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Do you have already Sakurako ?
If not, don't forget to finish again your best conquest after a few missions or rank-up of your generals. Your Asian score will continiously increase with more progress. (Roundbreaks (big loss of years) for Asia, are in europe after round 30,40,50. And for american conquests after round 25,35,45 ...)

Imo as a non s&l and no swapping items player

Isabella > Lan > Sophia > Sakurako > Kate > Victoria > Fatimah > Maria

Isabella is amazing. Very fast and very deadly

Lan is very good. She would be perfect if leadership was swapped to geography. However, without a war horse her movement is rage inducing bad.

Sophia does way more damage than Isabella but loses the movement and training stars. Still, as she is unlocked very early and has good skills, she is amazing too.

Sakurako - Basically a great artillery, cavarly, and infantry general all in one. She is better than Scharnhorst on artillery, better than Oudinot and Dobeln on infantry, and better than golitsyn on cavarly. The fantastic movement, training stars, and skills makes her a very strong general after a lot of investment. I’d make her cavarly/infantry only tho as you do get sophia and isabella.

Kate - best navy general in the game.

Victoria - an above average infantry general and a mediocre navy general. She isn’t amazing at either, and Sakurako is a much better choice due to her flexibility. If you have Lannes, Wellington, Washington, or Poniatowski, you probably won’t ever use Victoria on infantry anyway. Imo the most overrated.

Fatimah - a great economic general that is very fast on light infantry. Replace her with Kosciusko who can travel 4 hexes on light infantry with some boots later on in the game. But still definitely overhated.

Maria - A mediocre infantry general that you can use for a while. She ain’t bad as she is better than generals like cornplanter and hull. But she also only has one good skill and that is formation

Untrained Victoria has a lot of competitors but once she gets up to 5 stars is as good as most, right? Defense art and assault seem to trigger pretty regularly. The Bugle/ Mass Fire combo is what you are looking for, but the lack of leadership is tough to replace.

Thank you for the note littlecorporal

Exact this I noticed yesterday again: Victoria's Assult Art seem to trigger pretty often.

I use always the same unit im my grind in Eylau. Compare to my dissappointing Lan recordings with less than 3%, Victoria got pretty often AA - I did not record it but quite regular (I didn't use her for longer - this can be also a factor - she came close to 10% (feeling)!)
The only change: after 6 months I made it a 4-General grind (10.6%)

What do you mean... replace Lan's leadership with geo?

Nah. Geo only maxes your cav movement to 6 hex for light/heavy cav, assuming you have 5* mov and 2x saddles.
Leadership is worth more than that 1 hex because 5 is already pretty fast, man. If you really want geo so badly, then replace Surprise instead.

WDYM Sakurako is better than Oudinot/Dobeln/Golitsyn??? WDYM??
Sakurako is a generalist. Cannot outperform specialists like those you mentioned. Oudinot has formation over her, Dobeln has mass fire (extra item slot for +6 atk), and Golitsyn has surprise.
For infantry, Bugle is less useful bcz there are so little terrain disadvantage for them. Formation about equal level to Bugle, just for Inf. So Oudinot is better.
Dobeln's mass fire lets you have +12 atk regardless of hp, and that's so much better than what any other atk skill can do. Admitted he have no training star, but he can heal up by sheer dmg.
Golitsyn I guess is marginally better. But if you're talking about Sakurako's training stars here, for cavalry, as they deal a lot of dmg, they gain chevrons too fast and ur not recommended to train them anyways. It is useful but situational.

Kate is NOT the best Navy gen. Navigation is not a combat skill, and fire damage prevented by Fireproof is actually very negligible and even replaceable with an item.
Steersman is an excellent skill. Sure. But Jervis is definitely superior to Kate as he has both Leadership and Steersman, making him very tanky. A desirable quality in Navy.

Victoria is not gonna be used anyways bcz u have IAP gens?? Excuse me, most ppl don't spend on this game. This is the biggest reason why we WILL USE Victoria.

And most of those IAPs are also terrible in comparion. Victoria is very powerful. I can approve Lannes, but the rest are terrible. Wellington- Econ Master is replaceable by superior items, Banner is trash, Bugle is not as good as Strike/Accurate, and Leadership is the only good thing he have. He's even outmatched in training stars. Washington- Econ Master replaceable, Banner trash, I guess he has Leadership/Mass Fire. AA+DA is usually better than Leadership, and both have mass fire. Poniatowski requires too much training and Fireproof is just terrible. Geo is not infantry. Poni only has leadership/assault, and Lannes has Mass fire with those two. Outmatched. Poniatowski's not even that good tbh. Overrated.

I do agree lack of Leadership makes her sad, but we have to cope. She's free, and good. Most of those IAPs don't offer anything superior to her other than just Leadership, anyways. You can just use Rowland from tier-1 pool if you need leadership too badly.

4*

I like Victoria. If the final four general lineup is Isabella, Lan, Sakurako, and Victoria + items, you will be covered in any situation, even without using generals to train them. A lot of scenarios are naval and having Victoria's 4 stars plus two propellers or two +2 attack items is very helpful.