Help! All mi generals are useless morons!

[john289]

I'm proud of one, and only one, general in all of my EB campaigns. He was the son of an Ipea Gaul, but his mother most of been plain Gaul, because he turned out a plain Gaul. Anyways, I had positioned his father to be the Governor of Bibracte. He was born just after I had extended my sphere of influence to all of Italia and Iberia, and was attempting to expand it into Carthage.

His father was a brilliant man with 10 influence and management, but with only 3 command stars. I could tell this might be the Gaullic Alexander the second he was born, sharp/charismatic/vigorous and unselfish/optimistic/loyal. I don't have a screenshot of the starting traits, but they were something like extroverted, optimistic(the trait) and hale and hearty. I passed as many combat related ancilliaries to him as I could. At the time of his birth I was having some bandit related provinces in Gaul, so i sent his bodyguard unit and him with zero supporting cast at them and autoassigned, which is pretty effective, actually. Within two years he had the famously courageous trait, the special Celtic related bravery trait, veteran, good attacker, warmonger, tier2 good leader/tactician. With the ancilliaries, he had 9 Command stars when attacking, which easily beat out/tied the AI and their boost.

I sent him to Carthaginian front and even though he's only 23, he's succesfully conquered all their large settlements and defeated thier army, which accelerated my warplan tremendously. Without Qart Hadast itself, they started soaring into debt(they'd stayed out even though i'd taken all their islands and holdings in Iberia) and crushed their standing armies, which was no easy task. The only reason I managed to defeat those big powerful Elite African Infantry and Pikemen was because of the morale boost he gave to troops. Troops that fought with him just wouldn't break.

Once he'd limited the Carthaginians to only desert provinces and had them weakened to the point of no return, I sent him back to Gaul, as the Sweboz were trying to rampage into my territory. He stopped them dead in their tracks and made Germania a province of Gaul, although I added a roleplay element and had him initiate reforms in all formerly German held settlements. I currently having him leading a Guerrilla war from Qart Hadast against the remnants of the Carthaginian military, and I'm enjoying immensly, as it really does feel like a tribal desert war, nearly all the troops used on both sides of the conflict are Numidian Javelinmen. Almost as much as I enjoyed typing this longass post out. Almost. After the buisness with Carthage is settled, I plan to have him lead and coordinate and invasion of Greece from Crete and Southern Italia. It shouldn't be hard, I'll just take out the Makedonians first, then go after the Hellenes, and finally turn on my allies, the Epeirotes. After that, you know, I'll have a new general take over that's about 30 years younger and have him go after the Dacians(who I'm using as a proxy state to prevent Armenian Generals from getting too ambitious in the steppe). Once that buisness is handled, I'll have all of mainland Europe except for Britain, who is obviously next on the list. If there's time left to continue the campaign, meaning a new version or patch doesn't come out, I'll begin expeditions in the East which I expect to be easy. The Neitos don't be fallin to no Machimoi Phalangati.

EB members are right when they say that you will eventually just get a guy that totally dominates the field. You'll usually be able to see him coming aswell. I do however, wish that the AI command star boost would be removed because it makes 99 percent of my generals look bad and I don't see how it adds balance into the game.