Fantasy to reality (A 10 star general)

[Ice]

Are you kidding? Always keep them in cities. With the right education building, they become fantastic governors. Even commanders benefit from educational traits in cities.

[Digby Tatham Warter]

Are you kidding? Always keep them in cities. With the right education building, they become fantastic governors. Even commanders benefit from educational traits in cities.

Because of this, I build up school's to the top level as soon as I can afford it, in centralized area's, so that I can relatively easily send all my family members to school.

I then use these centre's of learning(by ports where possible) as pool's for collecting swapable retinues, before my family members get their assignments.

There is one point though, I am not sure about, and that is, when you have say, an excess of six family members in one city, do they aquire their traits/retinues more slowly than if they were just two in there for example?

[bovi]

No, the learning centers can service any number of family members.

[Digby Tatham Warter]

Thanks for clearing that little niggling doubt up, bovi, mi old sausage!

[Orb]

My Armenian general Mher the Conqueror had 10 stars, he led the grand elite-horse-archer-and-skirmisher-cav-army in its delightful 0.74 form into Asia Minor, expelled the Ptolemies and Seleucids alike, and two turns after he reaches his 10th star, he died of plague, along with half of my elite army, in that midget Ptolemies' settlement in Asia Minor.

That was irritating, particularly considering the number of KH forces of doom in Asia Minor. I repelled them...eventually.

[Sdragon]

Problem is that academies are great and all but when on campaign in Gaul or some none built up area there are none. Those towns do nothing but ruin good generals. I keep my fighters in the field unless I must. I'm perfectly happy letting my managers stay indoors. I usually end up making management guys garrison and defend boarder cities so my fighters don't get lover of beauty I understand how the trait system works, but its just nice to see a general who you spent so long working on get those stars. So much work is needed to gain them but because you had to leave him garrisoning some minor town you lose those gains due to some lover of beauty or connoisseur trait which seems to magically make him forget how to lead.