Quote Originally Posted by Del Arroyo
I dunno I've had some big battles where I had to commit my general or lose. Sometimes the melee is that close. Experience has taught me to always hold off committing him, though.

DA
It's also been my experience that if you never commit your general, he might get a coward trait in rare instances. It doesn't matter much with a 9 star except against another 9 star, but it's really annoying to see a coward trait on him.

He's usually good for hunting down routers to smashing into the rear or tthe engaged enemy general Maximus-like(Gladiator's Germania battle).

If you like to be risky, once your general is reduced to one man, you could try and see how much valour you can pile on the bastard.