King's traits and attributes

[Ironside]

A few comments on Jxrc's exellent cover.

Note that there is something called the wrap-around bug that implies that if your kind has nine command start and if you have high influence you can end up with a 0 star heir cause you will have had a "good" draw that would raise the stat up to 10. Nine being the max, the computer considers that 10=0, 11=1, etc... This applies to all stats but this is more a pain in the neck when the command rating is involved. Regarding the random V&v that your heirs get, I have not seen any pattern that would lead me to believe that they are influence by the V&v of your king. The only exception is that when your king is a great warrior the is a better chance that your heir will have the same v&v.

The wrap around bug seems to be only limited to command when it comes to heirs (while the piety one shows up with jihads/crusades), or have anyone seen it for dread, accuman and piety for heirs?

There's some v&v that goes in the family so to say, great warrior is one them (it simply means that it's random, but with higher odds). The rest is random.

I do not think that the dread of you king has an impact on happiness. Influence increase the loyalty of your general (1 shield be point of influence). The stats of your king do influence the stats of newly generated captains/generals. If your king has four stars or more, it is quite likely that all elite units that you will produce will have between 1 and 3 stars. Likewise, if your king has high Piety or dread, the odds that your general will have a rather high score of the same stat are quite good (for instance if you start an early campaign as England, most of your general with have between 5-6 dread, same for piety if you start as Hungary). WOuld be tempted to say that the same is true with Acumen but in my last French campaign (king with nine acumen) I had a hard time finding enough four quills general to act as governors of my first 5 provinces.

Are you sure that it's the stars and not influence (+stars)? I know I've seen the correlation as well, but I think it needed more than stars. Easy to test with a strong 0-star king (aka wrap around suffering) in any case.

I suspect the accuman is code limited to 4 on trained troops to keep it from going too high. Would give too much of an advantage otherwise I guess.

Edit: The only controlled way of increasing accumen without heavy pruning of the family tree is to survive assassin attemts. One of the 4 lines gives more accumen (one lowers it though).