Intelligent? I think no.

[Colovion]

So I was playing my Julii campaign last night and noticed a family member squatting alone in a settlement far from their faction's central location. This was strange, but made stranger by the fact that they were their faction heir. Well I let it slide for a while... until they actually became the faction leader and were getting walked all over elsewhere in their realm. What's more? One of their traits was "Intelligent" hahahaha. For a reunion for three brothers who are now in their late 50's I'm sending them North to take the head of the enemy leader.

I find it sad that still the enemy has great generals like this holed up in a settlement. I have never fought a battle against a family member that had more than 2 stars, and I can't really remember when that was, just that it happened a long time ago.

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[Baiae]

I see 4-5 star generals quite often. It might be because I play more slowly than most people and the time allows them to build up their family members by fighting against each other.

[Colovion]

AH - no I see the Generals of higher stars, but they're never in battle - they're always back at home watching their homes. The only way to actually fight one of them is to assualt a town.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The Senate sometimes has a ten star general outside of settlements when you take Rome.

[Colovion]

The Senate sometimes has a ten star general outside of settlements when you take Rome.

Yeah they do, but they have that from the beginning of the game. Just one full stack is chilling just outside of Rome and the General is amassing Stars without even fighting anyone...

[IrishMike]

I battled a 8 star gaul general that was invincible and had a huge man supply. He crushed me about 8 times and I crushed him about 4 times. Spent hours chasing him around. It got pretty stressful until I finally managed to kill him. Guess this was just a rarity though.

[katank]

I've also only met high star Gaullic family members in field combat. However, they also start with such talented commanders.

The senate army actually wandered pretty far in my Briton game. They were way across the Rubicon and next to Arretium in Julii territory.

They left only 2 family members and a principes units in Rome, allowing me to sneak attack it in 1 turn, eliminating the faction and leaving the Julii to deal with the nasty rebel stack.