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Post by STILETT0 on May 7, 2021 22:02:37 GMT
Napoleon's side is OP in 1809, so I thought, "why not try Poland?" I have been playing mainly defensive in the East and West, while attacking the isolated Prussians, and weak Russians to the north of me with Poniatowski and Dombrowski. Any tips?
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Post by ππ³π°π΅π΄π¬πΊ on May 8, 2021 2:45:48 GMT
Napoleon's side is OP in 1809, so I thought, "why not try Poland?" I have been playing mainly defensive in the East and West, while attacking the isolated Prussians, and weak Russians to the north of me with Poniatowski and Dombrowski. Any tips? ... And Sulkovski - he can take out York at the stable close to Danzig. I just finished it. Great generals! Great cavalary and heavy artillery, line and guards infantry units. A very weak economy. I used Fatima to start up. My resumee: Send early a general to Iberia, and two to britain. The french need help! Russia is relative quickly done. I got without problems Munich and Francoforte from Rhine, but for this reason, it took ages untill Rhine could bring his troops in the water. I keept my spot, but they where blocking the access to the chanel. This can become a problem. A nice conquest. |
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Post by John Marston on May 8, 2021 12:55:49 GMT
Napoleon's side is OP in 1809, so I thought, "why not try Poland?" I have been playing mainly defensive in the East and West, while attacking the isolated Prussians, and weak Russians to the north of me with Poniatowski and Dombrowski. Any tips? In a nutshell..., Gather all your light artillery and bombard Barclay (the general at the Polish-Russian Border). In my case, he didn't move an inch, neither attack me. Send Poinatowski for the conquest of Russia. I had only Sophia at that time and she helped a lot. It is possible without her, but having Sophia is great. The west and Southern border and the incoming enemy general can be easily defeated by Dombrowski and Sulkowski and co. Once their forces wear down, rush into Prussia and defeat Austria. There will be spam from Denmark and Sweden. In Russia, make sure to destroy the coastal forts. Capturing St.Petersburg will take time so sending ships there would be great. If possible, send a secondary force to capture Tver, at the eastern edge of the map. Russia will spam a lot of Militia from there. Once Russia, Prussia, Austria and Moldavia are mopped up, rush Dombrowski and Sulkowski to England. My Dombrowski at that stage was weared down by the time he conquered London. So, you could end his conquest there or land him at Portugal. In my conquest, I even sent Poinatowski to England, and Sophia to Spain. But if you don't have Sophia, send Poinatowski there and wrap up the conquest. Was that really in a nutshell?  |
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Post by John Marston on May 8, 2021 12:59:05 GMT
Napoleon's side is OP in 1809, so I thought, "why not try Poland?" I have been playing mainly defensive in the East and West, while attacking the isolated Prussians, and weak Russians to the north of me with Poniatowski and Dombrowski. Any tips? ... And Sulkovski - he can take out York at the stable close to Danzig. I just finished it. Great generals! Great cavalary and heavy artillery, line and guards infantry units. A very weak economy. I used Fatima to start up. My resumee: Send early a general to Iberia, and two to britain. The french need help! Russia is relative quickly done. I got without problems Munich and Francoforte from Rhine, but for this reason, it took ages untill Rhine could bring his troops in the water. I keept my spot, but they where blocking the access to the chanel. This can become a problem. A nice conquest. This is my favourite conquest. Yes, the Rhine and French block the access to England, but once you get a facility there, everything becomes easy. |
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Post by ππ³π°π΅π΄π¬πΊ on May 8, 2021 15:26:05 GMT
... And Sulkovski - he can take out York at the stable close to Danzig. I just finished it. Great generals! Great cavalary and heavy artillery, line and guards infantry units. A very weak economy. I used Fatima to start up. My resumee: Send early a general to Iberia, and two to britain. The french need help! Russia is relative quickly done. I got without problems Munich and Francoforte from Rhine, but for this reason, it took ages untill Rhine could bring his troops in the water. I keept my spot, but they where blocking the access to the chanel. This can become a problem. A nice conquest. This is my favourite conquest. Yes, the Rhine and French block the access to England, but once you get a facility there, everything becomes easy. I send too late generals to Britain and Iberia so I took more than 50 rounds. It is really a nice conquest - with all this super cavalary - I like it. Rhine 1806 was also very much fun I agree. Poland 1809 is nice for the beginner team: I play with Sophia, Fatima, Maria and Diez. I regrouped Arnold into Fatima. With 4β
she can do first trades without loss, this is a great conquest for her. Very usefull, I put her on the single light cavalary at start. Sophia is enough for Russia. I will play it again. |
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Post by John Marston on May 8, 2021 15:29:20 GMT
This is my favourite conquest. Yes, the Rhine and French block the access to England, but once you get a facility there, everything becomes easy. I send too late generals to Britain and Iberia so I took more than 50 rounds. It is really a nice conquest - with all this super cavalary - I like it. Rhine 1806 was also very much fun I agree. Poland 1809 is nice for the beginner team: I play with Sophia, Fatima, Maria and Diez. I regrouped Arnold into Fatima. With 4β
she can do first trades without loss, this is a great conquest for her. Very usefull, I put her on the single light cavalary at start. Sophia is enough for Russia. I will play it again. 50 is too fast for my likes. I took like 90 rounds to complete |
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Post by STILETT0 on May 8, 2021 20:48:43 GMT
I send too late generals to Britain and Iberia so I took more than 50 rounds. It is really a nice conquest - with all this super cavalary - I like it. Rhine 1806 was also very much fun I agree. Poland 1809 is nice for the beginner team: I play with Sophia, Fatima, Maria and Diez. I regrouped Arnold into Fatima. With 4β
she can do first trades without loss, this is a great conquest for her. Very usefull, I put her on the single light cavalary at start. Sophia is enough for Russia. I will play it again. 50 is too fast for my likes. I took like 90 rounds to complete :D I finished HRE '98 67 turns with Galvez. Boy, do I regret buying him. I admire his character irl, and he did help out with Return to The Rhine, but he has no health, no skills. Only stars. I would actually like Dombrowski to tell the truth. How do you get the crests to buy him? Besides Arnold, who should I get for no princesses? So I should be attacking, not defending? I usually wait for Barclay to head to Krakow, while I let Yorck and Scharnhorst wear themselves thin on light cavalry spam at Poznan. |
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Post by Erich von Manstein on May 9, 2021 9:55:16 GMT
50 is too fast for my likes. I took like 90 rounds to complete I finished HRE '98 67 turns with Galvez. Boy, do I regret buying him. I admire his character irl, and he did help out with Return to The Rhine, but he has no health, no skills. Only stars. I would actually like Dombrowski to tell the truth. How do you get the crests to buy him? Besides Arnold, who should I get for no princesses? So I should be attacking, not defending? I usually wait for Barclay to head to Krakow, while I let Yorck and Scharnhorst wear themselves thin on light cavalry spam at Poznan. People tend to call those emblems. You have one right away and get one by finishing each of French, Russo-Turkish, and British scenarios. Therefore Dombrowski, along with all generals in his tier, is an IAP. The general consensus is to invest in 2 artillery and 1 cavalry. The choice for last-slotter is disputed mostly between Golitsyn and Victoria, and very occasionally others. For a non-princess/IAP, perhaps only Scharnhorst is the undisputed choice. |
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Post by littlecorporal on May 10, 2021 6:29:00 GMT
50 is too fast for my likes. I took like 90 rounds to complete I finished HRE '98 67 turns with Galvez. Boy, do I regret buying him. I admire his character irl, and he did help out with Return to The Rhine, but he has no health, no skills. Only stars. I would actually like Dombrowski to tell the truth. How do you get the crests to buy him? Besides Arnold, who should I get for no princesses?Β My own experience is that this is the toughest way to win, just generals no Princesses. The medals you spend on generals should be used to buy items. This way works if you are willing to spend real money. Zavresky, Kutaisov, Diez, and Duomoriez are a good team because they are all trainers. |
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Post by John Marston on May 11, 2021 6:14:37 GMT
50 is too fast for my likes. I took like 90 rounds to complete I finished HRE '98 67 turns with Galvez. Boy, do I regret buying him. I admire his character irl, and he did help out with Return to The Rhine, but he has no health, no skills. Only stars. I would actually like Dombrowski to tell the truth. How do you get the crests to buy him? Besides Arnold, who should I get for no princesses? So I should be attacking, not defending? I usually wait for Barclay to head to Krakow, while I let Yorck and Scharnhorst wear themselves thin on light cavalry spam at Poznan. Start using Princesses. They are free and strong, unless you are on a no princess challenge. You start attacking Barclay from the beginning. Put your nearby infantry to support the artillery in case he starts attacking. Make or bring more in case you want to speed up. I don't think he would attack. Yorck and Scharnhorst would be killed by the 3 generals you get for that conquest. Once the generals of Austria and Prussia dies, it becomes easy. |
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Post by ππ³π°π΅π΄π¬πΊ on May 11, 2021 15:48:41 GMT
I finished HRE '98 67 turns with Galvez. Boy, do I regret buying him. I admire his character irl, and he did help out with Return to The Rhine, but he has no health, no skills. Only stars. I would actually like Dombrowski to tell the truth. How do you get the crests to buy him? Besides Arnold, who should I get for no princesses?Β So I should be attacking, not defending? I usually wait for Barclay to head to Krakow, while I let Yorck and Scharnhorst wear themselves thin on light cavalry spam at Poznan. Start using Princesses. They are free and strong, unless you are on a no princess challenge. You start attacking Barclay from the beginning. Put your nearby infantry to support the artillery in case he starts attacking. Make or bring more in case you want to speed up. I don't think he would attack. Yorck and Scharnhorst would be killed by the 3 generals you get for that conquest. Once the generals of Austria and Prussia dies, it becomes easy. No Princess challenge, nice wording. To answer STILETT0, what do you think about Sulkovski? I mean, he is the only one on Heavy cavalary instead Guards, so we don't see his Spy skill! He is Tier2, and a trainer. The only general, apart Arnold or Nenadovic, that I would maybe hire. When I take Berlin and fight Sharnhorst around R12, is Dombrowski in Odessa and Sophia attacking Alexander. Fatima gave Sharnhorst the final strike. I start attacking Kleist in R1 and R3 with Sulkovski, Pointakowski arrives a few rounds later, when the fort is done. Why attacking Barclay ? He has a good defended position without any strategical relevance. I pass him with Dombrowsky twice: on the way to Kiev and on to Odessa . He starts to move in R5 (ΒΏ R6 ?). Flank him and attack him out of trenches - a city gives no shelter against his Siege Master. I move my troops of Lviv south and leave the city undefended, to tear him into this deadly trap. Same with Kutuzov: Sophia passes him sieges Raevsky (he won't move until R25) And then Alexander. Kutuzov left Minsk even undefended, and attacked the small fort I build at the position where the russian fort was before. |
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Post by John Marston on May 12, 2021 6:19:30 GMT
Start using Princesses. They are free and strong, unless you are on a no princess challenge. You start attacking Barclay from the beginning. Put your nearby infantry to support the artillery in case he starts attacking. Make or bring more in case you want to speed up. I don't think he would attack. Yorck and Scharnhorst would be killed by the 3 generals you get for that conquest. Once the generals of Austria and Prussia dies, it becomes easy. No Princess challenge, nice wording. To answer STILETT0 , what do you think about Sulkovski? I mean, he is the only one on Heavy cavalary instead Guards, so we don't see his Spy skill! He is Tier2, and a trainer. The only general, apart Arnold or Nenadovic, that I would maybe hire. When I take Berlin and fight Sharnhorst around R12, is Dombrowski in Odessa and Sophia attacking Alexander. Fatima gave Sharnhorst the final strike. I start attacking Kleist in R1 and R3 with Sulkovski, Pointakowski arrives a few rounds later, when the fort is done. Why attacking Barclay ? He has a good defended position without any strategical relevance. I pass him with Dombrowsky twice: on the way to Kiev and on to Odessa . He starts to move in R5 (ΒΏ R6 ?). Flank him and attack him out of trenches - a city gives no shelter against his Siege Master. I move my troops of Lviv south and leave the city undefended, to tear him into this deadly trap. Same with Kutuzov: Sophia passes him sieges Raevsky (he won't move until R25) And then Alexander. Kutuzov left Minsk even undefended, and attacked the small fort I build at the position where the russian fort was before. Sulkowski is a great general. He is, in a sense, a non-IAP Murat. I didn't use him to crack forts though, so Spy didn't matter much for me. In my conquest, I had only Sophia so I sent Poinatowski with her to Russia. I weakened Barclay with two light artillery and once weakend, I used my infantry to swoop for the kill. I feel that sending your powerful generals from Russia is not good because it will take a long time, once they are done, to recall the generals to battleground. I felt that Sophia was enough for Russia, unnecessarily adding Poinatowski there. Another tip for 1809 is that your allies - France, Italy and Ottoman are a lot more aggresive. The latter two especially spam a lot. |
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Post by ππ³π°π΅π΄π¬πΊ on May 12, 2021 12:34:03 GMT
No Princess challenge, nice wording. To answer STILETT0 , what do you think about Sulkovski? I mean, he is the only one on Heavy cavalary instead Guards, so we don't see his Spy skill! He is Tier2, and a trainer. The only general, apart Arnold or Nenadovic, that I would maybe hire. When I take Berlin and fight Sharnhorst around R12, is Dombrowski in Odessa and Sophia attacking Alexander. Fatima gave Sharnhorst the final strike. I start attacking Kleist in R1 and R3 with Sulkovski, Pointakowski arrives a few rounds later, when the fort is done. Why attacking Barclay ? He has a good defended position without any strategical relevance. I pass him with Dombrowsky twice: on the way to Kiev and on to Odessa . He starts to move in R5 (ΒΏ R6 ?). Flank him and attack him out of trenches - a city gives no shelter against his Siege Master. I move my troops of Lviv south and leave the city undefended, to tear him into this deadly trap. Same with Kutuzov: Sophia passes him sieges Raevsky (he won't move until R25) And then Alexander. Kutuzov left Minsk even undefended, and attacked the small fort I build at the position where the russian fort was before. Sulkowski is a great general. He is, in a sense, a non-IAP Murat. I didn't use him to crack forts though, so Spy didn't matter much for me. In my conquest, I had only Sophia so I sent Poinatowski with her to Russia. I weakened Barclay with two light artillery and once weakend, I used my infantry to swoop for the kill. I feel that sending your powerful generals from Russia is not good because it will take a long time, once they are done, to recall the generals to battleground. I felt that Sophia was enough for Russia, unnecessarily adding Poinatowski there. Another tip for 1809 is that your allies - France, Italy and Ottoman are a lot more aggresive. The latter two especially spam a lot. I send Dombrowski to take south russia, and Sophia for the north. He arrives perfect on time for the Battle of Vienna and Buda from the east. And I send him after to Sardegna. Sophia arrived on british teretorry, but to late to fight the last british remainder. My paths on the replay were much better, but France had a horrible conquest. I could save Napoleon on his last HP with Diez, and Lannes with 25%. As thank they wont move anymore all the conquest. All other generals were lost in Spain, I think. With only Maria and Wreede (from the Pub in Dresden R21) I had to conquer all Spain, Portugal and Moroccow. This took too long for Isabella (R47). Sulkovski is a typical: Why generals have a certain skillset in EW4. He needs Spy to compare his unit disadvantage against forts. Guards cavalary have +50% against forts - and ships! So, Heavy Cavalary + Spy <= Guards Cavalary Immagine him on a top unit (GC or AC). His 2β movement + Saddle and WarHorse = 4 hex, this is perfect. |
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Post by Arya Stark on May 26, 2021 1:14:35 GMT
I have a Poland 1809 going where I turned on as many allies as I could. It's Poland vs the world now   |
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Post by John Marston on May 26, 2021 5:45:44 GMT
We all did this haven't we  |
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