Contest: Your Best General

**Kekvit Irae** · 04-20-2005, 21:50

It wasnt MY general, but this Brutii certainly impressed me:
http://www.kekvitirae.com/buffroman.jpg

**AdamKelt** · 04-20-2005, 23:24

Wow, kekvitirae, I'm impressed with how well your Germanic game is going! I never got the motor chugging - all the financial problems right off. I had to give it up. The Britons was waxing me.

Good show!

(and no, I have no impressive generals...:()

**Kekvit Irae** · 04-20-2005, 23:48

Originally Posted by AdamKelt

Wow, kekvitirae, I'm impressed with how well your Germanic game is going! I never got the motor chugging - all the financial problems right off. I had to give it up. The Britons was waxing me.

Good show!

(and no, I have no impressive generals...:()

Take a good number of troops and blitzkrieg toward Rome and never stop.

And that game was over a long time ago. I cleaned out the Numidians, Cathagenians, Brutii, Macedonians, Thracians, and took out one Dacian province for the win. Once you capture Rome and get Chosen Archers, and build the Temple of Woden for Gothic Cavalry (complete with black eyeliner and vampire necklaces), the game becomes a cake-walk. Until you take Rome, or an equally-pleasing province, it's hell on earth.

**SpencerH** · 04-21-2005, 14:16

Originally Posted by kekvitirae

It wasnt MY general, but this Brutii certainly impressed me:
http://www.kekvitirae.com/buffroman.jpg

Why, he's only 3 star?

**Kekvit Irae** · 04-21-2005, 14:57

Originally Posted by SpencerH

Why, he's only 3 star?

The V&V list. I dont count command as one's only stat that makes him the best

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 04-21-2005, 18:11

One of my better generals was Quintus Scipio aka Scarface, Victor and something else I forget. Full command and influence and a few in management. Many great ancillaries, including one that put his hp up, so he ended up with 12 hp, cruelly scarred +8, general +1 above normal 1, ancillary +2. He also had a slew of great traits and other good ancillaries. Ironically he was of the Scipii while I was playing the SPQR and laying waste to their lands....

**Craterus** · 04-21-2005, 18:32

I had a 10 star Egyptian, 8 Influence, 4 management. But unfortunately I don't have a screenshot.
He had Archimedes, Ariston of Chios and Aristophanes in his retinue as well.

A legendary man and the crafter of my Egyptian empire, conqueror of all of Asia.

**Tricky Lady** · 04-21-2005, 19:53

Okay, here's the best general I had so far in my postpatch games:

Perhaps the stats are not so impressive, but it was fun getting all those extra stars (although he started with 3 or 4 already).

EDIT: A pity that he's one of the many Scarfaces wandering around.

**Craterus** · 04-21-2005, 19:58

I've noticed a lot of my generals are "scarfaces" now I've got 1.2. It's annoying because it takes away their cooler titles.

And also many generals would have had battle scars so why would people get a nickname about something that everyone who ever went to war had.