All generals ranked EW4

Arnold


Price: 535 Medals


Type of General: Infantry


Starting Movement: 2 hexes


Arnold is a general that will save you medals if you buy him, especially if you are playing without iaps. His 5 star trade ability will jump start your economy, especially in conquest. In combat, he is also not all that bad as his spy ability can definitely deal some good damage against forts. And he is also a business trainer, so that means only about 200 medals are lost. For 200 medals, Arnold is actually pretty dang good. 

Also having a 5 star trade general early on means you can purchase/rent good items like the war horse early on, and sell the golden stars as well. So imo, Arnold deserves purple as he might even be the best starting general to begin ew4 with.

Hull


Price: 595 Medals


Type of General: Infantry



Starting Movement: 3 hexes on light infantry, 2 hexes on everything else



At last, the time has come! Pray for Hull, because I am about to rip into him.


Hull is easily the most overrated general in the entire game, and its not hard to see why. He has 4 infantry stars, two infantry skills, and good movement so how bad can be. I imagine that that alone is a beacon attracting the attention of most noobs playing that game who think that purchasing Hull will solve their problems. Well it won't, and here's why.



1. Hull is expensive. Hull is 600 medals practically, and probably the most expensive first tier general. And that is probably only making him more appealing in the eyes of noobs. But he is no where near the price, especially considering the fact that Zakrevsky is 25% less expensive, but is a trainer with mass fire, making him have at least twice the quality if not more than hull. Furthermore, there are better and cheaper options even in the first tier. And if you consider the fact that he is only 270 medals less than Dobeln, one of the best infantry generals in the game, you can easily see how ridiculously expensive hull is. 


2. Hull is average at best: in fact, if you wait a bit, you will get Sakurako and Maria as free to use princesses after grinding out conquests. You need 450 years rule in europe to get Maria (which is not all that hard, I have gotten 600 with no generals and others have even gotten to 700), and 350 years rule in Asia for Sakurako. Compared to both, Hull has an extra infantry star on Maria, but is crippled by the tradeoff, losing a star of movement (meaning he moves a hex slower on grenadiers, guards, and line infantry) and 3 training stars. We are not even going to compare him to sakurako, the quality difference is massive. Otherwise, an infantry general with formation will have decent output at first, but will become a peashooter after a couple of hits, and hull's painful zero training stars are not helping his case. 



3. Hull is an infantry general. Infantry is much less useful than cavarly (especially cavarly with a snair drum) or artillery early on. And a infantry general with mass fire as a starting general. Eww



4. Rowland and Blasius are better. Rowland has leadership making him not afraid of cavarly, flanking, or food shortages. He has essentially hull's output with an additional skill making him much better. Blasius is hull with spy making him a great fortress cracker. Yeah, even among the tier 1 generals, there are many better choices. 
 

Hull is overrated, don't get him! I beg of you. He'll die before he contributes anything to your game whatsover. And he is also very expensive. He sucks honestly, and is not good.  

You saved the best review for last. LOL

Makes me want to update my ew4 mod and make him the most powerful General he is so bad.

Desaix is simple, just slap 3 more training stars on him and BOOM, great general for Davout fans.

Or even Banner instead of War Expert 💥 🤭
It is just hard to find the +4 and +6 banner.

Very nice and handy your ranking became!

Thank you! Great Work Friedrich “Fried Rice” Paulus🏆