Spawning Men of the Hour

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PseRamesses 14:22 04-29-2005

Originally Posted by screwtype:
I've read that men of the hour are only spawned as a result of the ratio between the number of your generals and the number of your cities. If the ratio is below a certain level, men of the hour are spawned when you win a battle with a captain, otherwise they aren't.

A simple rule of thumb I've come up with is that if I'm offered an adoption, it's the game's way of telling me I don't have enough generals and I'll get a man of the hour if I win a battle with a captain.

I refuse adoptions because as someone pointed out on another thread, they make other family members resentful and cause them to pick up bad traits. This doesn't happen with MOTH as far as I know.

Hmm, didn´t know about the city-ratio rule but that doesn´t explain why my exploit work weather I´m in an early-, mid- or late game, weather I have few or many commanders or a couple of settlements or running a whole empire. Last game, as Macedon, I had 7 cities, 5 original commanders and had spawned an additional 5 commaders through using this peasant-trick all within the first 10 turns. You still might be right but I´ll do some more testing.

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