Nurturing Generals who are far from Battle

[ToranagaSama]

Playing MTW and trying to keep my General's engaged in the battle. I have successfully expanded my empire to where I now have eliminated most hostile nations from Europe and Asia. I am trying to keep some of those Generals in Europe - "in practice", but to cart them to Africa takes a while, as I still don't own the seas.

Does the game differentiate between types of battle - example if I fight an invading neighbor or attack a neighbor - is it the same value to my generals as if I supress a faction that has risen?

My thought is that I can raise taxes, incite a rebellion, supress it, and continue to gain stats for some key generals. Or should I just march them across the many provinces?

Thanks. Vajk

What type of ***Cheese*** is your favorite?

[Vladimir]

My favorite is the Papist rebellion. I get some real quality defenders that way.

[ah_dut]

My favorite is the Papist rebellion. I get some real quality defenders that way.

Or you get butchered by the absolutely out of this world good Papist army you have to bribe But yes, you can get some excellent training that way

Also, if you can get the Swiss or the Burgundians to revolt late in the game you end up with a whole new faction to fight....

Unfortunately never actually managed that one. They just won't revolt no matter what I do, it sucks

[DensterNY]

Sometimes the game can be outright stupid though with generating rebels as I fought against one rebellion with 2 units of Feudal Men At Arms and about 8 units of naptha throwers. It was ridiculous I took out half of the naptha throwers with one unit of Hobilars stretched as thin as possible and set to charge past their close formations.

Here is one awesome trip with training your generals though... rebellions generate in numbers comparable to the number of men you have in that region. Leave one unit in a troublesome area and you might see 2 units of spearmen appear... beat those spearmen with that one unit and you will be rewarded with a command star and possible bravery virtues for fighting off greater numbers... even if you have 40 feudal knights killing 200 spearmen. You can do this a few times and as long as you leave a very small garrison you won't face much opposition.

Actually, if you leave a side province in a rebellious state what you might get is a faction re-emergence if it is on conquered territory which is an entirely different matter. These guys come back with 3 or 4 stacks of high quality troops which will give your generals plenty of practice.