L'Empereur/Notes

Centers of Power

Certain cities in the game are designated as "centers of power". They are as follows:

• 5: London
• 7: Stockholm
• 8: Copenhagen
• 9: Amsterdam
• 12: Berlin
• 13: Warsaw
• 14: StPetersburg
• 17: Moscow
• 22: Vienna
• 24: Munich
• 28: Paris
• 34: Venice
• 37: Rome
• 39: Istanbul
• 42: Lisbon
• 44: Madrid

In order for Napoleon to advance from one rank to the next, you must first capture both a specific number of cities and a specific number of centers of power.

Personality Traits

The last byte of every officer's entry in ROM 0x3466A - 0x35758 encodes hidden personality traits which have multiple subtle effects on gameplay. These traits & their known effects are as follows:

1. Simple, Calm, or none
2. Coward, Courage, or none
3. Charm or none
4. Luck or none
5. Allegiance (Value from 0 to 3)

Simple (0x80)

• When you deny an officer's request for an expedition, if that officer is Simple, there is a chance that he will disobey your orders and attack anyway. The chance of this is:

If that officer is also Courageous: 50%
Otherwise: (50-(floor(Loyalty/2)))%

Courage (0x10)

• Officers that are Courageous are more likely to launch attacks on adjacent cities even when outnumbered.

Luck (0x04)

• Officers that are Lucky have a decreased chance of dying of old age each January.

Allegiance (0x03)

• Officers with low Allegiance stats drop Loyalty at a faster rate & are more likely to defect.