Problem with military ranks

[CristianS]

I've recently donwloaded and installed this mod and I enjoyed it greatly. In many ways, it's much better than the vanilla version of the game.

However, I'm not so happy with how the new military ranks and loyalty system works. They seem to have no logic.

I just started a Byzantine campaign and nothing about military ranks works properly. For example, a general that won 2 battles while outnumbered stayed at the lowest rank (tourmarches; I hope I spelled it right), while at the same time a general that never left a settlement (and he wasn't governor there) advanced suddenly to the second rank (taxiarchis).

The new loyalty system is equally problematic. I have 3 or 4 generals that stayed with the Emperor in the same settlement or stack for something like 10-15 turns and received the "unwatched by king" trait. It's absurd, since they were right near him the whole time. But another general, who only stayed with the emperor for 1 turn, got the "has the king's attention" trait and has kept it since, although he's now in his 10th year governing the farthest town in the empire.

I'd really need some help here, as the whole system is starting to be irritating, and some other traits seem to be affected too (for example, no one gets the "religious" trait for building churches any more).

Thanks in advance for any suggestion!

[acegogo]

I've recently donwloaded and installed this mod and I enjoyed it greatly. In many ways, it's much better than the vanilla version of the game.

However, I'm not so happy with how the new military ranks and loyalty system works. They seem to have no logic.

I just started a Byzantine campaign and nothing about military ranks works properly. For example, a general that won 2 battles while outnumbered stayed at the lowest rank (tourmarches; I hope I spelled it right), while at the same time a general that never left a settlement (and he wasn't governor there) advanced suddenly to the second rank (taxiarchis).

The new loyalty system is equally problematic. I have 3 or 4 generals that stayed with the Emperor in the same settlement or stack for something like 10-15 turns and received the "unwatched by king" trait. It's absurd, since they were right near him the whole time. But another general, who only stayed with the emperor for 1 turn, got the "has the king's attention" trait and has kept it since, although he's now in his 10th year governing the farthest town in the empire.

I'd really need some help here, as the whole system is starting to be irritating, and some other traits seem to be affected too (for example, no one gets the "religious" trait for building churches any more).

Thanks in advance for any suggestion!

the unwatched by king trait is recovered at the capital and not by beign with the king.

chance is also a factor here , so consider your self lucky with that general being very loyal and so far away and no bad traits....

[CristianS]

Thanks for the info!
Regarding the military ranks, is there a way to turn them off?

[acegogo]

i´m afraid not, it´s an integral part for the trait system.

[CristianS]

i´m afraid not, it´s an integral part for the trait system.

This is it then. Hopefully I'll find some logic behind the system. Thanks for clearing thing up!

[acegogo]

no problem

[Hanno the Navigator]

Think of it this way: "unwatched by king" means "hungry for power". Of course this can happen even if a governor is physically close to the king... it just means that the kind is not paying attention to his schemes!