That's true, dut.

My Byz campaign had a minor glut of Pride and Secret Pride, lately. With the aid of a general whose "skilled attacker" took him up to 9-stars, I went into a battle with a pair of Treb Archers with 7 and 8 valour and one Byz Infantry at valour 7.

I was going to say that even seemingly negative things like 'captured' can have their uses (in a general) but I can never remember if the morale boost it gives applies only to the general's unit, or the entire army under his command.


@ Del Arroyo,

that rate of degeneration has to suck, doesn't it?

The whole randomness factor in V&V's is borne out by my experiences in past, incompleted, campaigns, where I had princes coming of age with things like 'captured', 'scarred' and so on, in their traits list. These are supposed to arise from game events which were within your control but to have them from the minute their game-piece first arrives on the board is just silly.

Actually, I know why this happens. Some of the entries in HEROES.TXT have values assigned to V&Vs, in order to make them like their historical counterparts, so princes have them when they come of age, even if actual game events preceding their appearance didn't pan out in the same way.