Can Characters Serve as General and Part of Court at same time?

[bubbleman833]

I'm able to appoint characters that are in the field as generals to my court as part of the government or as an administrator. But lately I cant tell if this is intentional or a bug because for some reason I'm not able to appoint someone who is part of my court as a General. When I try to recruit one into an army there tab is greyed out with a pop up that states the character cant serve as general because there appointed at court.

Why is that?

[Numenor]

You can have generals and still be part of your court. The only thing you can't do is send them out on assignment and do something else. For instance your Chancellor or Administrator can still be out in the field fighting all they want. But that guy you sent on assignment? Nope.

I think its pretty stupid that characters out on assignment can't be part of your court / council. While your court / council members can go out and on campaign and still be perfectly fine. I would imagine its a lot harder to be chancellor and improve 15% peasantry income faction-wide while on campaign in foreign lands then sitting in the capital to collect 50% more peasantry tax from one commandry lol.

Creative Assembly Logic™

[UnfriendlyFire]

One benefit of not using administrators as army generals is that they join the commandery capital garrison with their entire retinue. Say you have a general with six elite units and make him an admin, instead of having him as a general he can chill in court and provide the city with much needed soldiers. With military upgrades the city has 2 full stacks and with an admin with six units that city has a fully stacked garrison.

Sidenote: I think even court generals (chancellors etc) can do assignments, but you can't promote any characters to court positions while they are doing assignments.

[Numenor]

Originally posted by UnfriendlyFire:

Sidenote: I think even court generals (chancellors etc) can do assignments, but you can't promote any characters to court positions while they are doing assignments.

Hmm that is good to know. Still its silly you can't promote someone on assignment even though they're in your capital commandry while doing whatever... while a general that might be half way across China fighting for his life in some desolate hellscape can be promoted to some court position and still do his court duties while out in the field.

Playing as Cao Cao I always make Dian Wei my first administrator, find it odd that he is balls deep into enemy territory murdering hundreds of enemy soldiers and still manages to administrates Chen, or Cao Ang managing to collect 15% more taxes from half of China while doing them same. While some like level 6-8 character can't be bothered to get promoted while at home collecting taxes while complaining about wanting a higher office.

[bubbleman833]

Originally posted by Numenor:

You can have generals and still be part of your court. The only thing you can't do is send them out on assignment and do something else. For instance your Chancellor or Administrator can still be out in the field fighting all they want. But that guy you sent on assignment? Nope.

I think its pretty stupid that characters out on assignment can't be part of your court / council. While your court / council members can go out and on campaign and still be perfectly fine. I would imagine its a lot harder to be chancellor and improve 15% peasantry income faction-wide while on campaign in foreign lands then sitting in the capital to collect 50% more peasantry tax from one commandry lol.

Creative Assembly Logic™

The problem is not just characters attached to do something for a province, its also characters whose only assignment is a court position such a Chancellor.

[Numenor]

Originally posted by bubbleman833:

Originally posted by Numenor:

You can have generals and still be part of your court. The only thing you can't do is send them out on assignment and do something else. For instance your Chancellor or Administrator can still be out in the field fighting all they want. But that guy you sent on assignment? Nope.

I think its pretty stupid that characters out on assignment can't be part of your court / council. While your court / council members can go out and on campaign and still be perfectly fine. I would imagine its a lot harder to be chancellor and improve 15% peasantry income faction-wide while on campaign in foreign lands then sitting in the capital to collect 50% more peasantry tax from one commandry lol.

Creative Assembly Logic™

The problem is not just characters attached to do something for a province, its also characters whose only assignment is a court position such a Chancellor.

I don't know then, cause I have made my generals chancellor / administrator while they were out on the field... I have not tried to do the vice versa, where I try to deploy them after promoting them.

[UnfriendlyFire]

Originally posted by Numenor:

Originally posted by bubbleman833:

The problem is not just characters attached to do something for a province, its also characters whose only assignment is a court position such a Chancellor.

I don't know then, cause I have made my generals chancellor / administrator while they were out on the field... I have not tried to do the vice versa, where I try to deploy them after promoting them.

You can deploy them as field generals after assigning them their new shiny positions. No problems there. They are not stuck in court forever (though it would be more logical if they were stuck and worked within the bureaucracy, but that would be kind of wasteful from a gameplay perspective since there's not much of an impactful way to manage your clerks and working on reforms). Right now, court positions are just some minimal buffs to the faction and a way to satisfy the character's...satisfaction, I guess. It's a neat concept that could be expanded upon.

Just note that administrators acting as armies will not provide their commandery with additional garrison troops.