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Post by Gone on Mar 10, 2020 0:01:39 GMT
1. Must haves (fully upgraded): Beseler, Ivanov, Moltke, Douglas Macarthur (Cuba), Ambrose Burnsides (every bit helps, strong crits), George Meade (good fortress cracker/arty), Phillip Sheridan, Hipper, Nikolaevich. 2. Optional purchases: Hindenberg, McCellan, Joffre, Stepanovic, Skill Swapped Grant, Thank you! Very helpful! |
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Post by Edelweiss7 on Mar 10, 2020 10:34:48 GMT
For the missions including Prussia (Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War); you must absolutely have Beseler, Bismarck and Moltke fully upgraded.
History Missions are kinda annoying because I only have the German generals.
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 10, 2020 11:59:29 GMT
For the missions including Prussia (Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War); you must absolutely have Beseler, Bismarck and Moltke fully upgraded. History Missions are kinda annoying because I only have the German generals. I could complete both with only Leopold (can use Beseler instead) and Moltke, without having to use any medical packs at all. Hence Bismarck is not a must have for history mode |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 11, 2020 2:03:00 GMT
For the missions including Prussia (Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War); you must absolutely have Beseler, Bismarck and Moltke fully upgraded. History Missions are kinda annoying because I only have the German generals. I could complete both with only Leopold (can use Beseler instead) and Moltke, without having to use any medical packs at all. Hence Bismarck is not a must have for history mode He is cheap and good hence why I am debating on getting him over haig or lee |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 11, 2020 8:53:23 GMT
I could complete both with only Leopold (can use Beseler instead) and Moltke, without having to use any medical packs at all. Hence Bismarck is not a must have for history mode He is cheap and good hence why I am debating on getting him over haig or lee He only costs coins too, so that is why he's better I guess. Plus Lee is useless in History Mode (would have been gr8 if there were confederate history missions hahaha) |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 12, 2020 2:36:50 GMT
He is cheap and good hence why I am debating on getting him over haig or lee He only costs coins too, so that is why he's better I guess. Plus Lee is useless in History Mode (would have been gr8 if there were confederate history missions hahaha) For real, stonewall jackson, robert e lee, sidney johnston, borrauguard (jk lol). We would have wreckt a confederate history mode. |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 12, 2020 10:50:32 GMT
He only costs coins too, so that is why he's better I guess. Plus Lee is useless in History Mode (would have been gr8 if there were confederate history missions hahaha) For real, stonewall jackson, robert e lee, sidney johnston, borrauguard (jk lol). We would have wreckt a confederate history mode. Exactly, we can use our 2 main cavalry and infantry generals, plus an additional wonderful johnston. Any enemy spam will be easily nullified  |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 12, 2020 18:28:58 GMT
A couple more
Albrecht:
Cost - 5 textbooks (ad rewards mean he is obtainable after 3 days)
Pros: Will have 5 solid skills are the textbook investment is made.
Cons: Duke but who cares, he is just a temporary general. Starts of with sailor. Also lacks surprise.
Wilhelm II:
Meh skills but king rank and is at 65% health.
Cost: tons of gold
Joffre: only good french generals are joffre and macmahon. You are going to have to invest the medals in order to be able to win battles such as the battle of verdun.
Cost: 5 textbooks
Macmahon: Might want some extra firepower. Pretty great overall.
Stepanovic: the serbian generals in this game are not the best. Especially micis. But if you replace manuever with a terrain bonus, he will be only marginally worse than stonewall jackson after a 5 textbook investment.
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Post by Gone on Mar 13, 2020 23:59:27 GMT
A couple more Albrecht: Cost - 5 textbooks (ad rewards mean he is obtainable after 3 days) Pros: Will have 5 solid skills are the textbook investment is made. Cons: Duke but who cares, he is just a temporary general. Starts of with sailor. Also lacks surprise. Wilhelm II: Meh skills but king rank and is at 65% health. Cost: tons of gold Joffre: only good french generals are joffre and macmahon. You are going to have to invest the medals in order to be able to win battles such as the battle of verdun. Cost: 5 textbooks Macmahon: Might want some extra firepower. Pretty great overall. Stepanovic: the serbian generals in this game are not the best. Especially micis. But if you replace manuever with a terrain bonus, he will be only marginally worse than stonewall jackson after a 5 textbook investment. Well, Foch is amazing after you invest 15 books into him which is tolerable. But yeah, I want to pretend that he doesn’t exist because he is actually unneeded, also Beseler and Ivanov need less investment and are so much better. |
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Post by Gone on Mar 14, 2020 0:06:47 GMT
A couple more Albrecht: Cost - 5 textbooks (ad rewards mean he is obtainable after 3 days) Pros: Will have 5 solid skills are the textbook investment is made. Cons: Duke but who cares, he is just a temporary general. Starts of with sailor. Also lacks surprise. Wilhelm II: Meh skills but king rank and is at 65% health. Cost: tons of gold Joffre: only good french generals are joffre and macmahon. You are going to have to invest the medals in order to be able to win battles such as the battle of verdun. Cost: 5 textbooks Macmahon: Might want some extra firepower. Pretty great overall. Stepanovic: the serbian generals in this game are not the best. Especially micis. But if you replace manuever with a terrain bonus, he will be only marginally worse than stonewall jackson after a 5 textbook investment. For Joffre, the skills that you immediately need to replace are Maneuver and Riding Master. Station and Plain Fighting are skills good enough to not be worth spending textbooks on. Edge is amazing. Give Joffre Precision Strike and Surprise Attack. He will become much better. As for Macmahon, replace Counterattack and Jungle Fighting with Infantry Master and Plain Fighting. Cover and Ambush are not worth the cost to be replaced. For Stepanovic, replace Maneuver and Cover with Edge and Surprise Attack. While Inspiration is not the best skill, it triggers often enough for the effect to be constant, and can help against demoralization. |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 14, 2020 0:43:38 GMT
GoneThose would be good changes. But remember in order to beat history mode, you have to get temporary generals. I mean do you want to keep mccellan, joffre, and stepanovic. Especially when plummer, jackson, sidney, and for some, ludendorf exists. So in joffre I would suggest only investing 5 textbooks as you will trade him in for stepanovic after all of the french history mode missions are completed. Imo Stepanovic >>>>> Joffre as you can stick on better terrain bonuses/skills on him than on joffre. So I would treat joffre as a temporary general like mccellan before him. Macmahon might be a good permanent buy so invest 15 textbooks into him won’t be a bad idea. But at the same time though, he will be slightly inferior to haig so i am guessing he won’t be permanent either.
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Post by Gone on Mar 14, 2020 0:59:53 GMT
Gone Those would be good changes. But remember in order to beat history mode, you have to get temporary generals. I mean do you want to keep mccellan, joffre, and stepanovic. Especially when plummer, jackson, sidney, and for some, ludendorf exists. So in joffre I would suggest only investing 5 textbooks as you will trade him in for stepanovic after all of the french history mode missions are completed. Imo Stepanovic >>>>> Joffre as you can stick on better terrain bonuses/skills on him than on joffre. So I would treat joffre as a temporary general like mccellan before him. Macmahon might be a good permanent buy so invest 15 textbooks into him won’t be a bad idea. But at the same time though, he will be slightly inferior to haig so i am guessing he won’t be permanent either. Haig himself is not a permanent buy for me. Maybe I underrate Ambush, but its 10% chance doesn’t convince me. |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 14, 2020 1:27:33 GMT
Gone Those would be good changes. But remember in order to beat history mode, you have to get temporary generals. I mean do you want to keep mccellan, joffre, and stepanovic. Especially when plummer, jackson, sidney, and for some, ludendorf exists. So in joffre I would suggest only investing 5 textbooks as you will trade him in for stepanovic after all of the french history mode missions are completed. Imo Stepanovic >>>>> Joffre as you can stick on better terrain bonuses/skills on him than on joffre. So I would treat joffre as a temporary general like mccellan before him. Macmahon might be a good permanent buy so invest 15 textbooks into him won’t be a bad idea. But at the same time though, he will be slightly inferior to haig so i am guessing he won’t be permanent either. Haig himself is not a permanent buy for me. Maybe I underrate Ambush, but its 10% chance doesn’t convince me. 10% chance to not take any damage when attacking or defending seems pretty good. Its not as good as 20% chance when attacking, but its still a good skill. The best infantry generals do have ambush though (best ex straussenberg). The only examples of an amazing no ambush infantry general is marcarthur and borevic. Its really hard to avoid. I guess you could also replace haig’s ambush rather than inspiration. Otherwise the cost of removing it seems to be too high to even consider it imo. Plus considering how week infantry is, every bit matters i think. |
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Post by Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus on Mar 14, 2020 1:31:30 GMT
Oh and macarthur is only duke whereas borevic is very good but has unideal terrain bonuses (but has two of them so he can be very flexible). So I guess either stick to ambush or get borevic.
I agree also. My ideal general would be without ambush. It would straussenberg with inf master and tactics master instead of mf and ambush. But Robert E Lee has horrendous skills that are far worse than ambush. Haig has pretty decent skills, but his worst are worse than ambush. Straussenberg has ambush as well, but also mf.
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Post by Gone on Mar 14, 2020 1:42:22 GMT
Oh and macarthur is only duke whereas borevic is very good but has unideal terrain bonuses (but has two of them so he can be very flexible). So I guess either stick to ambush or get borevic. I agree also. My ideal general would be without ambush. It would straussenberg with inf master and tactics master instead of mf and ambush. But Robert E Lee has horrendous skills that are far worse than ambush. Haig has pretty decent skills, but his worst are better than ambush. Straussenberg has ambush as well, but also mf. Well, Straussenberg only needs 2 skills to be replaced to, in my opinion, become an ideal general. So I’m willing to get him unlike pretty much any other Infantry general. Going to make an exception out of Gallwitz since he costs coins. Also going to replace Nicholas I’s Tunnel and Alert with Infantry Master and Tactics Master, since he is free. (And temporarily use MacArthur for the Cuban history mode mission). I’m also willing to get Krasnik. I don’t mind the fact that he has 3 skills, all of them are really good and the fact that he starts as a Baron allows him to get a nice amount of battle ability and his Prince max title helps. He is arguably the 6th best cavalry general in the game, and for someone that costs coins and needs no skill replacement, it’s a bargain. |
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