Frequency of drilling accidents?

[Athan.]

I've had four generals die in the past 15-20ish years during drilling, all from "drilling accidents." Is that normal, or am I just having a bad RNG run? Anyone else experiencing this?

I saw one other post claiming the same thing, but it was under a topic about rulers dying young, which I'm not experiencing, hence the separate topic.

(I don't have a savegame from before the incidents, since it's an ironman run.)

 

[YuriiH]

IMHO it's RNG
Generals live around 10-15 years, so you've experienced just a little decrease in their lifetime.

 

[Dakka]

Clearly your generals are jerks and are getting fragged. Stop promoting assholes and you won't have that issue

 

[IrishGirl]

No. But I did have the "[Monarch]'s Reputation Tarnished!" event fire for my last three rulers.

At this point, I'm assuming the rumors are true ...

 

[Ulfing]

It used to be that generals lived for a minimum of 5 years after rolling, at which point the death chance goes from 0% to 4% if assigned, about 14%ish if in a battle, and goes up from there.

So, any idea if they all lived a minimum of 5 years?

Don't know if drilling is having a direct impact on death chance, but I'm more inclined to think that when its RNGing for a death reason, if the general is currently drilling it will just blame that 100% of the time making it seem like a bigger issue, because its the same reason over and over.

 

[Zohtun]

It used to be that generals lived for a minimum of 5 years after rolling, at which point the death chance goes from 0% to 4% if assigned, about 14%ish if in a battle, and goes up from there.

So, any idea if they all lived a minimum of 5 years?

Don't know if drilling is having a direct impact on death chance, but I'm more inclined to think that when its RNGing for a death reason, if the general is currently drilling it will just blame that 100% of the time making it seem like a bigger issue, because its the same reason over and over.

Personally I think that is it. It's just the game rolling the general to die and then giving a reason based on their actions at the time.

I've lost dozens of generals to the perils of walking between two provinces. At this point I'm convinced those little lines on the map are actually secretly garrottes.

 

[Ulfing]

Before drilling I used to unassign them between wars, just to lower the death chance by a few %. But now with drilling, yeah. Most generals seem to die quick, but then you get those few epic ones who last for decades - just like with rulers TBF.

 

[Parapluman]

Yeah I noticed this too. I do not know what the MTTH is for these accidents, but as it stands these do feel a bit too frequent.