building up generals help!

[mcantu]

I had posted this over at twc when the same question came up there. Its what CA had to say about command stars (although Foot disagrees)

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...1&postcount=15

It currently affects both morale and combat ability - we tried it for a while with just morale, but it ended up being not enough of a bonus. The combat calculations have changed so much from Rome to Medieval as to be unrecogniseable, so it's no longer easy to equate stars to experience.

As a rule of thumb it's one point of attack per command rank, up to a maximum of 10, and this can become negative for very bad generals. This combat bonus is applied to all troops under his command on the battlefield. Experience is one point of attack and one point of defense per chevron, plus a morale bonus as well.

The general's command also controls his radius-of-effect, which is set to 30 m + 5 m * command + 2 m * influence. This is used to award morale bonusses to nearby units (in addition to the combat bonus), and when testing which units are affected it tests the distance between the actual general's position and the centre-point of the unit being considered.

So according to this the attack bonus (from command stars) is applied to the entire army. The morale bonus is applied to units within a certain radius (and it looks like it can be a pretty large radius).

[bovi]

It seems it is not entirely accurate; it's a pretty old post so later patches may have changed things. If you pit a unit with 13 attack, 10 defence with no general present against a unit with 3 attack, 10 defence and a 10-star general (not taking active part), the 13 attack one will beat the 3 attack one.

[KuKulzA]

I dunno man, I just keep killin things... esp. if your a nomadic faction just keep ridin' and shootin'...
when you're a nomad, life is a drive-by... and you just keep shooting till you've got good stars

keep kicking butt and you'll get there

[kemozz]

i usually don't play out the battles on the map and i find that having no command stars will usually result in a loss when using the auto resolve battles (no cheats). this experience is rather frustrating. it appears that somehow the command stars play a role whn auto resolving battles on the campaign map. why won't the eb team relax the command star traits just to satisfy everyone. i've seen this topic come up on this forum a thousand times in the past year. i don't mind the other trait boosts that u guys have implemented but whats wrong with having command stars too. and why should it be so hard to get these stars specially that there are about a thousand other traits giving you negative command star. if you guess could fix this then great if u don't then it doesn't matter cuz this mod is still great

peace out

[glouch]

yes indeed!

[pseudocaesar]

I got Lucius Cornelius Africanus to 9 stars i believe, he walks around with 8, but when i attack he has 10, defends 9. Something like that, he is a legend, i conquered Africa, Greece and Egypt with him lmao.