Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
drone,

IIRC generals upgrades were not working at all in 1.1 if I remember the bug posts from others correctly. At least I never noticed them, but I think I only went through the drudgery of waiting for the reforms once or twice.
So this is probably a new attribute to fix that issue. And since Pontus and Scythia are "nonplayable" factions, I can see how the testers could have missed it.