Gross Disparity in Ability

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You are right. I remember how Polybius described the situation before Cannae: Hannibal was outnumbered, but he could look out over the field into the Roman camp and see only 3 stars floating next to Varro, the Roman General, while he saw 8 stars rising high into the sky next to him. When he saw this disparity in command stars, he knew victory was certain. Lesser generals had to worry about morale, the availability of water, the weather, the terrain, and the individual personal strengths and weaknesses of his commanders and captains. But not Hannibal Barca; he need only look to stars to know that victory was assured.

Of course, when he wasn't feeling up to the challenge, he had his aides compute the various simple math problems required to keep his army marching. 2+2+1-1-1+2 was too much for Hannibal Barca. Besides he could not take the time to be troubled with such simple arithmetic. Instead, he just wanted to fight the battle and be done with it. After all, he had to read the second act of Hamlet for 9th grade english in the morning. He did not have time for such things like logistics, strategy, and realism. Perhaps tomorrow afternoon, once he has finished his milk and cookies, he'll reinstall Vanilla... those arcanii were cool, and the mummy-like egyptians were far more interesting than the Ptolemaioi. Besides, who ever heard of the Getai, anyway?

Yeah thanks man. Seriously it's stupid to put so much effort into command star when they are useless. I took great effort (thanks to the EB acquiring command stars mechanism no less !!!), to build the general to have more stars then I realise every AI general has 10 stars it makes me angry and frustrated.

There is a new thread where a user showed off his cool general with 10 stars in everything. Except when you realise every freak'ing AI general has 10 starts does it not make you feel stupid ???!

It's not about I don't want to go to details and understand all the traits or I only trust command stars, I KNOW they are useless !
My frustration is first, I don't understand, since the command stars are USELESS, why it's made difficult for players to get them and the AI has heaps of them ???!!!!
And secondly, command start SHOULD be used as they are the major visual trait of a character. It's not that hard to tie morale traits with stars. For example every morale trait you get you get a star too. The current system is simply annoying and doesn't make any sense.