Quote Originally posted by Rob:
General's honour? I presume then you were referring to the campaign game. I was thinking of online battles.

In online battles, the only difference is the ai of your opponent.
The game makes no distinction, a general is a general regardless his ai or hi.

Why do u think online players choose ashi musk as general ? For they can afford to rise to honour 5 without paying too much for that and STILL get the battlefield multiplayer bonus.
I have posted those modifiers in a previous message.

The lines i mean is :
+ Attacker's personal honour+unit's honur/2
-Defender's personal honour+unit's honour/2
(www.totalwar.com, posted by LANZA)

As u can see, in multiplayer battles we can assume that the personal honour is the same but in the modifiers the unit's honour plays a LEAD role in choosing the victor in a 1 vs 1 unit melee.

Anyhow, what if it rains? Fat lot of good honour 6 monks are then [/QUOTE]

Yeah, as things are now, only choice for the attacker are rain and bows/monks...but don't forget that rain reduces archers' range AND tires men quickly.
We both know the offense has the move while defender digs up on hills. So however u wanna put it there u go, choosing rain to avoid muskets is STILL a bad deal for the offense if it is chosen just to avoid enemy guns.