Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
Then my best king will have been a 3 star general and my best general a 4 star including a title boost (he's also a drinker).
My king doesn't have to be 6+ stars but 3 or 4 star would be nice. But every heir that has at least some stats (rather rare) seems to develope a drinking habit or something similar (pride, ...) after a few years wich makes him another 0 star general.
Well thanks to that starting influence is considerbly linked with the heir's stats is very hard to maintain a stable 3-5 star bloodline for several generations. They'll either go up or down.

To get decent generals you will probably have to train them. Start with a 0-2 star with some good v&v and get them into combat a few times to up thier stats. Can also get the most decent hier into that training and arrange "accidents" for his older brothers to improve the king that way. Although iirc you can use your king in combat in VI, the map is small enough to make the "distance to king"-bug manageble.

This will have to be rebellions I assume, as you don't want war yet.