Man of the Hour

[Slon]

I used to spend a lot of time getting a single captain to become a member of the family through the "Man of the Hour" event which is triggered by battles won. However, after winning lots of battles with the captain, he didn't become a family member. Just now, I sent a captain with a fairly sizeable army to kill some rebels because there was nothing for him to do, and he became Man of the Hour after I resolved the battle! How is the adoption due to combat ability triggered? Does the captain have to win the battle in a certain way? Does it only work for auto-resolve?

[Oaty]

Theres triggers for it and it may be as low as 0 percent under circumstances.

Heres my guess for best results, if a general/captain dies theres a higher chance. You can either have a 60 year old general with a captain commanding the renforcements. or 2 captains and make sure the lead army captain dies. Although renforcemnts do'nt seem to be a major factor if any. Also a bloody battle seems to be another good trigger for it.

If your general to city level is close to 1 to 1 I'd not even try to bother as the game has ways of controlling royalty numbers and if you have close to a 1 to 1 ratio your family members will have reduced births.

[IrishMike]

The "Man of the Hour" seems pretty rare. I have only had it once in my 5 campains. Only time, the poor captain was trapped up at the top of Gaul, surrounded by a 6 star general of the Gauls. Amazingly he won on an auto-resolve and the issue of adoption was brought forth. It only appears to me that they must win an impossible battle to be promoted. Just my observations though.

[Bacchon]

Heh. In the months of playing, I've only ever gotten the Man of the Hour event once or twice. And only on autoresolve. No matter what I do, no matter the odds or the circumstances, I've never gotten it by playing the battle out, but usually by accident by resolving tiny battles with foregone conclusions. I'd love to know how exactly the event works to get a better idea of how to achieve it by playing the battles out.

[LestaT]

I've got it only once if I remembered correctly and he turn out to be over 50. If I need General I just go and bribe. Easy.

[Ldvs]

I saw my first "man of the hour" a few days ago in a Brutii campaign. I never auto resolve (way too dodgy) even if the odds are only a single unit of peasants. My captain won two consecutives heroic victories against the Dacians. They didn't even outnumbered my army, I just lost very few men. In some other campaigns even though I won numerous heroic battles (sometimes outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1) with the same captain, bur it just wouldn't do...

[mtfeiler]

In my previous Seleucid campaign (H/H), my first "man of the hour" appeared. After that I fought approximately 10 battles only with captain-armies (all wins) and got 5 new generals as man of the hour. Since then it never happened again.

[Oaty]

but he probably wont get adopted if you win some sort of Pyhrric victory and your army is almost annhilated.

Nope I got a MOTH with 1000 losses to 500 of thier deaths

[Ldvs]

Nope I got a MOTH with 1000 losses to 500 of thier deaths

Maybe they had high quality troops and you loads of untrained men, was that so?

[Oaty]

Maybe they had high quality troops and you loads of untrained men, was that so?

Well it was Iberian infantry and a dead general against Numidians. Niether had high quaity troops, If I'm right the odds were in my favour or it is 1 to 1 odds.

[Nerouin]

If your general dies during a battle and the battle is won, it is likely that the winning captain will be adopted. I haven't researched this- i.e. tested it- but I've heard that it nearly always happens.. it's a nice way to cycle out an aging family member for a younger, adopted captain, albeit a cheap one.