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LiamRiordan

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As with every war, military, sport or work environment, there will always be heroes somewhere in the world in their field, no matter what. I wonder, with the new ability to create blank units and brigades, would Heroes ever be a logical or applicable aspect?

I have toyed with the idea of creating random 'hero' events in times of war under certain conditions e.g. "Vice Admiral Cunningham proved his superior tactical prowess against the Royalist Canadian Navy against our Republican Navy today with the destruction of two Canadian Aircraft Carriers and three Battleships. For the Canadians to recover from this loss would be criminal. Let us look to Cunningham to lead us to victory on the seas!" This is in the KR universe btw. I've never been sure how to implement this by the way. But the idea of flavour battle events really does tickle my fancy.

Back on topic, would it be possible or warranted that you could add a 'hero' brigade or attachment to a certain division/wing and they gain morale and minor combat bonuses? Hmm, a larger scale extension I suppose is letting a 'hero' into the government. I don't know.

Thoughts?
 

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Already represented with high skilled generals, surely
 

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Sometimes having a heroic captain or fellow soldier in your formation can really boost your confidence.
But why would you represent this individual soldier at the brigade level?
 

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Maybe not one individual soldier, but some skilled soldiers in one unit. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdverband_44

Maybe possible with a decision, in which you can decide that you want to group your best soldiers together in one unit (means: get an unbuildable brigade with very high values) and as a drawback lose minimal values on every other unit of a special kind, because they lose their best soldiers.

Would be a bit fantasy-esque ;-)