Ensuring I have enough generals with high martial when playing as Rome

[Antiochus_Soter]

I am trying to make sure I have enough generals with high martial when playing as Rome. Or better said, I want to monitor each young charcater that grows up with a martial of 8 and above and ensure that they can be used as early as possible.

The quickest career path towards a general that I know of is the construction technology guy ( I think he is called Praetor or Propraetor). But that is only available to 27 year old s and up I think. What are the other career paths to become generals?

I think provincial governor is one right? So i could make my young guys with high martial governors and then swap them over to generals once their governorship term is over. Are there any other standard techniques for ensuring I can make these guys generals at the earliest possible age?

 

[knul]

In a republic, to become a general one must be either and ex-ruler, an ex-censor or an ex-civiv tech (praetor). Being a governour is not a way to become general.

Too bad, but a praetor requires at least age 35, not 27.

However, you could make a character a religious tech (pontifex maximus) at age 25 and then censor at age 27 and give him generalship at age 29.

(all this data I got from my EU Rome data files).

So in a republic, you cannot get very young generals.

 

[Cheexsta]

What knul said. See the Unofficial Strategy Guide for details.

 

[fmurciap]

however, you could make a character a religious tech (pontifex maximus) at age 25 and then censor at age 27 and give him generalship at age 29.

IIRC, you can speed up the process a little. You can appoint the PM as censor after a year, and also give command to the censor after another year. You will get a loyalty penalty, though, only partially compensated by the loyalty boost any character gets when appointed to office. The final result will be negative unless you are fulfilling the character ambition, but you need a general, don't you? TANSTAAFL

 

[Lord Rellik]

Or just wait for the senate to appoint you one. Sometimes you get lucky and they appoint a good general. Even if you dont like him you can resign him.