Promotion to general

**Knight Templar** · 02-21-2006, 22:10

I'm currently playing my second RTW campaign with Parthians and have 8 family members at the moment. I was wondering how many battles does a captain have to win to be promoted to general and on what does it depend on?

Thanks in advance

**Upxl** · 02-21-2006, 22:50

Originally Posted by Knight Templar

I'm currently playing my second RTW campaign with Parthians and have 8 family members at the moment. I was wondering how many battles does a captain have to win to be promoted to general and on what does it depend on?

Thanks in advance

It depends on the fact Generals/provinces.

You could go for ages without getting that promotion.
I red in frogbeast’s guide that “when a captain gets promoted to two stars you get the option of adopting”
I found this to be incorrect.
It also happens after an “Heroic battle”
But still this depends on how many family members/province

I’m playing the Roman campaign now and have a low % off governors.
Even after a “victory is almost certain” battle I still get asked to adopt the captain in my family.

**gardibolt** · 02-21-2006, 23:07

It seems to be part of the self-regulating character of the game to make sure you have enough family members to control your empire--if you have less than 2 family members for every 3 cities, you'll get Men of the Hour pretty rapidly. If more, they will come seldom, if at all.

**Cowhead418** · 02-22-2006, 00:52

I adopted a captain after the family member leading the army was killed. He won two small battles, became a five-star general and then was adopted. The same thing happened when another family member was killed. The captain won a medium-sized battle and then was immediately adopted into the family. It is probably because I had a small amount of family members at the time.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 02-22-2006, 20:31

Here's something I found that works.

Get a depleted unit of 4-8 guys then attack a fair sized rebel force but have a family member with an army in the zone. The family member will do the fighting and your boy will get the credit for defeating the enemy with his six guys.