Yes but you could also get disc, morale, or other combat bonuses from being a general
Are there any benefits to giving my ruler military command?
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Early in the game, it's likely that you won't hit the rng jackpot and your ruler will be a much better general than you can get with low army tradition.
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Main reason to do it by far is to make the ruler die earlier (on average). Can't remember the last time I did it for other reasons.
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If you have a high MIL ruler and low army trad, and really need an edge in war, making your ruler/heir can be that edge. In the staggeringly vast number of cases though, a high MIL ruler is going to be more militarily useful generating mana for longer than risking death on the battlefield, so "make ruler a general" is basically a way to try and arrange an accidental firing squad while drilling.
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According to the wiki, making your ruler a general gives a higher death chance and lower life expectancy, even if he's not assigned to an army. Apparently this higher chance starts 5 years after turning him into a general
This used to be true, but was recently fixed. It used to calculate death chances for the ruler and the ruler-general as two separate entities, hence why your ruler had a lower life expectancy if they were a general.
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IIRC having a leader drilling an army also increases chances of death. So, even at low maintenance I usually have a 1 stack with my ruler attached to it drill.
Not sure how effective it is, but in theory it should triple the chance of death, no?
1 roll for being your monarch, 1 roll for being a general and 1 roll for drilling an army.
Not sure how effective it is, but in theory it should triple the chance of death, no?
1 roll for being your monarch, 1 roll for being a general and 1 roll for drilling an army.
Only twice. The extra roll for being a general has been removed. Can't recall which it was, but I think it was either Leviathan or Origins.
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Are we 100% sure about that? People who don't have ruler-generals assigned to an army at all still seem to have their elven rulers die way earlier than would normally be possible in Anbennar, which does not happen if you do not make them a general. Unless Anbennar explicitly blocked that update so people could still try to kill bad rulers this way? I could believe this is a mod-intended exception, but given long history of pdox patch vs game interaction weirdness I could also believe otherwise.
I just double-checked, and it turns out it was even earlier than I remembered. Rulers suffering double death chance was removed all the way back in 2019. Dev diary here. Time flies during a pandemic, apparently.
Interesting. I know cultures that are long-lived normally can't make it so for advisers. Might be some general interaction specific to the mod.
It could also be that in the code that "anchors" the general to the monarch, something trips up the mod and resets the monarch age checks to default - either way, I haven't noticed any shorter-lived monarchs since it was implemented either, unless I'm actively pursuing it by drilling or using them in war, so anecdotally, it seems to be working.
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So should you just always make your ruler a general to see how good they are?
I'd say "yes", but I've done that in the past and have a bad tendency to lose track of which general is in which stack and accidentally commit my good rulers to sieges, so y'know. But there's no mechanical reason to not keep them on the roster.
Except when they used to bug out and not go away from the leader list, taking up a slot instead
I honestly don't remember if they fixed that bug already or not, but IRC they did. That semi-joke aside, you are right of course.