Generals, Generals Everywhere

[Gunnarr]

Fix it blizz!

 

[LarryLeica]

Holy Purple People Eaters... this explains alot. You have more than enough courtiers as it is usually, why not just make it possible to invite a specialised noble/lowborn to your court in the usual way rather than spam generals without warning? Makes no sense. You could have a button to invite a noble for each profession, with a weight of say 20% to the favoured skill and a 10% penalty to all the others, alognside a generic noble invite with no penalties.

 

[Melric]

I can't seem to find a general counselor that is not out leading his troops. Even when I combine my retinues, I can't seem to free up my high martial characters. My vassals seem to place those generals as the leaders of their troops. In other words, I can't use my marshal for anything.

 

[SirRobin]

I think I'll skip the DLC until they fix this. Right now it just gives some new Byzantine stuff and retinues.

Wait, so if we uncheck LoR does it turn off retinues? I would be sorely tempted to do that with how annoying all these martial 20 hanging around my court is getting.

instead of just inviting a general(which we could use for everything, like inviting a capable steward for some gold), make it a toggleable button hwne creating a retinue. this way you can get a capable new general if you i.e. are creating a new army and need 3 new leader but forget about them for the 20 etinues supporting them.

I like that idea. I think it might be better to add retinues as something that can be "granted," like baronies and counties. Since retinues are semi-permanent, unlike levies, wouldn't it be better to assign someone to lead it? Or maybe make it like the Council's appointing.

 

[Velorian]

They should make them act like mercenary bands, not assign them to any courts. These are lowborns, unless adopted by a noble they have no business as regular court members.

They could add a mercenary "court" for each independent realm, and then whenever new retinue leadership is required, it would assign one from the national pool and whenever more is needed they could be added here. Their average skills should also be way lower.
Anyways, this way you could invite them to your court if you liked them (or wanted to give a title out), and when they are all placed in the same location it would be easier to have an event delete them when there are too many.

 

[hannibal_barca]

My problem is that it makes leaders irrelevant. With the way these guys are generated you almost always have a super capable general to use. It's also made my court an utter mess. I don't even try to manage it anymore in my games.

This exactly. Damnit, I always regret getting these DLC's as soon as they come out. I alway end up setting it aside for the inevitable 3 week wait for it to be playable as it was intended