Generaux = 255 has one reason : with this Parameters, human player can not use the game-play tactic to not fight ennemy units and to go directly to kill ennemy generals...

But if necessary, you can use cavalery or guns and give them lot of "supression point", so they will be "pinned", "routed" or "retreating". General units do not represent THE general, but all the "commandement line" : it is difficult to kill them, but easy to give them suppression points.
