Spawning Men of the Hour

[PseRamesses]

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.

[Viriato]

The Men of the hour also apears when you loose a general in a battle, but you still win the battle (I suposse that the idea is that there is a man who takes the control of the situation in a bad moment, and becomes the hero).

When I played, the three times a general was killed in a victorious battle, a man of the hour appears (and generally with two o three stars...).

This could be a way to replace old generals or bad ones. Just attack with a good moral army a group of rebels, send the general to a suicid attack, and the win the batle. Actually, I didn't try it, but I think it could work.