Generals bodyguards

[Kraxis]

i was playing as armenia and it was well into the marius reforms and my generals cavlary was still not upgraded ( i have vanilla rtw)

By vanilla do you mean "no mod 1.2" or "1.0"? In 1.0 ans 1.1 there was a bug where the generals wouldn't get upgraded. That was fixed with 1.2.

[artavazd]

yeah i have no mods i just mod some things here and there

[tibilicus]

Early easter generels....... err. horible to comand........

[Barbarossa82]

I think Armenia suffers from the same bug as Pontus in that its armoured generals aren't recognised as an upgrade to the general's unit and so don't appear after the reforms.

[Bhruic]

No, Armenian generals get upgraded by the Marius reforms. It's pretty easy to tell, as before they have javelins, afterwards they do not.

Bh

[katank]

early eastern generals are actually great. Just don't forget to turn off the skirmish function.

Their ample charge is augmented by the fact that they can fire javs on the charge. The javs make a few kills, often disrupting the formation and gives morale penalties, makes the enemy unit cave quicker.

Late Armenian or Parthian generals are just scary. Attack bonused cataphracts.

[Kraxis]

With 2 HP... Don't forget that.

They are by far the best bodyguards.

[Craterus]

When fighting the Parthians/Armenians I always think "Why don't they strip the horse of it's armour if the armour is undamaged?" Then some of your cavalry would have better defence.