Succession during battle

[Sirron]

I have fought a nice battle for Flanders against the French (me: English, high period, vanilla MTW, expert level) on Saturday night. Very early during the battle the king´s unit (with standard of a general) attacked my troops, but I flanked with feudal knights and feudal sergeants and the king died. I cheered for a second or two, as I had expected the note about the loss of general´s unit. But nothing happened, only the second unit of French royal knights (led by the prince) suddenly changed the banner to general´s with little crown on top of it!

Have you ever noticed such succession in royal line during the battle?

[Roark]

Damn... Didn't know it was built into the game.

So there was no big morale hit on the enemy troops?

[Sirron]

No, French morale was not affected , at all. You can imagine my surprise when the new royal standard appeared and the French kept attacking.

Eventually, after much bloodshed, my troops (actually my king with last of his bodyguards) killed the new king of France...

My king John killed 2 kings of France in a single battle, this mighty deed will be remembered for a long time...

[naut]

Wow, never realised this can happen.

[Sirron]

Actually this change of king/commander during the battle, can give some support to those views (discussed few day ago) that backed the idea of changing command to second best general after the killing/capture of original leader, see thread:

Battlefield Leadership: Shouldn't the "Lieutenant" have some significance?

[caravel]

Actually this change of king/commander during the battle, can give some support to those views (discussed few day ago) that backed the idea of changing command to second best general after the killing/capture of original leader, see thread:

Battlefield Leadership: Shouldn't the "Lieutenant" have some significance?

I've never seen this happen, though I have seen two generals on the field at once. That was a bug.