Command Stars

[bmalik420]

Quick question. Whenever I get half way into the game, I realized it's harder for me to win any battles because all of my generals have no stars under the commanding area. Because of this, I can't expand anymore or win any battles because the opposing faction have a couple of stars to their commanding area. Any tips or helpful comments would be really appreciated.

[HoreTore]

Well, the best way to get command stars, is fighting a battle... Any battle will do, sending your lone general to smash a one unit rebel stack will do just fine. Some buildings(like academy) also improves it, but the best way by far is to simply fight some battles.

Note that if you are much stronger than the enemy, you wont get any stars. I think the limit is 3:1 in your favour at the pre-battle screen. Not sure about that though.

[FactionHeir]

Win some battles. Your generals will gain command stars quickly enough that way. And also don't overpower the target. The less units you bring into battle, the higher the chances of getting command traits

[SultanSaladin]

well .. fight battles and you get command stars but keep your generals in a city for a short period of time and they will get some bad traits what could take those stars away ...

[Skott]

I keep a small fighting force or two constantly patrolling my territories for rebels. I keep my unused generals in these small armies. Most of the rebel forces are easy to beat and give the generals stars. I swap out the generals as they gain stars with generals that dont have any. Its like a constant training force pool I can pull from as needed. As mentioned its best not to keep generals in cities if you can help it. Keep them working and earning experience.

[sapi]

Put all your bad generals into an army and throw them against rebels.

Once the leader gets over 3 or 4 stars, send him away, rinse and repeat

[gingergenius]

you don't really need well starred generals. I just need Generals. I have 84 territories and only 50 generals to govern them. Usually if a 'Born Conqueror' comes up I'll use him a lot, but apart from that most of the battles are easy enough to win as it is. It's quite nice to lose one once in a while, since the vast majority of mine so far have involved useless enemy stacks.

[bmalik420]

Thanks!

[Orda Khan]

You will see command stars changing for reasons other than quoted so far and it's pretty poor to say the least. I had a 10 star 'Saint' who became a 4 star 'hardly impressive in command' just because he went a few turns without a battle. This is absolute rubbish a tactical genius does not suddenly become incompetant

.......Orda

[FactionHeir]

Thats probably because he lost a battle in between due to the way antitraits work. A legendary commander (+5) can lose all command skill by losing just 1 battle.

[Foz]

Thats probably because he lost a battle in between due to the way antitraits work. A legendary commander (+5) can lose all command skill by losing just 1 battle.

Right... but he shouldn't be able to. Antitraits are bugged!

There's a fix linked in my sig for anyone interested - makes it only deduct the appropriate amount of antitrait points instead of all of them. As it turns out, this is the same thing that was causing the agents to go crazy, losing all or nearly all of their skill points at once when they failed. The initial fixes targeted the agents specifically, but failed to fix any of the others as they were less obvious. The full fix sprawled a lot by comparison to the agent-only fixes, but doesn't seem to give any noticeable slowdown in-game, and solves the entire problem.

[Orda Khan]

Thats probably because he lost a battle in between due to the way antitraits work. A legendary commander (+5) can lose all command skill by losing just 1 battle.

He has never lost a battle, his command rating dropped because he was marching. The whole thing is bugged

........Orda

[Carl]

@Orda: I just checked the File and their NOTHING in their that is triggered by using up all your movment, In fact the only movment related triggers i could find equired you to have all your points remaning. In addittion theirs only a coupld of traits that could lose you more than one command even with the anti-traits bug.

Without a lost battle your limiting yourself to being stuck in a settelment and having a brothel or above in their, and even then it's an incredibbly low chance of losing 6 command in that many turns.

Of couse I cold have missed a trigger, if I have could you tell me what it is if you know please?

p.s. i'm not saying your lying, i just don't understand how you could lose so many points so quickly out in the open feild.