Couple of Questions

[Carthage General]

Hi all,

1-The night battle trait is very usefull,but only like 3 generals of mine have them.Is there anyway to get the night battle trait to my other commanders?I know if your a captian and you fight at night and win you get it but other then that, its pretty rare.

2-If i remember right, in the how to survive the first 15 turns guide,taking patavium triggers german hordes.Is there any other cities that trigger them or other factions to attack.Iv secured the northern borders but not in STRONG force,so im weary of attacking a city near germany....

3-Does a general have to be in a city or stationed in a fort to have a child?Beacuase if he has the night fighter trait AND takes after his father trait,I might get luckly with a night fighter.

4-Lastly,is there a list that someone might have made that lists all the traits and how to achieve them?

Thank you in advanced,and number 2 is pretty important.

[Ejergard]

Hi all,

1-The night battle trait is very usefull,but only like 3 generals of mine have them.Is there anyway to get the night battle trait to my other commanders?I know if your a captian and you fight at night and win you get it but other then that, its pretty rare.

2-If i remember right, in the how to survive the first 15 turns guide,taking patavium triggers german hordes.Is there any other cities that trigger them or other factions to attack.Iv secured the northern borders but not in STRONG force,so im weary of attacking a city near germany....

3-Does a general have to be in a city or stationed in a fort to have a child?Beacuase if he has the night fighter trait AND takes after his father trait,I might get luckly with a night fighter.

4-Lastly,is there a list that someone might have made that lists all the traits and how to achieve them?

Thank you in advanced,and number 2 is pretty important.

1.) When any general has 5 stars, he will be able to fight nightbattles although he may not have the actual trait. Winning a battle or a few at night might give that additional trait afterwards though.
2.) Some factions are set to superaggressive. Germania, Gaul, Carthage and Greece are such factions. Whenever you share a border with them, they will attack relentlessly. Some other factions may be too, but slips my mind right now.
3.) Your recruited generals won't have children at all, since they are hired and not part of your family. When they die, they're gone. However, sometimes you will get the fortune to adopt one of these, and if they marry they may have children. But it doesn't matter if they are in a town or not, they'll have kids anyhow to my knowledge.

Don't know about nr4, but maybe someone else does?
Good luck with your campaign

[Carthage General]

ok thank you!O and another question with units.How do you really earn exp on the battle field???I mean killing like thousands of soliders, or losing them and retraining? I never quite understood how it worked...

[Ejergard]

Two ways basically. Some buildings grant +exp to certain units, so if you retrain a unit with less experience than what is granted from these buildings, then that unit will be trained to the standard of that city. Second way is by fighting. As a unit gets more kills it's experience level will eventually increase. If you retrain a unit with a certain level of experience above what a city can offer, the whole unit will be retrained to full strength with the same experience level as when it is understrength.
The most "realistic" way to retrain your depleted cohorts and simulate the effect of raw recruits filling up vacant spots in an experienced unit, you should recruit new fresh cohorts and merge them with the experienced understrength ones. That way they will risk losing experience overall though.

Another thought I've had is if experience somehow is connected to specific soldiers in a cohort. Sometimes if you have 2 understrength cohort with different experience levels, you can merge them back and forth and get different experience levels for both cohorts different times. But on the other hand, it seems like when fighting, it is never these experienced soldiers that gets killed, because usually when a unit loses soldiers the experience level constantly increases.
Does anyone else know more about this?