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Post by stoic on Aug 19, 2021 18:00:00 GMT
I am almost sure they will add more battles. Hard to say how many of them will be naval battles, but there's a chance... I am toying with the idea of hiring two cheap admirals like Pound/King or King/Spruance instead of Nimitz though. I am assuming you are thinking about getting these generals for Elite Battles and not 1945. In this case, I would definitely avoid getting Pound/King/Spruance because Ozawa outclasses all of them, Riccardi is about the same powerful and Cunningham is only slightly worse. Those 400 medals could be used to save for a general like Nimitz or to buy Halsey who is actually useful because the only better air generals are Dowding and Yamamoto/Kesselring. If I have Doenitz (and I am planning to) I really don't need another Admiral with aura. In this case crowd tactics might work quite well. One tanky admiral (Doenitz) and a bunch of free and cheap admirals who can be easily sacrificed when needed. I will call my navy team the "Expendables"  I am almost sure that 2-3 cheap admirals will do more good (together with Doenitz and free admirals) than Nimitz. |
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Post by randomperson on Aug 19, 2021 21:25:40 GMT
I am assuming you are thinking about getting these generals for Elite Battles and not 1945. In this case, I would definitely avoid getting Pound/King/Spruance because Ozawa outclasses all of them, Riccardi is about the same powerful and Cunningham is only slightly worse. Those 400 medals could be used to save for a general like Nimitz or to buy Halsey who is actually useful because the only better air generals are Dowding and Yamamoto/Kesselring. If I have Doenitz (and I am planning to) I really don't need another Admiral with aura. In this case crowd tactics might work quite well. One tanky admiral (Doenitz) and a bunch of free and cheap admirals who can be easily sacrificed when needed. I will call my navy team the "Expendables" I am almost sure that 2-3 cheap admirals will do more good (together with Doenitz and free admirals) than Nimitz. Yes I agree that with Donitz you don't need Nimitz, but in that case you can just use the medals for other generals like Nagumo or some land gen. With all the free admirals, that's already 4 navies and I think that is enough. Getting 2-3 more cheap admirals is too many and will just waste your general slots. We get 8 slots for each elite battle and at least so far, you will want at least 1-2 infantries (preferably 2-3) and 1-2 carrier gens. You will also want 1 artillery for all of the current navy elite battles (Coral Sea and Midway at least, no one knows about the future ones if they will come). This leaves ~4 slots left which can be filled with Donitz+the free gens. Also, remember that you can promote the free gens to 3 stars while the cheap 200 medal gens can only go to 1 or 2 stars, further lowering their value. |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 2:23:32 GMT
If I have Doenitz (and I am planning to) I really don't need another Admiral with aura. In this case crowd tactics might work quite well. One tanky admiral (Doenitz) and a bunch of free and cheap admirals who can be easily sacrificed when needed. I will call my navy team the "Expendables" I am almost sure that 2-3 cheap admirals will do more good (together with Doenitz and free admirals) than Nimitz. Yes I agree that with Donitz you don't need Nimitz, but in that case you can just use the medals for other generals like Nagumo or some land gen. With all the free admirals, that's already 4 navies and I think that is enough. Getting 2-3 more cheap admirals is too many and will just waste your general slots. We get 8 slots for each elite battle and at least so far, you will want at least 1-2 infantries (preferably 2-3) and 1-2 carrier gens. You will also want 1 artillery for all of the current navy elite battles (Coral Sea and Midway at least, no one knows about the future ones if they will come). This leaves ~4 slots left which can be filled with Donitz+the free gens. Also, remember that you can promote the free gens to 3 stars while the cheap 200 medal gens can only go to 1 or 2 stars, further lowering their value. My suspicion that I will complete the game before promoting majority of my generals anyway. It is a nice tool to increase survivability of main damage dealers, that's all. If you are not a king of grinding yuanzhong you simply can't promote all of your generals In any case I won't make any decision before absolutely sure that it may have a practical value. If there's another way to beat those naval battles I will look for it before buying generals. |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 2:24:59 GMT
Anyway, I completed Allied 1942 Pacific campaigns and have enough funds to hire a couple of generals.  The first one is Kuribayashi. I really hope he will be a decent substitute for Yamashita. We have to use him differently than Yamashita, but the guy definitely has potential. And he might be even a better damage dealer than Yamashita.  And the second one is Doenitz. In my opinion the best Admiral in GoG3.  My next two targets are Badoglio and Rommel. And then my Axis team is almost done (I will only buy Kesselring later just to have Air strikes as a tactical tool at my disposal). |
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Post by randomperson on Aug 20, 2021 4:09:04 GMT
Anyway, I completed Allied 1942 Pacific campaigns and have enough funds to hire a couple of generals. The first one is Kuribayashi. I really hope he will be a decent substitute for Yamashita. We have to use him differently than Yamashita, but the guy definitely has potential. And he might be even a better damage dealer than Yamashita. And the second one is Doenitz. In my opinion the best Admiral in GoG3. My next two targets are Badoglio and Rommel. And then my Axis team is almost done (I will only buy Kesselring later just to have Air strikes as a tactical tool at my disposal). Nice! Although I am quite confused about your choice of Donitz. There are only 2 mostly navy elite battles, and you just completed 1942 (unless you hired Donitz in the middle of 1942). |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 5:15:36 GMT
Anyway, I completed Allied 1942 Pacific campaigns and have enough funds to hire a couple of generals. The first one is Kuribayashi. I really hope he will be a decent substitute for Yamashita. We have to use him differently than Yamashita, but the guy definitely has potential. And he might be even a better damage dealer than Yamashita. And the second one is Doenitz. In my opinion the best Admiral in GoG3. My next two targets are Badoglio and Rommel. And then my Axis team is almost done (I will only buy Kesselring later just to have Air strikes as a tactical tool at my disposal). Nice! Although I am quite confused about your choice of Donitz. There are only 2 mostly navy elite battles, and you just completed 1942 (unless you hired Donitz in the middle of 1942). No, I completed Allied campaigns. I haven't played yet Axis campaigns in Pacific. Now I am planning to complete all 1942 Pacific campaigns and North African campaigns as Axis powers. Then I will turn my attention to Allies again. I usually prefer to concentrate all efforts on one side rather than to divide attention between them. |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 5:44:54 GMT
I fully upgraded Katyusha. It is my second fully upgraded SF after KV6.  Now it's time to upgrade Axis vehicles: Maus, Elephant and Panther. |
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Post by randomperson on Aug 20, 2021 15:04:34 GMT
Nice! Although I am quite confused about your choice of Donitz. There are only 2 mostly navy elite battles, and you just completed 1942 (unless you hired Donitz in the middle of 1942). No, I completed Allied campaigns. I haven't played yet Axis campaigns in Pacific. Now I am planning to complete all 1942 Pacific campaigns and North African campaigns as Axis powers. Then I will turn my attention to Allies again. I usually prefer to concentrate all efforts on one side rather than to divide attention between them. Ah okay. That makes sense. It's a good decision because some of the Axis star missions are quite hard without him. |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 15:14:28 GMT
Btw, I am really impressed with Kuribayashi. His performance is much better than I expected. It is too early to judge, of course, but he's definitely hitting hard.
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Post by randomperson on Aug 20, 2021 16:14:19 GMT
Well I failed my first attempt at Coral Sea with only the free navies. I think it could be possible if I played more optimally, but it would certainly be very difficult.
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Post by randomperson on Aug 20, 2021 16:18:23 GMT
Well I failed my first attempt at Coral Sea with only the free navies. I think it could be possible if I played more optimally, but it would certainly be very difficult. Also I don't have stars on any of them so that could be an option too. Still, once you give stars you can't remove them so I don't really want to. |
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Post by stoic on Aug 20, 2021 20:52:37 GMT
Meantime I fully upgraded my first technology. No surprises, it is armoured warfare. Coupled with fully upgraded KV6 it is my best trump in all modes of the game - campaigns, challenges, united front etc.  |
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Post by stoic on Aug 21, 2021 9:05:48 GMT
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Post by stoic on Aug 21, 2021 14:21:12 GMT
Rommel is in the bag  |
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Post by stoic on Aug 22, 2021 12:49:50 GMT
Heavy tanks are very expensive and therefore difficult to upgrade, but they are keys to success in many missions. I know some players don't like T28, because it doesn't do much. But a heavy tank is a heavy tank. And this one specifically is very good for Vatutin. T28 is a fast vehicle, so Vatutin's lack of speed is somewhat compensated.  |
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I am almost sure that 2-3 cheap admirals will do more good (together with Doenitz and free admirals) than Nimitz. 
