Why so glum?

[Fleeb]

May just be me, but every campaign, using any faction, all my generals get the "gloomy" trait and eventually go morose. Every single one. Why does this happen, and how do I keep it from happening? It's really starting to bug me.

[Pharnakes]

Give them all a free package holiday to go and see the games... from the inside. That'll teach em!

[bovi]

At least there would be a rush of optimistic adoptees coming, irrationally .
Anyway, there are lots and lots of ways to get this trait, most of them unlikely. If you force march a lot or survive a lot of assassination attempts, you're likely to see the trait however.

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Anyway, there are lots and lots of ways to get this trait, most of them unlikely. If you force march a lot or survive a lot of assassination attempts, you're likely to see the trait however.

They also tend to get gloomy if they're under siege in a city. That doesn't apply to all, though.

[Pharnakes]

It realy just depends on the optimistic/pessimistic trait, surely.

[Fleeb]

Maybe, although it seems like, at one point or another, every single general will become gloomy. Optimist/ pessimist notwithstanding. And I very rarely get seiged.

Playing Lusotann right now, and 4 of my 5 generals are gloomy (and the one that's not is age 17). My last campaign was Casse, and every single general was gloomy. Before that I played Romans, and it was a while ago, but a very large number were gloomy IIRC.

May be the force marching thing, I do tend to push them hard.

Is it possible to just remove that trait? Without screwing the game up too badly I hope.