Improving your generals stars

[Captain Pugwash]

Can anyone give a few simple tips on how to improve your generals command rating. In RTW it was fairly straight forward win battles and collect/swap ancillaries. I have tried to get similar results in M2TW but without any great success. My best was a german king who started life as a 4* and did two crusades and died as a 8* having fought all his life. However the drawback was everyone else ticked over at the 2-4 mark, with noone really excelling. I notice that when the Mongrels arrive you are faced with what a dozen or so starred out generals and I would like to give them some opposition. There must be some easy win/win tricks. I have read someone that some good traits can be aquired by fighting but if you go to far you end up with the opposite. I am about to strat on 1.02 and have amended the VnV file using Faction Heirs slight mod.

Thanks

[HoreTore]

Well, there isn't much to do other than fight some battles. Remember though, if your army is more than twice the strength of the other army, you wont get many traits.

[Philbert]

Having the general shed some blood himself helps. If your general performs a couple of good charges and he gets a good headcount, he will be more respected by his men.

[Zarky]

It´s not just having full Command rating.... It´s also morale and situations, you don´t need to get your general more than 8, then you get Night Fighter and with enough night fighting you get Night owl or Likes Dark (total +2 on nights) and also attacking / defending. If born with 1-2* it will be unbelivibly hard to get it full, specially if you want truly chivalrious general (Fine With Blood and such give +dread) and get generals to town until they start to drink a bit or hope they start with Sober or Abhors Drink (at one point almost every family member of mine was Sober...) kills morale but give command and personal security.