Max numbers of Ancillaries Characters??

**Gaius Flavius Constantius** · April 28, 2009, 02:27 AM

i jus wondering whays the maxinum numbers of ancillaries characters a fraction general can have??

**0oLucko0** · April 28, 2009, 03:05 AM

I believe its eight.

**Gaius Flavius Constantius** · April 28, 2009, 05:24 AM

Only eight its kinda little, hope its something like ten - twelwe ancillaries

**The Sloth** · April 29, 2009, 01:52 AM

It's eight.

**Gromovnik** · April 29, 2009, 03:59 AM

Is that hard coded?

**Brusilov** · April 29, 2009, 04:30 AM

Originally Posted by Pannonius

Is that hard coded?

If it wasn't then I am sure that some mod would have changed it by now....

**Squid** · April 29, 2009, 09:58 AM

Definitely hard coded.

**Ybbon** · April 30, 2009, 09:43 AM

How are they assigned? For example, I have a few mining engineers, are these always assigned to characters in cities with mines? I notice that some characters are assigned to governors and some to generals with obvious reason, but some aren't so apparent - chirugeons frequently seem to be assigned to governors when it might make more sense to be to generals?

On an unrelated question, is there any way to make diplomats follow a path? Say I want to send one up around the Baltic and down to Parthia finding every capital along the way, you have to guess where they are unless you happen to come across a road, it would be nice to be able to send them searching for capital cities? I suspect the answer is no, just curious.

**Andalus** · April 30, 2009, 10:08 AM

Yeah, you can't make diplomats do that. But once you've played a few campaigns you know where all the cities are anyway, and the AI rarely changes its capital.

As for ancillaries, there are a few triggers, and if they are fulfilled there is a random chance that the charaacter will get the ancillary. For instance, to get Intrepid Explorer, you need to be in foreign lands and have less than 15% of your movement points left.