Valour (Yes! The favourite discussion!)

[Garnier]

In my Aragon campaign I've been trying to form a vanguard of extremely good troops, and naturally it makes me wonder how valour actually works when it comes from traits and command stars.

1. Say I have a unit of feudal knights, and the leader of the unit has the Pride trait. Does this make the entire unit have effectively +3 valour during a battle? Or does this +3 only affect the single man who has the trait?

2. I have a general with 8 command stars, so it shows all the men fighting under him as having +4 valour. Is this real valour during the battle? Does a unit with 4 valour because of being led by an 8 star general fight just as good as a 4 valour unit who actually earned that valour and isn't being led by a general?

[seireikhaan]

1. The entire unit will gain the bonus from a trait such as pride. However, it also should be noted that if the general of an army has this trait, it will be counted twice, giving double the bonus. I believe this was an unfixed bug.

2. An 8 star general will confer the +4 attack and defense that comes with the valor. However, he will not grant a morale bonus.

[bondovic]

2. An 8 star general will confer the +4 attack and defense that comes with the valor. However, he will not grant a morale bonus.

Well, he will, technically speaking, although the "valor" that comes from the stars won't. The stars of a general confer attack and defense as well as morale, but as separate values. The valor indicator simply represents the increase in attack and defense values. The morale value confered, on the other hand, is +1 morale for every star when a unit is within 50 m of the general on the battlemap, and +1 morale for every two stars when a unit is farther away than that.