Question: General's Battlefield Influence and Distance from Units

**zstajerski** · 03-30-2007, 16:33

hehe
am wondering the same :)
although i have made myself happy thinking he screms at the enemy come back cowards :)

**wzup** · 03-30-2007, 18:27

always keep him close to the action, but not close enough to get killed heheh

**FactionHeir** · 03-30-2007, 19:18

Command, as Chivalry, both influence morale positively when a unit is close to the general's unit. The distance is approx 10-15 trebuchet lengths.

**_Tristan_** · 03-30-2007, 20:52

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Command, as Chivalry, both influence morale positively when a unit is close to the general's unit. The distance is approx 10-15 trebuchet lengths.

That covers almost the entire battlefield...

**FactionHeir** · 03-30-2007, 20:55

Trebuchet lengths, not trebuchet fire distances

**_Tristan_** · 03-30-2007, 20:59

Sorry...I thought you meant fire distances...

I'm a little touchy on any trebuchet matters...

**Whacker** · 03-30-2007, 21:04

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Command, as Chivalry, both influence morale positively when a unit is close to the general's unit. The distance is approx 10-15 trebuchet lengths.

Just curious... How do you know this for a fact? Is it somewhere in the configs?

**FactionHeir** · 03-30-2007, 21:22

Call it personal experience. I didn't give some formula afterall, but the AI is passive enough that I can run fun tests in the heat of battle.

Morale just tends to sharply drop off when a unit exits the general's morale radius (especially noticable when fighting timurids)

**TevashSzat** · 03-31-2007, 02:07

Yea, command and chivalry both improve morale. You might to be able to even find that in the manual but I'm not that sure of it

**Whacker** · 03-31-2007, 03:01

Certainly Chiv/Dread and Command improve morale in the battles, noone is disputing those facts. The question is how exactly does it work? Factionhair 's (heh) anecdotal evidence is welcome and may be a true indicator, but we can't know for sure. My guess this is sadly yet another variable or mechanic buried in game code that CA will not tell us how it works.