals....had....because I dont play original game..

10 stars should give maybe +3 attack and thats that but improved morale, marching speed....

Its really stupid when Im able to rush at the enemy (twice bigger army) made of GOOD units and crush them with 1 injured soldier which had broken toe..ah....IT SUCKS SUCKS and SUCKS.....

Is there eny joy in that kind of victory? No!

And Maltz how many historical battles had routings after 10% cas.?

99% of the battles were long with heavy losses on both sides, not 1/10 ,like in R:TW!

[Maltz]

Hello:

Yes, I also think the commanding star & difficulty system should mean something more complicated. Morale is certainly an important factor. However, I haven't found the current system too bad.

Just now, I had a 2-star general to siege a 7-star Dacia leader's last settlement. I killed a lot of his other unit except for his bodyguard, so I thought OK it is time to rush in. I had about 7-8 units of infantry.

Then, his bodyguard had the same heroic deeds as you mentioned - they chraged towards my 500+ men inside. First they ran through my hoplite phlanx spears and soon routed them, then stepped through a unit of barbarian warband merc. (who also uses spears) then rout them. Finally my support troops - those turbo "Thracian-look-alike merc." (the best infantry of Thrace B-something) was cut an big opening by his few horses. But he also got himself surrounded by those tough nude campers and fell.

My leader was blowing horns crazily outside. He has no guts to charge in. I was certain he would get killed.

You are very good that you developed a large numbers of capable generals and use them. Not many empires in history have ever done that. I am sure in any VH setting you will never be able to rush and crush like you described, if you just want to try for once. Instead, you will see quite a lot of the opposite happening especially when you face "the star".