Chivalry and dread. Quick question.

**PickledGecko** · 11-12-2006, 02:36

The manual says that having high chivalry gives your troops a moral bonus and that high dread reduces the enemy soldiers moral.

So, if i kill prisoners my dread goes up. But, if I have high chivalry and I kill pirsoners I lose chivalry, right? They're both the same, just different ends of the spectrum?

Is there a negative effect for either? What I mean is, is there any point in trying to strike a balance?

If I have max chivalry I get a really high moral bonus. If I have max dread my enemy get a really high moral penalty.

So, if I strike a balance, I get no bonus at all? Therefore, if I have a general with 1 dread point, it would be better to make sure he gets higher dread points, rather than weakening him by doing something chivalrous and putting him back to zero?

**econ21** · 11-12-2006, 02:39

Yes, I'm coming to the same conclusion. Sad as it is for a person in my job to admit it, but moderation is a bad thing.

**Marius Dynamite** · 11-12-2006, 03:10

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

**scourgeofrome** · 11-12-2006, 04:01

Originally Posted by Marius Dynamite

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

Bright side:Early warning sign for attacks.Though it shows some stupidity on his part.

**ByzantineKnight** · 11-12-2006, 04:02

Originally Posted by Marius Dynamite

I guess they must do other things. If you click on an enemy general with high Chivalry, he says something along the lines of .. ' I guess that it would be only gentlemen like for me to inform you that I intend to attack'

I done that to a French general who was in my region. He attacked a few turns later in a different region.

lol

You might get like heratic traits if you have loads of dread...

**eefums** · 11-12-2006, 04:32

If you have a very chivalric general, do great deeds and go crusade and such with him..but I'd execute rape and pillage with a dreadful one :). I wouldn't try to get into the gray ambiguity with it.