This is such a great mod/game. Huzzah to the creators.
When you have the option to have two or more armies attacking or besieging a target, it gives you the option of setting the other army to be AI controlled, or to be AI controlled but you have a general control over the whole unit. This is to make it easier to control multiple armies and I understand that fact.
I am not entirely sure about this...
When your second army has a general, if I decide to manoeuvre the soldiers with my own so I am in complete control (stops stupid generals deciding they want to die) will that general still get special traits if they are not in control of the army themselves, or will it only be the one general that is in the first army that will only get the special traits earned after the battle?
Also the same situation but with a commander (normal unit acts as general) in charge of the second army, will he have a better chance of becoming a general (if he proves himself in battle).
I often send an army in with no general as I presume that this is the best way for commanders to become generals, when I am in need of more generals. Is this correct. I have noticed that I can train generals by build a mounted unit, this is not true for all mods across the Total war and would like to know if anyone can help.