Can I get her without all these?Can anyone make a guide for getting her?
Picard’s original guide for France ‘98 is still the gold standard, imo.
My own preferred strategy requires one artillery and one cavalry general. I used Kutaisov (64/6) and Berthier (125/10 with 5* cav and 3* movement), respectively, WITHOUT additional items.
1. Use Kutaisov + Jourdan + Massena to invade Britain. Nothing too complicated here; just cross the Channel ASAP and bomb the hell out of Hill. With leadership and snare drum, he’s pretty tough, so I would stick to an artillery bombardment until Massena can finish him off. Quickly take out Charles and Liverpool by turn 12ish before splitting up your generals:
a. Kutaisov to Portugal
b. Massena and frigates to Hood and then Sweden
c. Jourdan to mop up the British Isles and then Sweden if necessary
2. Send your two starting light infantry to Portugal by land. Snipe Zaragoza and the town on the Spanish-Portuguese border. It’ll be slow work without a general, but you’ll eventually grind them down. Kutaisov’s arrival hastens the end.
3. Send Marmont and the two infantrymen near him to take out Sardinia—> Sicily—> Naples. This force can generally count on Italian or Ottoman support, so take your time here if you need to. By turn 20-25, take 2 frigates and/or surviving infantry to mop up a hopefully weak Nelson (if he’s not dead).
4. Put Berthier (read: your cav gen) on the starting double heavy cav in Clermont. Take out the Austrian troops on the Rhine ASAP and then split your forces:
a. Moreau + Dumouriez (who’s probably weak by now) + Desaix to Berlin via Brunswick. Spam light artillery to guard your Baltic flank and bomb out Berlin. If you have an extra artillery general, put him on the starting light artillery next to Dumouriez and send him with this force
b. Berthier with some infantry to take out Munich, the troops west of Vienna, and then Vienna itself.
c. Napoleon plus infantry to take out Klenau in Northern Italy and then join Berthier in time to assault Vienna.
Note: A good rule of thumb is to take Vienna, London, AND Berlin by round 10-12.
d. Put Archduke John (or a second cavalry general if you don’t have a second artillery General) on a double guards cav in Weilburg and send him to take out Brunn (with the help of Berthier and Napoleon)
5. Send Army Group Vienna to Lviv and then detach Berthier to take out Kiev and then Moscow (don’t hesitate to give him a medikit if you find yourself needing one to fight Barclay!). Spam units in towns along the way to mop up Russia.
6. Mopping up. Army Group Prussia should deal with Suvorov if he’s still around, and Napoleon and John should cover your southern flank to take out Lusignan and southern Russia, but the last 10-15 turns should be self-explanatory. This conquest took me 38 turns with 9k/4k/9k resources, which is about where you’d want to be by the end of your run.
