King in battle, but wasn't the general!

**macsen rufus** · 05-19-2006, 10:16

It happened again, this time in Samurai beta6 mod - originally the pre-battle screen showed my Daimyo as general, but after opening and closing the re-inforcements panel the 4* general took over, and the Daimyo reverted to an ordinary unit on the battlefield again. SO, my guess is that it does somehow tie in to the reinforcement procedure, maybe opening up the panel makes it forget who's the king??? Hmmm...

**R'as al Ghul** · 05-19-2006, 12:01

Two rules about Generals:

1. The General with the highest amount of * will lead your army, even if your King or Daimyo is present.
2. The unit in the top left rectangle will lead your army.
2a. This is by default the highest ranking General. However, if you edit the order of your troops, say put reinforcements up, then you might change which unit is in the top left.
The result is that whatever unit is positioned there will take the command.

**Ironside** · 05-19-2006, 16:05

Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul

Two rules about Generals:
1. The General with the highest amount of * will lead your army, even if your King or Daimyo is present.

Not generally. Had a battle where the Byz 3-star king led the battle. It was 2 9-star generals(!) among the reinforcements.

And it's the bottom left corner.

Edit: Yeah make that the right corner. Wasn't really waken that day

**macsen rufus** · 05-19-2006, 17:05

Normally the king always takes command as he outranks everyone regardless of command ability. It is possible to put someone else in charge IF you have enough units for reinforcements, in which case pop your king down in the bottom panel out of the way. In this last case though, all I did was look at the bottom panel. BEFORE I opened it the Daimyo WAS the general (it was a Daimyo vs. Daimyo battle to start with), but AFTER I closed it the glorious 4* general "Spare Hero Slot"

had taken over. I moved no units about myself, but the new general had moved himself into that bottom right slot when I scrolled back up.

And the general is usually in the bottom right slot (we'll get there in the end....) Once again, I bet I don't have the game saved to play with it more!

**R'as al Ghul** · 05-21-2006, 11:45

Originally Posted by macsen rufus

BEFORE I opened it the Daimyo WAS the general (it was a Daimyo vs. Daimyo battle to start with), but AFTER I closed it the glorious 4* general "Spare Hero Slot"

And the general is usually in the bottom right slot (we'll get there in the end....) Once again, I bet I don't have the game saved to play with it more!

A loyalty problem? A coup d'etat?

Yes, bottom right corner is correct. Sorry.