General Death

[limitedwhole]

Does anything effect how old your general can get or is it just random? Do the In the Pink traits from teh health generals allow them to live longer? I'm guessing the ancillaries like doctor and physician don't because they don't say they do, but I thought the trait like about HP might? Has anyone looked into teh code and figured out what effects general death? Do general's in teh field have a better chance of taking cold than those in a city (barring plague of course)?

[Ludens]

Does anything effect how old your general can get or is it just random?

I think it is random, but no one really knows. I doubt hitpoints influence health; after all the "scarred" line of traits also adds hitpoints, but heavy scarring does not extend your life expectancy.

[Garvanko]

I've found that Generals in the field have a longer life expectancy than Governors.

[Avicenna]

Do traits like 'One foot in the grave' increase chances of dying every turn?

Garvanko: there's a thread about old generals somewhere, and all of them seem to be generals who get dumped into settlements.

[Bombasticus Maximus]

How does the game define traits to a general? I've had a few that were "weak chinned" Thats not very moral boosting if you see a roman general crying infront of his troops.

[Ciaran]

Some are random, some come from what the character does or where he stays (namely the buildings in the respective city) and some are influenced by the parents.

I´m not certain what makes a character long-lived, but in my current Julii game I´ve got a couple of family members of respectable age (almost all got over seventy), most of them from the early generation, the one that had to do everything by themselves, while the following generation tended to expire at an earlier age. So, I suppose to go about in the field is good for the health, at least as long as one doesn´t get killed in battle, of course.