将领 （陆军将领和海军将领）是领导陆军或海军的人物。他们根据他们的背景、个性给军队带来了优势或者劣势。无领导的军队比有领导的军队战斗力更差。
每个将领在创造时都会被随机分配一个背景和一个人格。这些特征适用于将领被指派到的任何军队或舰队。特质会影响以下方面：
- 组织度：单位组织度的百分比修正。
- 士气：单位士气的百分比修正。士气会增加单位的组织度恢复速度。
- 进攻：在单位进攻时改变骰子点数。
- 防御：在单位防御时改变骰子点数。
- 侦察：改变侦察值（每个单位？）。侦察可以增加占领速度，减少敌方的战壕修正。
- 速度：单位速度的百分比修正。
- 经验：单位获得经验的百分比修正。
- 可靠：改变士兵人群的斗争性。
除此之外，将领还有自己的威望（头像左侧的黄色槽），通过战斗和经验可以增加。注意不要和国家的威望混淆。将领的威望可以增加士气和组织度，在工具提示中有详细介绍。
Recruitment
The percentage of the POP type 
officers of the total population affect how many leadership points a nation gets pr. month. The cap is 3 leadership points pr. month, which is achieved if 0.2% of the population is officers.
When a nation has 20 leadership points it can recruit a general or admiral. The westernization reform 'Officer training' also gives a positive modifier to leadership points.
The recruitment and/or assignment can either be controlled manually or be automated.
Managing leaders
Generals and admirals can be assigned manually through each stack, or it can be assigned to be done automatically in the military tab. When done automatically leaders will be assigned at random. If it is left to be done automatically, one can choose leaders that should not be used to sort out the really bad ones.
This can be done for both admirals and generals independent of each other.
Leaderless units
Leaderless units have the "No Background" and "No Personality" traits, which give the following penalties:
- Attack −2
- Defense −2
- Morale −20%
- Organization −20%
- Speed −10%
- Experience −50%
Therefore it is almost never a good idea not to have an army without a leader, even though they have very bad traits.
Trait effects
Background
| Name | Org | Morale | Attack | Defence | Recon | Speed | Experience | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventurer | +1 | −2% | ||||||
| Amateur | −1 | −25% | ||||||
| Aristocrat | +10% | |||||||
| Armchair General | +10% | |||||||
| Artillerist | +10% | +1 | +2% | |||||
| Bootlicker | +1 | +2% | ||||||
| Brownnoser | +1 | +1% | ||||||
| Bureaucrat Speed | +15% | |||||||
| Butcher | −5% | |||||||
| Cartographer | +40% | |||||||
| Cavalry School | +2 | |||||||
| Clueless | −70% | +1 | ||||||
| Colonial B | −5% | −2 | +10% | |||||
| Corrupt | −10% | −20% | ||||||
| Cursed Luck | −40% | +2 | +2 | |||||
| Debutante | −4% | |||||||
| Diplomat | −5% | |||||||
| Disgraced | +5% | |||||||
| Drillmaster | +20% | |||||||
| Eccentric Genius | −5% | +2 | ||||||
| Elderly | +4% | |||||||
| Engineer | +5% | |||||||
| Expert Raider | +2 | |||||||
| Exranker | −10% | |||||||
| Generals Aide | +1 | |||||||
| Gifted Administrator | +15% | +4% | ||||||
| Hated | −20% | +1 | +1 | |||||
| Immoral | −10% | −4% | ||||||
| Incompetent | −3% | |||||||
| Innovative Tactician | +1 | |||||||
| Madman | −10% | |||||||
| Megalomaniac | −2 | |||||||
| Natural Born Leader | +10% | +1 | 0.05 | |||||
| No Background | −20% | −20% | −2 | −2 | −10% | −50% | ||
| Old School | +20% | +1 | −2 | |||||
| Pawn | +5% | |||||||
| Poet | +20% | −1 | ||||||
| Politician | −10% | +10% | ||||||
| Powerful Friends | −10% | +2% | ||||||
| Priest | +10% | |||||||
| Professor | +20% | −1 | −1 | |||||
| Rising Star | +15% | |||||||
| Sad Sack | −2 | |||||||
| School Of Defense | +3 | |||||||
| School Of Firepower | +30% | +1 | ||||||
| School Of Offense | +10% | +1 | +10% | |||||
| School Of The Bayonet | +2 | +1 | +10% | |||||
| Spoiled | +2 | |||||||
| Sucker | −1 | |||||||
| Sycophant | +50% | |||||||
| Toady | −5% | +10% | +1 | −10% | ||||
| Uncommonly Young | +1 | +1 | ||||||
| Unfit | −20% | −2 | ||||||
| Unqualified | −5% | −10% | ||||||
| War College | +1 | |||||||
| Warmonger | −20% | +10% | ||||||
| Womanizer | +20% | −2% | ||||||
| Yesman | −10% | +1% |
Personality
| Name | Org | Morale | Attack | Defence | Recon | Speed | Experience | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Able | +5% | |||||||
| Active P | +5% | |||||||
| Aggressive | +1 | |||||||
| Arrogant | −5% | |||||||
| Au Fait | +15% | +3 | ||||||
| Audacious | +2 | +2 | +10% | |||||
| Aweless | +5% | |||||||
| Balanced P | +1 | |||||||
| Ballsy | +5% | +10% | ||||||
| Bastard | −30% | −1 | −3% | |||||
| Bigoted | −4% | |||||||
| Bold | +10% | +1 | +5% | |||||
| Brash | −5% | +10% | +1 | −10% | ||||
| Brilliant | +15% | |||||||
| Brutish | +1 | −2% | ||||||
| Calm | −1 | |||||||
| Careful | −5% | |||||||
| Careless | −2% | |||||||
| Cautious | +3 | −25% | ||||||
| Charismatic | +20% | +2% | ||||||
| Chickenhearted | −20% | −2 | −20% | |||||
| Chivalrous | +20% | +2 | ||||||
| Choleric | −5% | +1 | ||||||
| Clever | +5% | 0.25 | ||||||
| Competent | +10% | |||||||
| Confident | +3% | |||||||
| Coolminded | +2 | |||||||
| Coward | −30% | −20% | −3% | |||||
| Craven | −40% | −30% | −4% | |||||
| Daring | +3 | |||||||
| Dauntless | +4% | |||||||
| Deeply Religious | +20% | −1 | −1 | |||||
| Defiant | +20% | +3 | ||||||
| Diplomatic | +15% | |||||||
| Disciplined | +2 | |||||||
| Disorderly | −2% | |||||||
| Doughty | +1% | |||||||
| Earnest | +10% | |||||||
| Efficient | +10% | +2 | ||||||
| Expert | +15% | |||||||
| Fanatic | −15% | +4% | ||||||
| Gallant | +20% | |||||||
| Glory Hound | −10% | +10% | ||||||
| Gutsy | +1 | |||||||
| Harsh | −20% | +1 | +1 | |||||
| Hellbent | +40% | |||||||
| Heroic | +30% | |||||||
| Imperious | +20% | +1 | −2 | |||||
| Impetuous | -5% | -2 | +10% | |||||
| Implacable | −60% | +3 | +3 | |||||
| Impulsive | −20% | +10% | ||||||
| Incapable | −20% | −3% | ||||||
| Indifferent | −5% | |||||||
| Inefficient | −3 | |||||||
| Inept | −2 | |||||||
| Inspiring | +10% | |||||||
| Intelligent | +10% | |||||||
| Intuitive | +10% | +20% | ||||||
| Irate | +1 | |||||||
| Keen | +5% | 0.15 | ||||||
| Lackluster | −15% | |||||||
| Lilylivered | −30% | −3 | −30% | |||||
| Maladroit | −15% | |||||||
| Manful | +2% | |||||||
| Mediocre | −10% | |||||||
| Merciless | −40% | +2 | +2 | |||||
| Meticulous | −10% | |||||||
| No Personality | ||||||||
| Openminded | +10% | +4% | ||||||
| Persistant | +15% | |||||||
| Perverse | −40% | −4% | ||||||
| Pisspoor | −30% | −3 | ||||||
| Polite | +5% | |||||||
| Pusillanimous | −20% | −10% | −2% | |||||
| Relentless | +2 | |||||||
| Reserved | −2 | |||||||
| Resolute | +50% | +2 | ||||||
| Resourceful | +1 | +2% | ||||||
| Romantic | +50% | |||||||
| Scared | −10% | −1 | −1% | |||||
| Sharp | +5% | 0.05 | ||||||
| Shirker | −20% | −1 | −2% | |||||
| Shrinking Violet | −50% | −5% | ||||||
| Skilled | +5% | +1 | ||||||
| Smart | +5% | |||||||
| Soft | −2 | |||||||
| Soldierly | +1 | |||||||
| Spineless | −20% | −2 | ||||||
| Spirited | +2 | |||||||
| Stalwart | +1 | +1 | ||||||
| Steadfast | +2 | |||||||
| Stout | +10% | +1 | +2% | |||||
| Stouthearted | +1 | |||||||
| Strange | −20% | −2% | ||||||
| Tactful | +10% | |||||||
| Timid | −10% | −1 | −10% | |||||
| Undisciplined | −10% | −1% | ||||||
| Unflinching | +3 | |||||||
| Unmanly | −30% | −3 | ||||||
| Unruly | −1% | |||||||
| Unsound | −10% | −1% | ||||||
| Vainglorious | −10% | |||||||
| Vicious | −20% | +2 | ||||||
| Wrathful | +2 | |||||||
| Wretched | −20% | −2 | ||||||
| Yellow | −40% | −4 |