McClellan or Stonewall?

George McClellan is better than Stonewall. Aura, better terrain, and precision strike. He deals more damage in overall. Stonewall is more like a spam-destroyer but does worse when fighting more powerful units like Generals. Ludendorff is actually both of them at the same time.

Him costing medals doesn't mean much as medals are pretty much only used for buying generals (and gold and silver/gold medals, but who does that?). 

Also, let's look at how they actually compare and not just throw opinions at each others.

Jackson starts out with:

77 BA, 45 CA, M General, Count

lv2 riding master, lv2 station, lv2 edge, lv1 tactic master, lv2 forest.

McClellan starts out with: 

66 BA, 35 CA, Colonel, Count

Lv 2 precision strike, lv 1 edge, lv 2 cavalry commander, lv 2 plain.

They both start out at count and ends up as emperor, so they're equally as expensive there. Statwise Jackson has +39% attack from stats at emperor, and McClellan has +32% attack at emperor.

Skillwise, I have to give this to McClellan. Riding master is awful. Just +10% crit damage at lv5? Let's say the crit chance is 30%, then Riding master gives +3% average damage. It's also even worse as crit damage is unreliable. Plain gives more at lv1. Station is really dangerous to use as units in cities attract enemy fire, and he benefits more from using forests anyway. So what I'm basically looking at is lv2 edge, lv1 tactic master, and lv2 forest vs lv2 precision strike, lv1 edge, lv2 cavalry commander, and lv2 plain. The former has the potential to be stronger given luck and is cheaper, but is generally weaker on average. The latter is stronger on average, but more expensive.   

So what do I think? Stonewall IS cheaper. Not by a lot, and mostly by virtue of having some skills that are not worth upgrading, and also does have potential to be stronger than McClellan. McClellan is more expensive, but is stronger on average. I will absolutely take McClellan over Stonewall though since I don't have the attitude of assuming that RNG will go in my favor like people who argued for stuff like Davout. and I do consider his higher damage to be worth the cost. 

There’s no use comparing a monkey and a fish. They serve different purpose and are completely different. When placed as an solo entity , McClellan might be better in turns of consistent dps but who uses McClellan or stonewall solo anyways? When used together , both under aura buff, the damage difference is not that big but stonewall is always the one to come in clutch tho cus of the random RNG tactics master. Which actually triggers quite a lot in this game. Forest terrain is far more common in EW6: 1914. Easytech also added a couple of random mountains all around the map as well. So why not everyone just use both and dominate the battlefield? Cheers