Leveling Generals? (Noticed since FOTS release)

**Babaganoush** · April 17, 2012, 04:21 AM

For easy general leveling, I used to do the usual, send generals side by side as reinforcements for the main stack, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Have they removed the equal experience per victory or have they just reduced it?

I don't know how I can get cheap commissioners anymore.

**eXistenZ** · April 17, 2012, 05:36 AM

yep i have noticed it too. they get 3 XP if they reinforce, instead of 10 like in SII. Its indeed a shame, which means you'll have to alternate if you attack in two stacks if you dont wanna end up with a level5 vs a level 2

**Slaists** · April 17, 2012, 08:27 AM

Stick your spare gens in fleets and send them to guard your trade routes. The gens will level up in no time

On VH campaign difficulty, I am forced to fight 15-20 naval skirmishes per turn... If you sure about your odds you can do naval autoresolves.

**DeMolay** · July 07, 2012, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Slaists

Stick your spare gens in fleets and send them to guard your trade routes. The gens will level up in no time

On VH campaign difficulty, I am forced to fight 15-20 naval skirmishes per turn... If you sure about your odds you can do naval autoresolves.

Exactly

My first general to reach 6 stars in FOTS was with Tosa , because he was in my fleet since turn 2 and fought countless battles , by around turn 100 he was 6 stars fully maxed

Another trick is to repress as many rebellions as possible but it's not as efficient as leading a fleet in hard or very hard

I found this new feature of nerfing the XP of reinforcing generals better , it means the human has to carefully manoeuvre his main army and pick his fight , also , since the human is usually much better in land battles , it somewhat evens the odds as the AI generally doesn't build armies as dangerous as the human player does until late game in FOTS

but on the other hand , i also noticed that agents and generals get xp faster now than the initial vanilla Shogun 2 which is also better IMHO

**grumph** · April 17, 2012, 10:19 AM

or just give them a OWN army to lead, not like its game breaking. or just put them in a strong fleet with ironclads and xp farm.

**MJWilliams** · April 18, 2012, 10:43 AM

They did reduce it, generals get barely any more XP for reinforcing as they do for sitting in the main stack now. Get an Ironclad and give it some heavy support, stick a general on it and he'll level up in no time. Also, when besieging, you can beat the enemy soundly when they sally out, then break siege, swap stacks or generals over and auto-resolve the remaining garrison. That way both generals get equal XP.

**Alexandru** · May 05, 2012, 12:01 AM

Generals in the main stack get only 1 exp point, unlike the 3exp points for reinforcing.

**Lazarus** · May 05, 2012, 06:47 AM

This isn't such a problem in FotS as it is in RotS or S2... It's crippling my play style >.>

**vallu751** · May 05, 2012, 10:42 AM

I like this way better. Splitting armies just to artificially increase exp gains was way too gamey for my tastes.

**eXistenZ** · May 05, 2012, 02:46 PM

i still out of habbit split off my secondary general, even though he barely wins 2xp with that

**Vragos** · July 07, 2012, 03:05 PM

According to my findings, this behaviour was an unintentional error in the scripts. I rewrote the script to be more generic, it's available for download as a mod.

**CTD_or_Bust** · July 10, 2012, 03:33 PM

Just here to +1 again Fleet Admirals. Naval battles are far more frequent and frequently far more one sided, giving you the perfect way to grind up generals.