1.2 Generals not gaining experience

**Jonny Dangerously** · 02-20-2005, 22:00

I've noticed that with Patch 1.2 you really have to earn your stars BIGTIME. Previously just "doing your time" in the field cranked you up gradually. Post patch it's much harder. I agree with Quietus, the more the odds are stacked against you the more likely you are to earn traits/stars..... and as a rule I chase all routers down to the bitter end.

FYI I was playing last night and noticed a fairly large bunch of reasonable rebels, maybe 8 units, just far away from my nearest city that only my cav could reach them and get back in time to garrison my 70% happy city. In a moment of sheer laziness I sent three units of legionary cavalry out to get them and stupidly (and recklessly) autocalculated (lazy, and I never normally do it unless it's bandit-tidy-up moments). The cav won, and the captain was announced man of the hour and I now have a 20 year old 3 star general.

I will be experimenting more with this later to see if it can be repeated.

**Kaldhore** · 02-20-2005, 22:24

"Man of the hour" isnt just based on good victories

I just had 3 in 3 turns, and all 3 were new units and hadnt fought 1 battle before.

Im playing as scythia and have lost 4 generals in battle recently, with 15 provinces and 3 family members left - I put it down to the AI realising my provinces greatly outweighed my family members and so compensated for me.

I even fought a battle recently and lost my new "Man of the hour" in a sill silly in the rear from a rebel general" (ouch embarrassing).

I curse at the screen at 3am in the morning - very loudly. And then laughed my head off when immediately after I returned to the campaign screen - I got "Man of the Hour" for the scythian horse archers I had in the same battle.

Amazingly good timing - or the fact that I was back to 3 family members with 18 provinces?

**hrvojej** · 02-20-2005, 23:58

The odds need to be less than 2.25:1 in your favor to gain stars in 1.2.

**hung41584** · 02-21-2005, 01:11

man of the hour occurs whenever there are situations where you fight against the enemy using an army with no general and that unit provides the little extra push needed to win. Probably occurs mostly when you are outnumbered. Also, there has to be no nearby friendly large sized army(bigger than the enemy army). its like they become man of the hour because they saved the faction from a large problem(hence the no nearby large army because if the enemy won, then your faction would have a problem).

I got mine when the spanairds attacked one of my cities. The odds were about 1:1 if i included the two or three town watches inside the city. My attacking army had a general, and i was trying to free the city from the siege. In the battle, I made sure the garrison made it into the battle just in time and fight a little bit. Then i got my man of the hour.

**Zakor** · 02-21-2005, 02:26

man of the hour occurs whenever there are situations where you fight against the enemy using an army with no general and that unit provides the little extra push needed to win. Probably occurs mostly when you are outnumbered. Also, there has to be no nearby friendly large sized army(bigger than the enemy army). its like they become man of the hour because they saved the faction from a large problem(hence the no nearby large army because if the enemy won, then your faction would have a problem).

Is the code for this changeable? I can't find it.