How To Complete Battle Of Jena

Sad thing is though, the French/Coalition campaigns are the only ones that I can really give advice on because all the other campaigns require generals, and my generals are simply too powerful to be used in a guide. Even if I took off my items to compensate, their hp would still be probably too high. So, basically, if you have anything to ask between those two, do so freely I guess.

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This strategy worked well for me, though your style may vary. I apologize in advance, but I intentionally made this very detailed, since most guides I've read on here aren't detailed enough.

Upgrade your cities and take Dresden in Round 1 - lead with artillery attacks. You should also be able to heavily damage the infantry at Brunswick, the heavy cavalry west of Ney, and the heavy artillery by itself in the center (use Napoleon). For some reason, the Prussians rarely attack Ney, so you can get him out of there in a round or two. Stick him on a city for while. You should be able to take Brunswick in Round 2, Jena by 3 or 4 at most.

Until you take Oldenburg and Kiel, pound on them with your Frigates (did you forget about them? I did until Round 3...) You should be able to take Oldenburg about Round 5, Kiel about Round 7, then send the frigates around Denmark. If you feel like it, you can even take the Danish port and even Copenhagen by about Round 11 - I only needed the two frigates and one grenadier general to do all that (the general is needed for capturing Copenhagen, and more importantly, taking out the naval fort with minimal damage to the frigates). The frigates can be very helpful in fending off the eventual Russian reinforcements, if it takes you too long to wipe out the target generals.

Once you've taken Jena, have those troops mop up any forward Prussian troops - no more will advance - but do NOT engage the Prussian fortresses yet!!! Build up artillery from Brunswick and infantry from upgraded Jena and/or Dresden until ready to engage. You should be able to take the stable NW of Berlin by Round 7 or 8 by looping around from the west.

Meanwhile, have your eastern forces (I used Murat, Davout, and a few cannon fodder) take out the mobile Austrian troops; since they will attack you in waves, you can take each unit out with minimal losses. Once you take Brunn, swing north - ignore the Austrian fortresses on the map border (why are they there, anyway?). LURE Blucher southeastward beyond the eastern fortress, surround and destroy him, THEN take on the fortress. Beware of artillery being generated from the factory east of Berlin.

About the same time you're taking on Blucher, you should be able to surround and destroy the western fortress. At this point, you are performing a giant pincer movement, with Berlin in the middle. Take out the infantry behind Scharnhorst first - they may advance, which is nice. Even better is the fact that Scharnhorst will NOT attack you! He will counterattack, of course, but he NEVER attacked me first until I took out every single other unit west of Warsaw. He doesn't have much HP, but his attacks are devastating - siege artillery were ineffectual, so just surround and pound.

I won in Round 13, but I used 2 purchased generals (on the starting lvl 2 guard infantry and lvl 2 heavy artillery) and 2 princesses (I saved up and bought Sophia a lvl 2 guard cavalry, and stuck Fatima on the light infantry at Verdun for income generation). However, none of them are very strong yet - 3 chevrons (+36 HP) max.

Tips:
- You have 2 generals with Assault Art (Murat on Guard Cavalry, Davout on Heavy Artillery) - you can save and reload before each attack they make until they use it. Using proper blocking, you can take out even the strongest enemy general in a round or two using these two... together, they can deal out 150+ damage per turn!
- If you have a high-trade general, send him to Danzig and buy the Snare Drum (has the same effect as Mass Fire, but for ANY kind of unit). If you don't, you can still send Napoleon (lvl 3 trade) there and buy it for 555 medals. You can save before killing Scharnhorst, kill him and beat the map in the time limit, then reload and take your time getting to Danzig.
- Netherland troops are useless aside from drawing fire from the Prussians between Brunswick and Oldenberg. Don't count on any help from them after that.

Wow, thirteen turns? I feel so bad now, haha.

I think the crucial difference was that he managed to hold onto Jena while I lost it and had a *Auto corrected* of a time taking it back (I even lost Ney here, actually). Not sure where the difference in firepower comes from though; perhaps he upgraded cities less than I did, I'm not sure. Could've also been the extra generals, I suppose.

Where does General Grant post this stuff anyway? I don't think I've seen him on these forums.

And I got promoted, yeahhhh, by the way saltin, if u r reading this then add me on facebook, I have already sent u a request

I know this is an old post, but I have some advice to add. If you send Napoleon to Kiel, the Russians will get distracted and go after him. Then when they get close, flee up Denmark and escape!