Traits and Ancillaries Brainstorming and Suggestions Thread

[econ21]

To be honest, I don't worry much about the ancillaries, especially in EB where the ones that give you command stars seem to have gone. However, the salient exception is the churigeon (sp?), which is very valuable - especially in EB, where you cannot retrain your army so easily while campaigning far afield. Incidentally, could you check what other ancillaries are incompatible with the churigeon? I have a very nice general but he is not worth taking to the field, as I can't give him a churigeon. I wonder if it is because he has a physician? If so, it's a poor trade, as the physician is pretty tame compared to the churigeon.

I really like the EB traits system, although my more successful generals seem to pick up the desert fighter one in the most unlikely locations (snowy Germanic woods etc).

[Dooz]

The desert warrior issue has been addressed and I believe will be fixed in the future builds.

[mediobogdum]

I can confirm that the Physician & Chirguron are mutually exclusive. Its not bad however because while Chirguron only helps battle casualties while the physician does battle casualties and something else that helps that specific general (I think its better chance of children or something).
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Copied from EB Ancillary breakdown:

physician
Ancillary physician Image older_man_ancillary.tga ExcludedAncillaries doctor, herbalist, chirurgeon ExcludeCultures barbarian, eastern Description physician_desc
physician : Fertility 1, BattleSurgery 5


Ancillary chirurgeon Image older_man_ancillary.tga ExcludedAncillaries doctor, herbalist, physician ExcludeCultures barbarian Description chirurgeon_desc
chirurgeon : BattleSurgery 10


OK well I guess its not as good for a strict battling general because ch gives 10 battsurgery vs just 5 for the physician.

[Rilder]

Heres a suggestion for a couple traits...

Son of the King: Being son of the king makes you quite influential among the faction +2 infuence (only available to factions that have kings hehe)

Brother Of the King: Being Brother to the king is a great honor. +1 infuence
(only available to factions that have kings)

Maby one for the faction leader when the faction increases a certain number of provinces, like "Great Leader of His people": This man has made his Kingdom/Empire/etc?? Greatly stronger and will be remembered among his people for centuries to come +4(?) infuence

there that should be good as i cant think of anymore