All generals ranked EW4

I see.

On Charles vs Junot, I thought you were comparing them in terms of creating an all tier-1 lineup, which Junot is plain better than Charles in clearing enemies outside of cities (most of them). If you are talking about early game then yes Charles definitely. At least I cannot tolerate Junot's 0* movement. Speaking of that, I'd suggest putting Quosdanovih and Diez on your radar. Both suck in terms of damage when compared to Dumouriez, Charles, etc. but at least they have ok movement + cavalry stars and are both trainers.

Well yeah if you don't keep reinstalling then getting a decent beginning general sometimes will be a pain. I somehow always get lucky in the first few refreshes so I wasn't really thinking about it. My problem.

If you are talking about a cavalry op in early game... Mr. No need to regroup? lol

Based on my experiment, Sophia always takes one more turn than Isabela (both not regrouped in movement, no item) to get to Barcelona on that light cav at Weilburg, 1798 HRE. But if I feel like taking Lyon on the way there then it will be the same, and we both know Davout has the lowest average output out of the 3 you mentioned without regrouping. And for my 1775 US conquest, you can even do it with 0 general and be perfectly fine, except it will be harder to fight Spain. As for campaigns... in my memory I rarely needed my cavalry general to maneuver over a relatively long distance within a single turn, so Dumouriez with 2* movement was fast enough for me. So I would say Davout's cavalry aspect is not necessarily THAT outstanding at the very beginning of the game. I admit his uniqueness on artillery though.

Davout 

Price: 8 Emblems

Type of General: Cavarly & Artillery Hybrid



Starting Movement: 4 hex on Heavy Cavarly and Light Cavarly, 3 Hex on Horse Grenadiers and Armored Cars. 2 hex on heavy artillery and siege artillery. 3 hex on light artillery and rocket artillery




Solid! For some, he will be good. For others, he will be very good. He is either a cavarly general with 3 good skills, or an artillery general with 3 good skills. No one in the middle tier can do what davout does. Fantastic! The perfect general to starting farming for princesses with. 

He is the only iap cavarly general with geography, so you kind of have a berthier lite when you use him, except with assualt art instead of strike.


Now radetsky does start with 4 training stars, same movement, and 4 trading stars, so he also is not bad at helping with obtaining the princesses so i do see your point. On artillery, the best iap is hands down Nelson (as Moreau is pretty subpar). But I still feel as though Davout can affectively multitask.


For instance, if you need a fast cavarly general (Sardinia 1815), you can always rely on davout as there are tons and tons of desert tiles in Algeria. I was going of the logic that as you only have access to one war horse early on, you probably want to give it to Sophia. Other iaps can be also fantastic for grabbing princesses, but Davout’s movement is easily the best out of all of them. You need a strong artillery general? Davout’s is available. While he can be a bit inconsistent when it comes to output, he is definitely far from a bad general. Although I do agree, surprise/explosive are only really stand out when paired with bugle or assualt art. So Poniatowski can really do what davout does while also being a fantastic naval general and having leadership. Still i do feel as Davout’s output difference over poniatowski is quite significant nevertheless.

If you chance his skills he could be better for sure - but farming for textbooks takes endless in EW4 - so, because you can't change a skill your evaluation is lower than 'isn't that bad'


Especially the Napoleonic code which is hard to find and  is very expensive.