Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
If they do it, they should remove a bunch of the economic and diplomatic options. A war that will be fought in 5-10 years shouldn't be decided by such things.

The generals traits would be really nice. It was one of the features I looked forward to most in mtw. Unfortunatly I don't think I ever got one in battle, you hardly ever seemed to fight and you had bunches of good generals anyway. Not like shogun where I would take my rank 3 daimyo and fight with him until he was rank 6.
The only traits you seemed to get in battle in MTW were the coward line of vices and the skilled attacker/defender line. Others such as chivalrous, famously brave, etc etc seem to appear at random iny my experience. The traits system in RTW seems to work better, though some of the traits themselves are very generic. I'm not a long term RTW player so maybe I haven't encountered all of the traits yet, but I have found that there are many that simply give +1 influence or +1 management, or +1 command of the general and don't seem to effect his unit in terms of valour. The retinues have similar effects. The system is there but, as ever, it's simply not being used correctly.