Ahhh the generals, they are numerous but not good for much!

[BossGnome]

In my 1805 scenario as France, I had just finished off Austria, when the brits decide to land a large army (for the brits) of about 70K troops in the north of France, accompanied by 2 generals. I bring the Grande Armée over and kick their butts, of course, and take everyone as POWS. Everyone that is...exept the generals. Why?? I now have 2 british generals sitting in France doing absolutely nothing, and who apparently do not desire to return home to england, just are content sitting their oogling good french girls? What do I do with those pesky guys?

[Reg Pither]

'Oogling' good French girls? [X(] The mind boggles as to what that could mean - maybe leering at their pictures on an internet search engine...?[;)]

Whenever the Brits do the same when I play as France, after a few months I usually get a message saying 'Beresford has been arrested in Ile de France' or somesuch. I then just shove them in prison in a garrison somewhere until a patch comes out giving us ransoming options.

[ericbabe]

British commanders do sometimes get stuck on the continent when their army is captured. There is a small chance they will be captured each turn they are in enemy territory.

[solops]

Yeah, I've had ex-captive, wandering Frenchy generals in the Near East after peace was made.

[Joram]

Ha! I was wondering at the wording of the topic. It's an ancient quote. I only recognized it because I've been playing a lot of RTW these past few weeks (as I await the patch for this game). Guess I'm going to have to play it some more so I can remember who said it (I want to say Lesander but don't think so).

[Naomi]

ORIGINAL: BossGnome

In my 1805 scenario as France, I had just finished off Austria, when the brits decide to land a large army (for the brits) of about 70K troops in the north of France, accompanied by 2 generals. I bring the Grande Armée over and kick their butts, of course, and take everyone as POWS. Everyone that is...exept the generals. Why?? I now have 2 british generals sitting in France doing absolutely nothing, and who apparently do not desire to return home to england, just are content sitting their oogling good french girls? What do I do with those pesky guys?

I had a saved file, where France unloaded (only) 4 Marshals to my England. Any idea about Nappy's motive? *(~,~)*

[BossGnome]

the guy who said the quote above was the satyrist Aristophanes. [;)] I also got it from RTW...