Most Great Generals you've had in a game?

[Bast]

I just got 8 in a normal speed game. That's my best so far. Just wondering what everyone else has had.

 

[Turquoiside]

2 I kmow pathetic.

 

[CMKMStephens]

I've had like 10 great generals ravaging entire enemy civilizations in marathon games.

 

[Stoney the I]

played a huge marathon monarch game with 18 civs a while back and won that on conquest. game took 4 evenings.

since i played as romans i got a LOT of generals.

20+ at least, but i dont know the exact figure.

 

[FuRRie]

I mostly get like 2-5, depends on how quick and how aggressive I play.

 

[Gumbolt]

I think you need to play huge maps with 11+ civs to get a decent amount. Helps being imperialist too. I can get 5+ on a huge map. to be honest i never really count.

Playing the Romans or Persians certainly would be a huge boost.

Sometimes if you take out a stack of 40-60 units you can get 2+ great generals. Just teching ahead of the Ai till end of the game should ensure 1 GG.

I would guess anyone playing the big earth mod with 18 civs would be doing well on this front.

 

[say1988]

Imperialistic + great wall + always war = many GG.
Fight defensively and they will just multiply, with as many civs and as high of difficulty as you can survive it can be insane.
I once rigged a game that I had a few cities blocked by mountains, with a single forested hill that all enemies had to cross.
The biggest problem was getting finding civs so they could attack (scouting units got butchered by nearby civs).

 

[GooglyBoogly]

Managed to get 9 once in a normal map/game at standard speed with an imperialist and the great wall, oh that includes the free one from fascism.

Does stealing settled GG's count? In one game i managed to get 6 settled GG over 4 cities from another two civs.

 

[Quasar1011]

I just got 2 great generals in the same turn in my latest game: one in my capital, and one in my Heroic Epic city.

 

[tranmerefan]

I'm on my first game; I've had 4 so far. Produced a military academy with one of them

 

[thadian]

i have had 4 GG, settled them all in my coastal capital (von oranje) then with theoc, and vassalage... +12 EXP, and barracks/drydocks/airport...

At the point, i just quit the game because i wasn't having much fun.

Wanna know what is fun?

Building an island of barbarians with 20 barb GG units, and setting them up with the world-leading techs, WB them scotland yards, jails and security buildings to avoid espionage...

and the fun will really begin when their "super pirate ship destroyers" hit the board

 

[PimpyMicPimp]

I had over a dozen as JC on a huge, marathon game with only military victories (and diplo for flavour) turned on. I can't remeber the exact number, but it was quite large.

 

[Jewman]

yea im kind of a ruthless yet passive player. so i'll build and build until a neighbor gets angry and invades me. in which i turn into a war machine and burn him into the ground.
rarely vassalizing unless they got a random island city somewhere. or colonies eelsehwere.
by doing that i'll get about 8-12 gg which i will settle in one city.
commando tanks ftw!!!!

 

[Gumbolt]

Last game using imperialist leader clocked 11-12 great leaders before victory was mine. This was using a terra map.

 

[Game_Addy]

Well, in my OCC AW Marathon Diety game with certain...liberties, I've gotten about 6 or so pre-CoL, but in normal games, 3-4.

 

[Jimmyballz]

IMP w GW:

Settled 7 GG's (w Theocracy & Vassalage). also made a couple military acad w warlord or 2.

IDK the total number of GG's that game, but it was about in the high teens.

 

[SJN]

I just finished a game prince, russians, earth (huge), 18 civs, normal speed.

11 great generals. I just posted a screenshot illustrated narrative of this game in a top level thread called "Russia on Earth, 18 civs, almost cheating?"

Here's the great person screen at the end though...

Great People Report

I got really lucky in this game, though, I had lots of technologically backwards people attacking me. It was fun to see them attacking my mechanized infantry with cat's. Quick GG points!

I also conquered the Great Wall about half-way through.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I have 5 right now in an Epic Tectonics game, and only in 1700 AD. Funnily enough, I didn't get one GG until 1300 AD. Really good game, ended up founding a religion and 5 vs 1 with the 6 civs on my continent, so once that loner died there was no war for 4000 years... Now we're all allied up and crushing the other islands =D

 

[Kranden]

most I ever had was 14 because I got lucky and took a great wall from the first neighbor I rushed. <3 I attached every one to my major military city other than one GG I attached to a unit.

 

[NovaDream]

I almost asked this same question a week ago. I had 8 Great Generals in a Marathon game, and left a couple of them just sitting around collecting dust.