Thanks for your help, everyone

el_slapper - does burning the General not just get replaced by a "clone" (same stats) the next turn anyway? If that's the case, then why burn him in the first place? Unless it's for training the Inquisitor up so that he can then go after higher-powered targets. Or does his military unit get disbanded when he gets burned...? (which would be very cool, as then you can eliminate enemy units without having to go to war... )

FadeAwayNot - Do you play with the -green_generals switch, which (if I understood correctly) replaces a dusted general with a weaker version of himself. Could this be why they get replaced with weaker versions of themselves? Or is it the default behaviour?