Well in all fairness I can sympathise a bit with the CA staff, how much bitching must they recieve from people I wonder?

Some of the bitching is quite relevant and it does indeed point out things that they should have by all means gotten right, but I doubt having people nagging at them constantly is going to help them much.

On topic.

I've found that the enemy general typically charges right for my centre even though my centre is usually as strong as the rest of my line, my flanks usually have my cavalry behind them but I place my generals bodyguard right behind the centre, so perhaps the enemy doesn't count the enemy gneral unit into its calculations when deciding who to charge.

Usually I have to send in my own general unit to counter the enemy general, which makes for a nice man to man showdown between the two leaders, one time I even zoomed in and saw my actual general (not one of his bodyguards) strike down the enemy general