Promotion to general

[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

[Upxl]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Knight Templar]

My captain has won 4 battles, 3 of them were heroic victories (last one 105 vs 350 men), but it seems he didn't get any command stars. I have alltogether 11 provinces and 7 family members.

[Patricius]

I found that attacking faction leaders or heirs with a captain can provide a very high rate of promotion. I managed in one game to get promotion for killing the Sassanid faction heir. I reloaded and repeated that.

[Knight Templar]

I'll try to attack enemy family members from now on more with captains.

My captain has won 4 battles, 3 of them were heroic victories (last one 105 vs 350 men)

Before the last battle I played about an hour ago, my faction leader died. Than I attacked Egyptian army with the captain above. Although he was killed in battle, his second in command managed to win and got promotion (although he had only one (or half) battle).

One more question, if captain (for example leading horse archers) gets promotion and general bodyguard as his new unit, does his old unit (HA) disappear or not?

[Slug For A Butt]

Gardibolt is correct. It's down to how many family members you have in relation to the number of territories you own.
You can win as many heroic victories as you want, seems to make no difference whatsoever. But, when I have been down to my last couple of family members, I have had MOTH offered every damn turn until I accepted a couple irrespective of the type of battle they had won. Strangely, after I had accepted a couple, they were never offered again.
So surely it can't be down to the type of battles you have fought? It seems like a family survival thing.

*Edit : Yes, when your captain gets MOTH, he becomes a generals unit.

[Upxl]

One more question, if captain (for example leading horse archers) gets promotion and general bodyguard as his new unit, does his old unit (HA) disappear or not?

No,
the unit remains.
Sadly the captain's general unit wont copy the armour upgrades of the unit it belonged to.