I´ve found a way to spawn men-of-the-hour and haven´t seen it posted before so here we go.
Since I micro-manage my settlements a lot, producing peasants in overcrowded cities and sending them to smaller settlements, I`ve many of them encountering rebels. Usually I put 4-8 of them together to travel safely but when I encounter a rebel-force I move my stack up next to them. Then I use another single-unit peasant to attack and autocalculate the battle. The single unit peasant will be the attacker, supported by the stack of peasants and voilá the single unit peasant will become a general! Doesn´t work every time but often enough to exploit it, he he! Try it and good luck!
I actually have a lot more generals than cities so I take the bad ones to my capital for training at the academy under my rulers watchful supervision and after some 5 years they will pick up traits and v&v´s.
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