Can generals be killed?

[1stvermont]

Hi, I have thought i had captured or killed enemy generals but they seem to keep reappearing. So I was wondering can you kill a enemy general?


thanks.

[Cardinal Ape]

Yes. They can either be killed or injured.

Some generals that did die during the war have a higher chance to be killed.

Three star generals are immune to death, I think..

[FightingBuckeye]

I never knew that generals who died in the war had a higher chance in the game of dying. But I'm pretty sure 1*s have the highest chance of dying, 2*s have a lower chance of dying, and as Ape said 3*s are supposed to be immune. And I think I've only ever had one or two 2*s die and a bunch of 1*s, but I can't ever recall ever losing a 3*

Your generals can also become injured, usually when their unit is subjected to a meat grinder. When injured they'll be locked at a nearby region for some amount of time recovering before you can use them again.

[DrPostman]

I had N.B. Forrest die on me as a 3 star. It was very disappointed to lose him.

[FightingBuckeye]

I had N.B. Forrest die on me as a 3 star. It was very disappointed to lose him.

Ouch, yeah that would hurt. Especially if he were the only 3* in the area and was commanding an army that would've disintegrated on his death. I've never had Forrest as a 3* as I always feared he'd lose either/both stats or traits. How does he look as a 3*?

[Cardinal Ape]

I had N.B. Forrest die on me as a 3 star. It was very disappointed to lose him.

I don't see Forrest as being promotable to 3*. Are you sure that happened to you in CW2 and not in CW1? Forrest could be promoted to 3* in the first game if I remember right.

[DrPostman]

It might have been in a previous version or in Beta. He was in command of a corps.

[BattleVonWar]

I have lost Generals during combat and it turned a fight that was likely going to be a stalemate or my victory. There must be a General Dice Roll

[Rod Smart]

If you're going into a meat grinder, like an army sized, three corps, 10 division battle for Culpepper, keep an extra general in the stack. Its rare that generals die, but when you have 15 generals being subjected to a death die roll, someone is going to get shot.


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Someone had some glitch where US Grant was captured, and turned into a southern general. I've never seen that, and that seems really weird, so I don't think that was working as designed.

[Gray Fox]

Here's the Wiki rule description:

http://www.ageod.net/agewiki/Leader_death_and_recovery_parameters

[havi]

i had Lee toasted my resent pbem and it was his first fight to

[Papa Thomas]

While playing CW2 v1.05 last week I had 3 star general U.S. Grant get killed in a battle. It was a real meat grinder battle, so it can happen, its just unlikely.

[Cardinal Ape]

I must be reading the file wrong then.

cbtLdrRecovBaseRank3Perc = 100

I thought it meant that rank 3 leaders have a 100% chance to not die if they sustain a hit in combat. Hmmm, now I am confused.

[BattleVonWar]

I have never seen a *** die in game so far. I have ran battle results about 50 times to see what cannon/terrain and unit consistency does.

[bobbitt01]

I had both Lee and Jackson die in the same "meat grinder" battle as three star leaders. I had never seen that before and I guess I just extremely unlucky.