All generals ranked EW4

I might add Berthier as a long-term project or Golitsyn as a finisher if you play with 6 or more slots, but yeah. A princess-based team is probably the best way to roll, unless you use IAP generals.

I mean sure, most IAPs aren’t worth the money. However, there are a few generals like Lannes, Nelson, and Davout that are either better than or don’t have an obvious princess counterpart. Golitsyn and Berthier are imo the only T2 generals who fit that description.

I read again Berthier

He was a great staff commander, Napoleon's 'right hand' but he was The worst general in field ever , during this area.

The EW4-Berthier skills and ⭐ are choosen to be like his historical original.

Fence is no cavalry skill (only inf.)
Geography is an Anti-skill for cavalry.
Heavy cavalry (the only case to use) equals light Artillery (move/cost) guards cavalry have additional 'spy deluxe' (forts+50% and also ships+40%!) - armored cars deal more than ≈+50% against cavalry and infantry.
Heavy cavalry is good for spamming but nothing for a good general - and so geography - useful: 0.

Two skills for 945🎖 - starting slow and weak - and after 2k🎖 more of investment, his max. damage can be maybe up to 9 higher than Sakurako. Wow! (8.4 on dbl. AC against cav)

Even his 4⭐ trade are fake - with high nobility you need either 2⭐ or 5⭐.

Berthier is a horrible general. probably the worst buy you can make - he will mess up your progress for long - without being useful.

He is famous for being a fail.

I don't care for the circumstances of his death or the period right before.

He was a big help for Napoleon during planning and perfect for administrating his plans. Very high ranked, but the few times he had the command on his own he failed completely. He is famous - for being a horrible general.

Yes, but potential wise, he is better than lan. I cannot tell you how annoying it is when 2 out of lan’s 4 hex movement is absorbed by the terrain. If you are smart, you can avoid terrain mobility loses but if you aren’t, it will sting pretty badly.


Imo on berthier, I would give him a snair drum and a flintlock, whereas for sakurako (ignoring lan for now), I would give her a warhorse and a snair drum. Again, this means that Berthier will have surprise and then a flintlock on sakurako, which is like a 15 damage boost essentially. Berthier is a general who is absolutely fantastic at sieging cities where that little bit of extra damage will make a difference between killing or not killing city garrison.


The trade star situation, regroup jerome, 330 medals, into him and he will be 5 star. There is a large difference between a 5 star trade general and a 4 star trade general (achievable with high nobility as well). That combined with how little jerome costs makes this a pretty much invalid point.


I do agree with how he starts out sucking. If you have more than 4 general slots, and are also willing to grind, you could make that sum in a week’s time. The grand total comes out to be 3,450 medals (3 extra mov, 4 extra cav, 1 extra trading). Which is honestly not all that terrible of a grind. I believe I done worse as I have gotten lannes to 5 stars in everything.



When compared to Lan, Berthier’s will still have that consistent edge as he will have a flintlock advantage to her (you will need to give lan a geography item). Lan’s leadership will be meh the majority of the time as lan will be at max morale due to being a cavarly general. 2 extra training stars is also not a collosal difference, especially when its between 3 and 5. Assualt art is a great addition to. But you’ll find that berthier’s output will be much more conistent than lan’s.



No one can deny that he is really good when maxed out, as there are very few generals in comparison with the same amount of potential. His enormous trading price however thus make him a turn off for most casual players due to how long it will take.

Well if you like to item swap, all power to you. I just don’t like it as it painfully slows down the game. And yes, 3450 medals is 69 missions 5 starred, which is more than 3 campaigns. But once again, if you are delligient and sit down, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and grind out the battle of trafalgar for severals hours per day, you will get berthier maxed out in no time. So i don’t really think that forcing the player to grind hard for him is a bad thing, as many of us are more than capable of pulling this off.


Indeed, berthier is a horrendous buy with a 4 general slot maximum cap or among the first generals. Imo you should buy him after getting sakurako. Even Golitsyn is a mediocre buy early on considering that Sulkowski or Raevsky (Get one to the two and scharnhorst then grind) are very cheap and great price performers that will fulfill your cavarly needs in the time being. And don’t forget that Sophia needs a war horse too.



If you get Berthier after Sakurako, he will be 1). Fast and strong enough to make short work of the western front during Britain 1812, 2) Fast enough to make knocking out the ottoman empire during 1798 a breeze, 3) A 5 star trading general making campaigns and conquests a breeze, 4) Better survivability and damage over golitsyn.



Its honestly personal preference. 1) Berthier is never horrible, just a really bad grind like the ecs that might make you actually restart the game if you find out you are not up to the task. 2) I am sure if you ask any of those who actually did get berthier maxed, they would say that he is the best general in the game and their go to over lan.