I've been noticing lately that the generals in my game seem a little too hard to kill I play on m/m. For example I was attacking an eluetheroi town as HK. The wierd thing is the general was on foot with an iphikratides unit even though he was an actual character and had about 6 stars. So any way I slowly killed of his unit until it was just him left and i had him surrounded by loads of spear men and peltasts. It took about 5 minutes of my men jabbing at him and knockng him over until finally he went down. It was just kind of ridiculous how long he was able to stay alive.
Other generals have also seemed to be uber strong and just wont go down even when completely circled by enemies.
I have done a little messing around with the defense points of the casse general and to tell the truth I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing, but all I did was to raise his defense numbers.

Could this have caused other generals to some how get stronger?

Has anyone else encountered ridiculously strong generals?
or is this just normal for EB?

thanks