Best Way to Gain Command Stars

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Command Stars add to defense and morale, if I'm not mistaken. Besides for certain factions such as Romani it's the key to the Consulship or several of them depending on the amount of command.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Command Stars add to defense and morale, if I'm not mistaken.

Just morale. So far, no conclusive evidence supports the defence or even an attack bonus, as some people claim. I would really like to know what is the radius of that morale bonus though. Pretty much the only good thing that comes out of the command stars is the fact that they look "real pretty" when you are looking at that certain general. In EB, your soldier's morale is not nearly as important as in vanilla. In RTW/BI units sustained 70% or more casualties and routed all in mere seconds, especially in cav. vs cav. engagements.

I do not really have any problem with command stars. My generals serve usually no more than fifteen and usually only ten years in the military, all of them attaining more than five stars. My average general has 7 stars but only four of my generals has 8 stars. If I actually sent my Faction Leader into battle, he could easily gain 10 stars as he gained his 8 stars by doing nothing except sitting in Roma for his entire life. Despite this, all of my thirty-something 7 star generals have 10 stars when attacking, be it a field or siege battle since just about every one of them has the Confident Attacker and Gate Breaker traits along with the Runner ancillary. I am playing Romani, BTW.

[mcantu]

Just morale. So far, no conclusive evidence supports the defence or even an attack bonus, as some people claim. I would really like to know what is the radius of that morale bonus though. Pretty much the only good thing that comes out of the command stars is the fact that they look "real pretty" when you are looking at that certain general. In EB, your soldier's morale is not nearly as important as in vanilla. In RTW/BI units sustained 70% or more casualties and routed all in mere seconds, especially in cav. vs cav. engagements.

I do not really have any problem with command stars. My generals serve usually no more than fifteen and usually only ten years in the military, all of them attaining more than five stars. My average general has 7 stars but only four of my generals has 8 stars. If I actually sent my Faction Leader into battle, he could easily gain 10 stars as he gained his 8 stars by doing nothing except sitting in Roma for his entire life. Despite this, all of my thirty-something 7 star generals have 10 stars when attacking, be it a field or siege battle since just about every one of them has the Confident Attacker and Gate Breaker traits along with the Runner ancillary. I am playing Romani, BTW.

CA has already stated that defense stars affect the defense stats of a generals entire army and the morale of units within a certain variable radius.

the radius for the morale bonus is (30 m + 5 m * command + 2 m * influence)

[Aemilius Paulus]

CA has already stated that defense stars affect the defense stats of a generals entire army and the morale of units within a certain variable radius.

the radius for the morale bonus is (30 m + 5 m * command + 2 m * influence)

Yes, but testing was done by numerous players, and in Ludus Magna with results showing no difference in performance between a unit led by 10 infl. & comm. general and a unit not led by any general. There was a noticeable change in the morale, but the basic stats - defence and offence seemed to be the same.

[mcantu]

yes, i'm familiar with those threads in the Ludus Magna. however, most of those tests were done in 2004/2005. Jerome stated that later RTW builds had the affects of command star bonuses changed

and there is no offensive bonus applied; only defensive