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I was wondering if there was a way to make all generals traits random?

The real Lincoln or Davis didnt know which generals would turn out great and which would fail.

I was wondering if there was a button that could be pressed to make all generals traits random and more realistic in that we wouldnt have the advantage of knowing we should promote Lee to command the army or Grant to command the army, we would have to figure that out as time went on.

When you set up the game, at the top right of the setup page under the General Options heading.

The two options are Randomize Stats and Conceal Stats.

The "Randomize Stats" option does make all the generals' stats random, except for their chance of entering the game, their home state, and their turn at which they become available.

I'll mention here (because I'm expecting to get feedback on this) that the generals' turn to enter the game is based on the year which they made bde. general rank (or higher) plus some random number of half-months.  We did this because we found a list of years that generals were available, but that list didn't have months or dates in it, and frankly we didn't have the manpower to look up and enter each exact month of availability.