Anyway, I only use my Generals to chase routers. Even there they are not efficient, because they just knock them down most of the time.
I don't... I prefer a unit of Merc cav to do that (or light chariots, they can shoot down routers very well, send them up right close behind a unit and then halt and target them).

I found out the hard way that Chariot generals are not useful to ever use in combat, those things are just way too flimsy and losing a good general is not good.

They need to be beefed up a lot more.