Quote Originally Posted by SMZ
I like the ability to train generals. That's a relatively common practice. Any leader who's raising troops of soldiers is going to be raising commanders for them also. It was pretty common to have schools to train men to become leaders.

They make sure this isn't abused however since they say the trained generals won't be added to your family. So protecting your family members is still key.
And don't forget, those hired generals have a new loyalty rating which means they can turn against you . I wonder if family members have this too? If so I assume they are normally more loyal to begin with.

What I think would be a really cool feature, in BI or the next game, would be if you could make a hired general become part of the family by getting his loyalty high enough, (by the occasional gift, giving him some of those titles C.A. mentioned, giving him land, ect.). This of course would be difficult and require substantial time and recourses.

Another sugestion for future games would be for hired generals having a "retiring age" instead of dying, and after retirement having a chance to become a unique retinue.

O.K. enough of my ramblings! really looking forward to BI!