Multiple Generals in an army

[Zenicetus]

I think Krauser is right. I can't imagine that a general who is not actually leading an army will get experience from battle.

And welcome to the Org, Zenicetus!

Thanks everyone! I feel like I'm climbing onboard here a bit late, but at least I'll have a little time to catch up until BI is released.

I've started to redistribute my Generals to separate armies, now that the early campaign is over and I have Macedon and Greece locked down (playing as Brutii since it seems like the best introduction to the game).

[Papewaio]

They do get unit experience though and this can be a useful thing to toughen up a potential general or a use for an otherwise useless family member... who makes a pretty tough regenerating cavalry.

I sometimes have a second general in an attacking stack (besieged defender is another story). I give the second general the job of defending the gold general and breaking the enemy where it is too risky to lose the commander.

[sapi]

I sometimes have a second general in an attacking stack (besieged defender is another story). I give the second general the job of defending the gold general and breaking the enemy where it is too risky to lose the commander.

If you ever have a surplus of generals you can make an entire army of them...I did this once with the julii and steamrolled the brutii legionaries with 13 rejuvinating cavalry units :)

Got to be careful of autoresolve though...

[dgfred]

They do get unit experience though and this can be a useful thing to toughen up a potential general or a use for an otherwise useless family member... who makes a pretty tough regenerating cavalry.

I sometimes have a second general in an attacking stack (besieged defender is another story). I give the second general the job of defending the gold general and breaking the enemy where it is too risky to lose the commander.

That is what I use my second, and sometimes 3rd generals for

[Ciaran]

They do get unit experience though and this can be a useful thing to toughen up a potential general or a use for an otherwise useless family member... who makes a pretty tough regenerating cavalry.

I sometimes have a second general in an attacking stack (besieged defender is another story). I give the second general the job of defending the gold general and breaking the enemy where it is too risky to lose the commander.

And a second general doesn´t collect the "scarred" attributes as well, I believe. They´re the downside of having your family members fight, they might loose them a lot of influence.

[swirly_the_toilet_fish]

As I have played, I generally take the sons of Generals into battle as soon as they come of age and have them take charges into light units for the experience. Once they reach three chevrons, I keep them in a province that has numerous slaves to subdue the small rebellions (usually on their own) to gain the "scarred" trait, command stars, etc. Generally speaking, by the time they're 20 they have at least 3 more stars, and five chevrons. This makes for very powerful early cavalry, usually within 10 to 16 turns.