first general

If you want IAPs, I would recommend someone like Davout. If you're free to play, do any conquest and win and get Sophia, she's a great starter princess and can almost single handily carry you through the early game.

Yeah, not only Sophia, but 7 different princess, each with different skillsets. They are -

1. Sophia (65 Rounds or less/ Years Ruled = 250 or more) - Artillery Princess

2. Fathima (55 - 60 probably) - Economic Princess (Just put her in a city)

3. Maria (50 - 55 rounds probably) - Cavalry Princess (Worst princess, but she's free. Use her until you get others)

4. Kate (Years ruled = 350 or more/Not sure about how many rounds) - Best free naval Princess. Only available in American conquest!!

5. Isabella (Years ruled = 600/ 45 rounds, along with campaign progress and resources collected) - Best artillery Princess/general in the game.

6. Sakurako (Years ruled = 250 in Asia!! along with sufficient campaign progress and resources collected) - A hybrid on everywhere. Not strong as others, but very versatile)

7. Lan (Years ruled = 550 in Asia again!! along with sufficient campaign progress and resources collected) - Best general in the game.

8. Victoria (Years ruled = 850 along with sufficient campaign progress and resources collected) - An inf/navy hybrid. Useful in the last campaigns where there are almost all naval missons.

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Note that the Years ruled is your total score, including campaign progress, resources collected, bonus from your generals (You get more bonus if your generals have higher rank/nobility and more bonus means more score and more score means more Years ruled).

How many years you get depends on your ressources, your campaign progress, your headquarter and how fast you finish a conquest - faster conquests give higher scores.

Rounds and Years have all numbers.

As you can see, there cerain rounds (Red-block: R32, R46, R56, R66, R76 and R101), where you loose additional a lot of years. Finish before a roundbreak and you have a good chance to get princess.

For Asia the calculation is different.

that would be an good idea

thanks, but in your guide you said that you needed to have campaign process, how far do I need to be in my campaign?

It is possible to obtain all princesses without any campaign progress. But my personal recommendation is to reach Austro-Turkish War in HRE scenario to get the Crown, so you can grind for nobility faster.

You could play them multiple times, draft 4 princesses, max out their rank and nobility, and replay for the harder ones. Or just do a really good one and omit the last step.