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.

**shifty157** · 11-12-2006, 06:29

I believe there are also bonuses/penalties for things like city management.

**Furious Mental** · 11-12-2006, 08:23

If you capture prisoners, isn't the bonus for going the middle road (ransoming them) that you get a ton of money?

**alpaca** · 11-12-2006, 17:11

Presumably Chivalry and Dread also govern a lot of traits, which means that you'll probably be more likely to get greed or similar traits that increase squalor and stuff if you have high Dread, and you'd more likely get generous traits that decrease tax income with high Chivalry. No idea really, I don't have the game yet ;)