Quote Originally Posted by Tuidjy
I am having the same problem as the original poster. I was lucky enough to get one man of the hour the first year, but I have been sending hospitalier knights against huge stacks since, and no luck. I wish I understood the requirements for promoting a winning captain.
As far as I know, it's the same as RTW: it triggers when you don't have a certain threshold number of generals, relative to the number of provinces you own. You'll get more Men of the Hour promotions if you conquer territory rapidly (more rapidly than the normal birth/maturation of family members), or if you lose a bunch of male family members to disease, assassination, or combat.

You might be able to trigger more captain promotions with your Holy Land armies if you kill off family members and generals back home, like sending them solo against big rebel stacks. Of course the trade-off is that you might be sacrificing high-ranked generals with good retinues for newbies, just to gain geographic position.

At least I think that's how it works. It's basically a quota system.