EW4 platform instability blues (thread renamed)

𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘴𝘬𝘺 , Tell me what you think of this approach to my relaxed way of playing the game.

It relies on two assumptions - never grinding hard through the campaigns, and only playing conquests at an easy pace for fun, to try out different nations, etc.

Playing with 4 slots, I currently have Arnold, Dumouriez and Sophia. If I grind up the rank and nobility on my generals and princess, I figure it might even be possible to get Fatimah from the current save. Otherwise I will run HRE 1798 once more, since I now have warhorse and can get to Spain faster (the recent game in which I unlocked Sophia, the Portuguese had already conquered half of Spain).

Once I have her, I will spam academy refreshes until I get Jerome, the cheapest Business trainer. Then I regroup Arnold into Fatimah, buy Jerome, and push her all the way up to 5* trading. This way I get an econ general who's also an architect, and who can go on a less powerful but faster unit to hop from city to city easily, for use in those small-nation conquests. My heavy-lift combat team is made up of Dumouriez and Sophia, who are easily able to handle a slow-paced conquest by themselves, and I will have one spot left for trainer generals.

In the unlikely event that I ever do a fast enough run to get Isabella, I will free up a slot by regrouping Dumouriez into Sophia and Sophia will then become my cavalry general. Having both Spy and Siege Master will still make this an appropriate career for her, since on cavalry she can hit troops in cities hard then potentially retake the city immediately if she kills the defender.

Your way to play sounds really correct.

To train Fatima on 5⭐ business makes sence. There even two cheap business-triner in tier I, so you will find one soon.

Untrained Sophia on cavalary will help you to finish a french conquest (1806/1809) fast enough to get Isabella by the time. Don't use Sophia on cavalary for the Ottoman front, there is too much terrain evasion. In the campaign, you need her on artillery.

I don't like to grind too, and I never needed to grind 🎖️. BUT: A first nobility grind (Siege of Tulon) can bring your headquarter quickly to the maximum of (70000) - this are 80 years more. And commander with nobility 10 is like having two tents that always work - great for long conquests. And with nob 10 they can do the starting exchanges (🔧 to 💰) like a 5⭐ trader.
For this reasons a nobility grind is the cheat I use.

I read about your Siege of Toulon grind this afternoon, and I just went and set it up. Very neat! Thank you!

Running the game with charging was advised a few times in older threads.
For me, your problems must be something hardware or device-specific.
For real: I crashed the game much more than 1000 times - only, if loading the headquarter screen fails, i got a whiped out headquarter.sav. For You, playing the original - this should be never the case.

Your princess: I regrouped also a cav-trainer in fatima, but there was not this much use. Especially later in the campaign, fatima has in >90% her light infantry.

I train (if I can keep her with more slots) Sophia on cavalary - my absolute prefered unit.

I always say: trainer only for end-game generals, but as you play a more long run: With Sophia (Art), Fatima (Eco) and Maria, I would regroup Dumouirez in Maria. I use maria only on (guards) cavalary, and hey she can be ok, much more usefull than Dumo, the extra movement counts.

Look that you got ALL items before to spend in trainer - with Fatima on 5⭐ you can rent everything in the campaign (BUY-SELL-BUY). SnairS and +6 ATK items, I buy in the daylie shop if they are offered.

I play at a quite simmilar stage with my official EW4.

As you know, I play EW4 quite napoleonic: fast forward.

In the campaign Sophia has her spot on artillery. Later, when Isabella is needed, you will get rockets for isabella.

But in long conquests, my Sophia on Guards cavalary is the end of much more than the few forts that she can reach on artillery. +125% - just one pistol gives flat +13DMG against forts (and a second one or the snair). On units whith higher max-dmg, +100HP ! plus the advantages cav has.

For training: Maria will hit on a normal conquest more times than Fatima - she is great to upgrade alredy developed cities and factories! somehow behind the front. The Economic Master brings more than Architecture can save - you don't want Fatima to upgrade LV1-3 cities. Architecture pays out more on industry ! 120/65 per upgrade.

I just talk about my experience from my first play: Every mission has its troops for at least 3 princess. Fatima's sedan chair is always the easiest to find: light infantry 3 hex distance from a capital or trading post.

When I got Isabella, I found in the campaign (HRE¿) rockets for Isabella additional to the classic artillery for Sophia. For a fresh commander like Isi, with low HP perfect: they deal relative high dammage, without recieving any. And Isabella is fast enough to get away, before an enemy can come to close.

You always have to work in a team with rockets, alone they are too weak. For the AI are forts in construction and rockets the first target! You even can pull out a defending general from an installation, by brinig rockets in his range.

When you get 3 top artillery at the mission start (end of HRE or during Eastern, idk), it´s time for Sakurako.

I wish i had the time to play EW4 again. It was the game that got me into the other E.T games, and it was probably the most fun i had in any E.T games. Shame it doesn't have any cloud saves, as i lost all my purchases when i got a new phone(rip Poniatowski, Murat, Davout, Dombrowski and Washington). I also want to replay conquests to see how fast i could finish them now. I also missed Lan, Isabela and Sophia, as i love strong f2p generals, or princesses in this case.