General's Bodyguards' Size

**KiOwA** · 12-04-2004, 19:47

Does anyone know what influences the size of a general's bodyguard? Most of them seem to top out at 20++, but I've had one general with 46 size bodyguards (this is on large unit size, btw).

**chemchok** · 12-04-2004, 19:57

Faction leaders and heirs get larger bodyguard sizes.

**KiOwA** · 12-04-2004, 20:03

Larger by how much? And surely this is not the only factor; the general with 46 bodyguards definitely wasn't faction leader/heir, he was some old general that I'd campaigned with for a couple of decades, then stuck him in a border town to govern because of his high influence. (Conquering hero trait is a whopping 6 influence - the decrease in security was more than compensated with his no. of stars and wreaths.) He did take some time to reach 46 bodyguards, though.

**chemchok** · 12-04-2004, 20:10

Off the top of my head, I'd say that faction leaders have 2x the bodyguard size of a regular general. I'm pretty sure bodyguard sizes increase over time, but I've never seen something that extreme in a non fl/fh general in my game.

**asilv** · 12-04-2004, 20:17

I think it depends on how many command stars general has.

**Colovion** · 12-04-2004, 21:16

I think it would be awesome if for every extra Command star, the General gains more men to his entourage. I am almost positive this is not the case, as I've had a 10 star General with 20 or so men. I think that a General of that status would have about 40 or so, you know - gaining two extra soldiers to the body gaurd for each star gained.

Just a brainstorm, but I'd love to see it implimented.

**jerby** · 12-05-2004, 15:54

he,
sounds fun. but I had a 10 star general with just 10 bodygaurds.
wich reminds me, what are the efeects of command stars? influence on fighting ability or on obedience? or what?