I'd like the option to be able to promote general, though, and so to be able to take a military genius from the town's militia unit, and make him a noble
I dunno, I rather liked my 9 valour town militia generals unit.
Seriously, I once had a 9 star town militia general with various valour bonuses so that the whole huge size unit was 9 valour, they cut through anything like a hot knife through butter