how old do generals get

[adg]

i have been playing the carthage campaign on vh campaign / medium battles and have been using my faction leader as my major attacking general for much of the game. i think he's my second or third faction leader. anyway i just noticed that he's 106 years old. is this normal. this is only my second campaign after playing the scipii in my first, so i am unsure what is the normal lifespan. (i am much more familiar with M:TW, where after 50 years, your kings days were numbered)

[PseRamesses]

Haven´t gone over 100 yet but some have reached 97 and 96 years of age.
IMO this is better since one shouldn´t know when a person is about to die right?! Hell, I even got one that died on me when he was 56, which surprised me a lot. There seems to be a statistical cluster around 66 years though.

[Aetius the Last Roman]

Well i've never reach over a century with any of my leaders.
I do however think that most generals (drawing solely on my limited experience here) kick the bucket at around 60-70.

[Kyniskos]

In my last game I had one who got to a 100. Now I had one who died peacefully at 17! He was the one who was supposed to take over as Faction Heir. Wasn't to disappointed though, he was a no-good. My previeous Faction Leader survived all but the youngest of his three sons. It varies greatly me thinks.

[hrvojej]

It may be just coincidence, but with barbarians I was never able to get family members who were over 70. OTOH, I had a couple of 90+ year olds as the Romans and the Greeks. Especially the Romans seemed to be very long-lived. Otherwise I usually switch the retinue when a general gets past 60.

[Productivity]

I would imagine but there is probably some form of equation that it runs every turn, and as a general gets older the probabilities get higher. Given the amount of repetition going on over the entire community, it wouldn't surprise me if you had a couple that would seem to be really old.

[Es Arkajae]

Once your general reaches 60 years old you should take out all the good retinue ancillaries you can and give them to other family members and dump all the bad retinue members (if you have any) on him

[Kraxis]

In my last game I had one who got to a 100. Now I had one who died peacefully at 17! He was the one who was supposed to take over as Faction Heir. Wasn't to disappointed though, he was a no-good. My previeous Faction Leader survived all but the youngest of his three sons. It varies greatly me thinks.

Heh... Can you say assassin?
When an assassin has killed one of your family memebers he get the 'died peacefully' end.

[Quillan]

106 is the highest I've ever heard of. I had one make it to 100, and he died at 101. Most of mine die in the late 50s or early 60s. It's so normal, in fact, that once a general or important governor reaches 50 I start having a backup standing by in the city/army to take over once the elder dies. The guy who reached 101 had a backup in his 70s, who had a backup in his 50s, who had a backup standing by for him. I had 4 governors in Capua that game.

[adg]

he made it to 109. he only died because Alexandria caught the Plague :(. I'm gonna miss him

heres a screenshot
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ng_god/rtw.jpg

[Oaty]

Heh... Can you say assassin?
When an assassin has killed one of your family memebers he get the 'died peacefully' end.

Quite wrong Kraxis.

I've been asassinated and when I mouse over the portrait it says asassinated.

Dying peacefully can be bugged. This happens when 2 or more generals go into combat in the same stack. If a general whos is not in charge dies, even though they died in battle it will display that they died peacefully

[Kraxis]

But I have lost a few family members in cities at a fairly young age. No Assassinated end there.

By the he looked pretty neat for a 109 year old man. I must say I wish I'm as good looking then.