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Semi-Lobster

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I'm watching a fascinating Australian series of documentaries on WWI and it's very interest how Ludendorff slowly went out of his mind after the continuous ineffective offensives and continual losses (the oddest was his reaction to the loss of his son). Then I remember the morose comments made by Turkish generals. This also happened in WWII in the Pacific, Eastern and certainly the Italian front to the various commanders who experienced both stunning victories and defeat after defeat. I wonder if leader traits have the ability to come and go with each general's experiences, which may also affect their stats. This actually reminds me of a more combat oriented version of the CK trait system. The state of mind of a leader is very important, it effects how he organises, rationalises and effectively use his forces. I hope a new system of traits are in HoI 2 will be implemented to represent this.
 

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Well, while that may be somewhat interesting, it may be more work than it's worth. And then, people might be a bit annoyed at having to worry about the mental well-being of their generals while they have to juggle fronts in Europe, Africa and Asia while controlling the naval and air wars.
 

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Well I guess any negative traits would only happen after continual losses, while consecutive victories would give them postive traits (along with expierence), it would take a while I guess for something signficant to happen, it took Ludendorff several years for his mental deterioration to show, but just looking at the confidence of Italian generals before and during their offensive into Egypt compared to 1943
 

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Well I guess any negative traits would only happen after continual losses, while consecutive victories would give them postive traits (along with expierence), it would take a while I guess for something signficant to happen, it took Ludendorff several years for his mental deterioration to show, but just looking at the confidence of Italian generals before and during their offensive into Egypt compared to 1943

Makes sense for these traits to be learnt, if you conducted a type of operation once, 2nd time should be better.

I take Gwalcmai's point also.