Conquest difficulty ranking: which do I pick?

You're not supposed to do it with beginner tech. It's very difficult to win Conquests that way, especially on 1812 and 1815.

If you still insist, move your troops against Austria and knock it out ASAP.
Defend against the Prussians and Russians while launching invasions of the two.

When the "eastern front" is cleared up, turn west against anything else that opposes you. Start to disband useless or badly weakened units when your victory is secured in the east so that you can spam inf against the troops from Iberia.

Clear up Britain and Iberia and launch an invasion of North America.

In this case, you need to quickly march against Britain since the key French cities in the north are exposed.

Like what was mentioned above, disband troops which you don't need or want.
Use your freed up population to spam troops in Bavaria and check the British invasions.

You should be able to recapture a few allied coastal cities which is valuable in a naval invasion of Britain.


Use March or Forced March (which ever Tactic that increases movement in EW6: 1804 that you have) to march any remaining valuable troops from Russia to France, such as any remaining gens.

While your allies attack from Iberia, you can attack North America via Ireland.

I tried Spain 1806 but apparently the coalition overwhelms my allies every time. I managed to defeat Morocco easily and also capture Sardinia and even land in Ireland but in mainland Europe my forces keep on getting overwhelmed by the British, Prussians, Russians, Neapolitans, Swedish and Austrians. France has lost most of its generals and the Ottomans are about to lose Istanbul.

I pulled off France 1815 conquest.

Its annoying but not actually all that bad. To the right, you have to capitulate Bavaria turn 1, then help naples and italy defeat austria, prussia, and move to defeat sweden then denmark then the rest of russia.

On the left, you have to capitulate portugal then get control of the entire iberian peninsula, while simulateously having a naval invasion (schooner fleet) to the small spanish island to gibraltar to the defeat morocco. Your allies will handle egypt and tribal union.

The main difficulty is then the us which you should go out of your way to lend lease as well as brazil.

Its very hard and tedious but not impossible.

The thing is, based on my run without gens, I cannot find any opportunity to use them and use them well in the critical early phases of the game.
Until the end, I had little to spare because I kept spamming militia and light cav.