family

[mikagami]

hey guys
can your number of family members catch up with the number of cities you capture? I guess the answer is no right?
so how do you manage your cities? by automanage?

How do you let your family tree grow fast?
and how do you let captains become generals? i discover that if you retrain an army led by a certain captain or simply bring the captain's unit into a city then out, the captain will be a 1 different from the 1 before.

[Besieger]

hmmm....well i can said that depends on ur speed of expansion....when i played seleucid e last time round, at e early stage when my expansion is normal, i can occupy 20+ cities with all my family members....e highest if i'm not wrong is 38 members in e family tree at one time....no kidding


1 way of increasing ur family tree in to send a captain to battle as much as u can....he will be promote to a general if he can attain at least a heroic victory....e other way is to bribe other fraction generals....thats if u hav lotsa $$$$.....cheerz!!!

[lars573]

Doctors and certain other retinue members can increase the chance of having children. Also automanage is the devil I never use it. I just run cities with no governors if I have no family members available. If you are really hard up for governors go bribe enemy generals with under 3*, they can be bribe by almost any diplomat.

[Shahed]

I bribe everyone else's family members.

[Oaty]

highest if i'm not wrong is 38 members in e family tree at one time....no kidding

I've had over 60 family members so I think there is no limit on the family members you can have

[nokhor]

i have never been able to get above 51 family members no matter who i play. once i start hitting around 48+ members, new births slow down dramtically. and i'll have several couples married for decades with no kids. once my total drops to about 35 members or so, everybody starts knocking up their misses again. and little tyke's pictures start popping up all over the place.

maybe its a function of when i first start bribing rebel or enemy family members. because i usually only start that once i'm pretty high up in provinces.

[KiOwA]

I've been through some birth droughts in my family too, and I've heard somewhere that it's a bug, whereby if you bribe enemy family members your own cease to produce kids. It's not an absolute bug - mine started again after a few decades - but it bears mentioning.

[Maltz]

can your number of family members catch up with the number of cities you capture? so how do you manage your cities? by automanage?

There is a check box at the beginning of a campaign, or during a campaign in "game options" -- "Manage All Settlements". Withis box checked you can manually manage all settlements even if there is no family members as governer.

and how do you let captains become generals?

Let them fight battles (and win). A heroic victory almostly certainly gives you a promotion, while a clear victory sometimes. I've also seen it happens when the enemy just decides to retreat with 0 kill on either side.

[Spino]

Yes, I think the game scales your family members to match your empire or at least I think the formuals involved allow for that kind of thing to happen (not that I think it's a surefire thing). I think the game also gives you heirs when your family tree is dangerously low on members, regardless of the whether the couple(s) involved can actually have them! During one Julii campaign I had a very few family members and out of nowhere one of the older couples (the wife was in her late 50s) popped out a male heir.

[mikagami]

thanks guys
for the promotion of captains to generals,
i still cannot get it.
I have a Captain Marcus who is reaching 30 already, won alot of battles and 2 of them are heroic victories
but why still cannot promote?