Killing off your king in battle

[vonsch]

Heh, Send artillery with your king. Send him in to attack and have the artillery attack the same target.

Artillery friendly fire is... common.

[Lorenzo_H]

Step 1: Build a cog (or get your worst ship unit ie the ones that have like 5 men left)
Step 2: Put crappy general on board said ship
Step 3: Send ship by itself to attack the nearest enemy port, fleet or at least send it into pirate invested waters.
Step 4: Listen. You can almost hear the general scream from hell.

[Husar]

If the enemies built Janissary heavy infantry or Forlorn Hope, you could send them against these, many enemy generals/kings in one army are also an option. But I think diablodelmar has a great solution.

[Foz]

For those solutions that include allowing the king/general to get attacked by enemies, it's advisable to set the unit up so the man is closest to the incoming unit, and thus bears the brunt of the charge. IIRC they are often on the left, so you typically want the enemies coming into the left side of the bodyguard unit. With that done, you'll mostly find that the king/general dies long before the rest of his unit would reach rout status, so it takes away the problems of having him rout and thus run away from the combat.

[Razor1952]

I particularly like back turned to enemy artillery, but i found boat the easiest solution.

I guess your guy is a lost cause, but I had a problem playing chivalrous with high dread kings, every time I killed one the next king was just as bad , I wish I could nominate heirs, but I guess thats "unmedieval". I was left with making my king chivalrous from +8 dread, I was able to get him to +1 dread which was a big improvement but not really what I wanted.

[Callahan9119]

Step 1: Build a cog (or get your worst ship unit ie the ones that have like 5 men left)
Step 2: Put crappy general on board said ship
Step 3: Send ship by itself to attack the nearest enemy port, fleet or at least send it into pirate invested waters.
Step 4: Listen. You can almost hear the general scream from hell.

yeah i hate it when a guy i send to his death gets away, taking him on a crappy sea voyage to the lands of pirates usually works best...those generals can really move when they decide to rout