Quote Originally Posted by Foot
Stars give troops near the general a morale bonus, traits can give all units in the army a morale bonus.
Going a little off-topic - are you saying that all command stars do in vanilla RTW is alter morale? JeromeGrasdyke said they raised the attack stats of troops, but therother's tests did make him query that:

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