How to use your monarch as a leader ?

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I've played a until around 1650 as England in the GC and I've still got to experience ever having my king as a military leader. Is there something special you must to do to activate him/her as a military leader or do they simply appear in a province just like the normal historical leaders ?

Cobos

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Only some monarchs can go onto the field and actually command their own forces. After all not _every_ monarch went out of his way to lead his men on the battlefield.


Poland for example has only about 4-5 'warrior' monarchs, who can lead armies.


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That still doesn't really explain my question. I saw for instance that Henry VII (i think, the monarch you have in 1492 as England) has a siege value of 1. How do I know if he is a warrior monarch ? If he isn't why does he have such excellent stats, when do you ever use those ? If he is how do I use him in the field ?

Cobos

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have you seen this stats in the Leaders file or in the Monarchs file ?

Only monarchs listed in the Leaders file can lead armies on the battle field.

And I think that Henri VII is not a leader ...



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But since as far as I've seen in the leaders.eng file there are noone with the category monarch and noone that sounds like a english king or queen from the names, so that means England does not even have ONE warrior monarch ??

Cobos

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Originally posted by Cobos:
But since as far as I've seen in the leaders.eng file there are noone with the category monarch and noone that sounds like a english king or queen from the names, so that means England does not even have ONE warrior monarch ??

Cobos

Had they anyone historicaly? I can not name any English monarch who lead his/hers troops in field during this time. [Cromwell was not a monarch]

 

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That of course might be a good point You are probably right there....



Cobos

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So in the case of monarchs with combat/siege values who are not in the leaders file, does that mean they have some effect on ALL of the country's forces? (i.e. does a monarch with a siege capability help all forces in sieging) If they have no effect, are they just listed for potential add-ons/patches?

 

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I guess it's just a mistake with the leaders file in the game.
I don't know about all the kings of England, but I'm sure William III (the dutch one) beat his father in law Jacobus in battle in I think it was 1688, before becoming king of England himself.
He should definitely be in the leader file.
Check with Doomdark whether he already included some in the leader project.

greetings, Oranje