How to make a good general and a good administrator

[canadian]

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if you could give me some recommendations and maybe some of your personal stories on how you make your family members either great generals or able administrators. This is one aspect of TW that I've always understood but not to a great extent

Thanks

[PapaRosario]

Well I don't go to great lengths to do this. But in general, I try to give my governors high chivalry and my generals high dread. Chivalry is great for the population growth and dread is great for making the enemy run away.

So I try to sack/execute with generals and occupy, release, and possibly join crusades with the ones that I want to make governors.

[Ferdiad]

I never tax high, always build as much as I can, put academically minded FM's in city's, military minded ones with armies. Watch out for high level taverns as well.

[Delvecchio1975]

Watch out for high level taverns as well.

why is this again?

[PapaRosario]

why is this again?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Trigger luxurious_lifestyle_inns
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

Condition EndedInSettlement
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
and SettlementBuildingExists >= coaching_house
and not Trait Upright > 0
and not Trait Prim > 0

Affects Aesthetic 1 Chance 3
Affects Drink 1 Chance 3
Affects ExpensiveTastes 1 Chance 3
Affects Gambling 1 Chance 2
Affects Girls 1 Chance 2
;------------------------------------------
Trigger luxurious_lifestyle4
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

Condition EndedInSettlement
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
and SettlementBuildingExists = pleasure_palace
and not Trait Upright > 0
and not Trait Prim > 0

Affects Aesthetic 1 Chance 5
Affects Epicurean 1 Chance 5
Affects ExpensiveTastes 1 Chance 5
Affects Gambling 1 Chance 3
Affects Girls 1 Chance 10

And for princesses.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Trigger sitting_around_town_vnv_trigger2
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

Condition EndedInSettlement
and Treasury > 25000
and AgentType = princess
and SettlementBuildingExists >= pleasure_palace
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100

Affects DykeWoman 1 Chance 10
;------------------------------------------
Trigger sitting_around_town_vnv_trigger4
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

Condition EndedInSettlement
and AgentType = princess
and SettlementBuildingExists >= inn
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100

Affects UnchasteWoman 1 Chance 5

[k/t]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386432 - trait guide
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=87740 - trait guide for generals by kobal2fr
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...fect-statesman. - trait guide for governors

I forget if that's for Vanilla or not, but it should still be of some use.

[canadian]

Thanks for the links and the advice guys, think I'm starting to get the hang of this. My generals are usually getting good with taxes

[Chandr]

About high level taverns... I build one in the city with mason guild. And train there a special kind of governors - for population boost

[Paragon]

Any more buildings can give negative traits?

[MagicCuboid]

Any more buildings can give negative traits?

Well technically schools and universities have chances for a few negative traits, but they're far outweighed by the positive ones.

[Ferdiad]

None that I can think of off the top of my head.

[k/t]

How about those "Likes Art" traits that give -Command and -something else?