How many promotions have you gotten in a single commander?

[SupremacyKing2]

I've fought plenty of wars in civ7 but maybe I am just not a warmonger enough. I have gotten maybe 6-7 promotions max in one of my army commanders. I think I got one commendation once. I have never come close to getting all the promotions in a single commander. Is that even possible? How many promotions have you gotten in a single commander?

 

[tedhebert]

I've fought plenty of wars in civ7 but maybe I am just not a warmonger enough. I have gotten maybe 6-7 promotions max in one of my army commanders. I think I got one commendation once. I have never come close to getting all the promotions in a single commander. Is that even possible? How many promotions have you gotten in a single commander?

I’m pretty much like you… not a big warmonger, I’ve gotten to 2 commendations only once I think and I’m usually at one commander with 6/8 and all other commanders with 0/1… sometimes I don’t even make it to 3/4 on my first commander.

Thing is war is very present in antiquity, you rarely can avoid it. But in explo and modern, it’s extremely easy to breeze through without a single war… all you have to do is build up a large enough army and not take any ideology.

Anyways, I’m very far from getting those accomplishment challenges about commanders… not even close

 

[wilcoxchar]

The most I've gotten is 8 on a single commander, but I've been able to finish a tree and get a commendation on 3 commanders in a single game (both were a Trung Trac game). I think it's intentional that you can't get every promotion on a commander during one game, so it makes you make a strategic decision of which promotions to choose. Considering one of the foundation challenges is for maxing out three trees on one commander, that's probably the intended max for what you're able to do.

 

[Siptah]

I have played a few games with a pretty much constant warfare, and in these I got quite a lot of promotions. I used leaders and civs that give free promotions as well, as I was going for the promotion challenges. I got the one that requires three maxed out trees on one commander, so apparently, I had a level 18 commander in that game. I remember that it was quite painful to get there though, but don't remember which leader/civ combo I used, nor whether it was always full blown war or also pillaging / CS harassment to get there.

I usually fight at least one war per era though, even if playing "peaceful" or "friendly". I seem to get attacked in most games anyway. So, it feels normal to have 2 reasonably good commanders (= 1 commendation in the end, usually +5 CS), but I don't think these two commanders usually get higher than level 6-8.

Maybe of interest to some: for the challenges that require to max out trees, you can also have naval and air commanders, which have less points per tree. I think especially naval commanders are very easy to level up, and I got the challenge that requires three commanders with two maxed out trees with 2 naval commander next to my "main" land commander.

 

[uppi]

I had Trung Nhi with 16 promotions and an army commander in a Xerxes games with also 16 promotions in addition to 4 commendations. 5 commendations on an army commander seems possible, if you really focus on it. Maxing out all 30 (or even 36 for Trung Nhi) promotions seems unrealistic. Maybe on slower game speed as I only play Standard?

I tend to have two good commanders with at least two commendations, maybe two or three decent commanders with Order and then (depending on resources) some additional commanders who only have the first assault promotion (if even that) and are mostly there to ferry troops around.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

Thing is war is very present in antiquity, you rarely can avoid it. But in explo and modern, it’s extremely easy to breeze through without a single war… all you have to do is build up a large enough army and not take any ideology.

Same. I will usually fight a war in Antiquity to win military legacy points and expand my empire to a good size. This helps set my civ up for success later on. But I stay out of most wars in Exploration and Modern. Part of the issue is that the military legacy in the Exploration Age only gives you points for settling or conquering in the distant lands. So wars on your home continent don't reward you with any legacy points. Depending on the map, conquering distant lands can be tedious. I will settle on a few islands with treasure resources for the economic legacy but I rarely bother conquering civs on the distant lands continent. And yeah, in the Modern Age, I usually avoid taking an ideology so I can stay out of wars and just cruise to victory.