Quote Originally Posted by jhhowell

Generals losing loyalty about as fast (or faster) than they gain command stars is also interesting - no more "Vibius the Butcher" style supermen, and you have to think whether it's worth using your top commanders before a battle.
Hah! Vibius gets some press. In his defence and as an aside- Vibius the Butcher was the only truly great faction leader I had in that compaign (now completed). I don't think it is historicaly inaccurate that once ever twenty or so generations an ubermensch emerges and changes his world. The kind of man that manifests as the culmination of the zeitgeist of an epoch, he rides the wave as much as he IS the wave. His spirit prevails as a pseudo deity, an ideal which millions will fight and die for long after his death. Gaius Julius was such a man, as was Augustus, Alexander, we come close with Washington etc. More recently even Patton, Chesty Puller and the like.

So personaly I don't have a problem with the Uber characters if they only emerge very rarely.