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📜 General Attack Events

6 events

← All story events Trigger Stories that fire on the General Attack trigger.

How yield rewards scale ↗ turn

A yield reward like +40 Science +10/city ↗turn is not a flat number. The amount you actually receive is:

(base + per-city × your cities) × turn multiplier

  • Per-city adds that much for every city you own (the rival's cities for Steal-Research-style effects).
  • Turn multiplier is ×1 up through turn 60, then ×(turn ÷ 60) after — ×1.5 at turn 90, ×2 at turn 120, ×3.3 at turn 200.

The number on each chip is the ×1 (base) value. Hover a yield chip for a cities × turn table of the real reward. Example — +40 Science +10/city with 4 cities: 80 early game → 120 at turn 90 → 160 at turn 120. The mission pages also have a live calculator. ("Tiny / Small / Average / Large" in the game are just preset base/per tiers — shown here as their real numbers.)

⚠ Weights are not in-game odds. Each story is gated by character/empire conditions (some hidden in-game), so its real frequency is filtered in ways the XML can't predict — community analytics differ a lot from raw weights. Treat the weight as the XML knob, not a probability.

Battlefield Strain General Attack
5% to appear Every 80 turns Leader 2+ Non Leader Us
  • ▸ Send him to a Templetemple for care.
    Gain trait: Incubated
    grants
    BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_INCUBATED
    aeAddTraits: TRAIT_INCUBATED
  • ▸ He must lead his troops.
    Gain trait: Miserable
    grants
    BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_MISERABLE
    aeAddTraits: TRAIT_MISERABLE

✎ Andy Auseon Background reading ↗

Elephant Formations General Attack Empires of the Indus
100% to appear Once per game
  • ▸ Together we are unstoppable.
    Gain trait: Mahout
    grants
    BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_MAHOUT
    aeAddTraits: TRAIT_MAHOUT

✎ Josh Unsworth Background reading ↗

Fog of War General Attack
5% to appear Every 80 turns Turn 20+ Non Leader UsPlayer UsUnit Us GeneralUnit Melee
Always Gain trait: Crippled
  • ▸ Mistakes can happen in the fog of war
    (no gates or payload in XML)

✎ Andy Auseon

Like Heroes of Old General Attack The Sacred and the Profane Religion event pack
40% to appear Once per game Leader UsPlayer ThemReligion Pagan GeneralReligionReligion Leader
  • ▸ Give glory to the gods who guided you to victory.
    -1 Wisdom
    grants
    BONUS_LOSE_WISDOM_1
    aiRatings: RATING_WISDOM=-1
    BONUS_EVENTOPTION_LIKE_HEROES_OF_OLD_OPTION_0_RELIGION
    AmbitionReligion GOAL_POLYTHEISM
  • ▸ Take hold of yourself, such visions are likely some form of battle madness.
    +1 DisciplineGain a random trait
    grants
    BONUS_EVENTOPTION_LIKE_HEROES_OF_OLD_OPTION_1_CHARACTER
    aiRatings: RATING_DISCIPLINE=1
    aeRandomTraitDelay: TRAIT_ILL, TRAIT_IMPIOUS, TRAIT_WARLIKE
    aeRandomTraitText: TEXT_BONUS_EVENTOPTION_LIKE_HEROES_OF_OLD_ILL, TEXT_BONUS_EVENTOPTION_LIKE_HEROES_OF_OLD_IMPIOUS, TEXT_BONUS_EVENTOPTION_LIKE_HEROES_OF_OLD_WARLIKE

✎ Josh Unsworth

Shattered Sword General Attack
Every 0 turns Leader UsCapital Us Sword Of The Gods
  • ▸ I will find another.
    -4 LegitimacyLoses trait: Sword of the Gods
    grants
    BONUS_EVENTOPTION_MYSTERIOUS_SWORD_BREAK_ACCEPT
    iLegitimacy -4
    aeRemoveTraits: TRAIT_SWORD_OF_THE_GODS

✎ Leyla Johnson

The Defector General Attack The Sacred and the Profane Religion event pack
5% to appear Once per game Religion StateUsPlayer ThemCourtier Soldier TempPlayer Us GeneralMelee
  • ▸ Ignore [character] warnings and accept the [religion] defector.
    Leader relationship: Disappointed WithRemembered: Defector (+80 opinion for 40 turns)(no event currently keys off this)Gain a Court Soldier
    grants
    BONUS_LEADER_DISAPPOINTED_WITH
    AddLeaderRelationship RELATIONSHIP_DISAPPOINTED_WITH
    BONUS_EVENTOPTION_THE_DEFECTOR_OPTION_0_CHARACTER_1
    Memory MEMORYCHARACTER_DEFECTOR
    aeBonuses: BONUS_MAKE_GREAT_SOLDIER
    ◇ grants a memory no event currently keys off
  • ▸ Execute [character] as a spy.
    Leader relationship: Influenced ByThe character is killed
    grants
    BONUS_LEADER_INFLUENCED_BY
    AddLeaderRelationship RELATIONSHIP_INFLUENCED_BY
    BONUS_KILL_CHARACTER
    bKillCharacter 1

✎ Josh Unsworth