Becoming loyal

[fmurciap]

I seem to have detected a way to cope with the mission 'Get loyal troops' when your ruler is an incapable 0.5 martial general. Give him any number of units but always use them combined with other army with a high martial general to assure victory. IIRC the troops will become loyal to their nominal general, not the actual commander in the field. Am I right?

 

[Cheexsta]

Yep, I've been advocating exactly this strategy for quite a while and it works perfectly. The hardest part, for smaller countries at least, is in finding the numbers to split your army like that, since you definitely want your good general leading more than just a couple thousand men.

 

[Olaus Petrus]

It always amuses me when totally incompetent characters want to be something great. Luckily in republics you don't have to tolerate totally incompetent rulers for more than couple of years, but in monarchies it's bit harder to get rid of them once they gain power.