endgame general lineup + skills (full explanation)

I'm still pretty new to the game (started a week ago) but i played other easytech games just speedrunning them and I've read lots of threads on the forum so i know what works + playing efficiently. I've listed below the optimal general lineup + skills, i've explained why i put the skills on each of those generals and why these combination of skills are the best. I also described my gameplay and how i use these generals for speedrunning. If you disagree, feel free to comment. 

For endgame lineup, the best and most efficient lineup would be to have 3 tank generals (guderian, rommel, rokossovsky), 2 artillery generals (konev, leeb), 2 naval (donitz, nimitz), any extra generals like infantry are not worth it, best aircraft gen is yamamato but he isn't worth it because of the price and aircraft defences which makes him do less damage, nimitz is a hybrid so he also works as aircraft gen. 
- You dont need 2 naval gen, 1 is enough. 3 tanks - 2 arty - 1 Naval (Donitz/Nimitz) /1 air gen (Arnold/Dowding), Air gen for scenario that doesn't use Navy. You can also use infantry gen. Nimitz can be air/navy hybrid if you add AF leader/carpet bombing as his 5th skill, his only 5 air stars wont be enough.

Skills:
- I've gone with skills that are best for speedrunning and maximising damage, i dont care too much about survivability because if you do enough damage where you can 1shot targets, you won't take any damage.
- You dont care too much about survivability but you give too much blitzkrieg to your gen, that's contradiction. Blitzkrieg wont work on confused gen, so better put rumor on many gens than blitzkrieg

- You can see from the skills i gave, i thought about the number of certain skills that would be useful to have, e.g. only 3 land (tank + arty) generals need rumour and having any more is unnecessary and inefficient. The best generals to have rumour is 1 tank (guderian) and 2 artillery (konev and leeb) because artillery can hit without retaliation, so hit with konev + leeb first with rumour. 
- 3 rumour gen is not enough, the more rumor gen the better. There's so many high level enemy general that you should confused quickly, so 3 is not enough.

- Aura skills which give damage bonus don't stack so it's important to have only 1 land general with crowd tactics (preferably the weakest in terms of damage output - leeb) and 1 naval general with wolfpack (donitz). 
- Crowd tactics isn't that essential, plus putting your gen side by side will damage them from enemy nuclear splash damage. If you want to put it, put it on Arnold, not Leeb. Arty gen rarely being attacked by enemy gens, and Leeb 5th skill should be Accuracy (He's a wet noodle without accuracy)

- Best unit-specific skills for tank is (armoured assault, panzer leader, blitzkrieg), artillery is (artillery leader, accuracy), navy is (fleet leader, depot ship) - all boost damage and blitzkrieg necessary for tanks - take less damage so stay at higher health + maintain damage output, same with depot ship for navy - heals 
- Depot ship is useless for navy gen, they already have huge hp, plus, if you didn't already know, there's Royal Navy medal that can heal navy gen hp up to 55hp per round (Max Depot Ship only heal +15hp). Best skill for navy after Fleet Leader, Rumor, and Explosive is Sailor.


- Best generic skills include rumour, explosive and plain fighting. Explosive is better than plain fighting because it's important for seiging cities. Always give explosive for tank generals instead of plain fighting because tanks once they destroy city or unit on city can attack again. It's super important you can hit the unit/city twice so you can take them faster. Explosive is amazing for navy as well because ships do high damage against strongholds/cities so this will boost it more. Plain fighting is better for artillery because they can't hit again after destroying enemy/city. 
-Plain fighting for arty is double edged sword, plain tile won't give you damage protection, so better hide your arty in the jungle.

- it's better to have the unit-specific skills before getting any generic, so if you have all specific skills already and you have empty slot, add the generic skill. 

Guderian: armoured assault, panzer leader, blitzkreig, rumour, explosives
Rommel: desert fighting, crossfire, armoured assault, blitzkreig, panzer leader 
Rokossovsky: panzer leader, tide of iron, shelter, armoured assault, blitzkreig 
Konev: artillery leader, raider, accuracy, rumour, plain fighting 
Leeb: artillery leader, plain fighting, rumour, crowd tactics 
Donitz: fleet leader, wolfpack, depot ship, rumour, explosives 
Nimitz: camouflage, ace forces, fleet leader, rumour, depot ship
- Too many blitzkrieg, lack rumor gen, no accuracy for Leeb, too much navy gen, switch Nimitz' depot ship with sailor or air skill, lack air gen or another tank gen for scenario without navy

Gameplay tips for speedrunning:
Most important thing in scenarios and conquest is seiging cities fast and wiping out multiple enemies using tanks at once, For this you need high damage and mobility. There are certain things to remember to do when trying to take a city or clearing waves of enemies.
- You need to make sure you use your artillery and infantry units to lower health of enemy units or units on city/city so when tank hits they will kill it and can hit again.
- Make sure to keep generals and units together so they benefit from aura skill (crowd tactic and wolfpack).
- And all of them will get splashed damage from enemy nukes.


- Before moving your units, think about all the squares/hexes your units can move into so they are in range to attack a target (focus fire).
- Always try to put generals with plain fighting on plain terrain. Look at terrain bonuses, some have -10% or -20% for tanks or artillery so avoid them if you can. 
- Terrain bonus only work on defense, they get damage protection/reduction from enemy attack.


- Make use of aircraft bombing to reduce health of target so tank can finish if you don't have artillery or infantry nearby to do it. I tend to spend most of my money on aircraft rather than spamming units because your generals should be strong enough, you don't need to spam units. 
- Look at unit skills e.g. tanks do extra damage against infantry, motorised infantry deal more damage to armoured units. Ships deal lots of damage to cities + stronghold but less to enemy units. Know who to 
- Most op thing is S/L which i explained in other thread but it takes longer than playing normally, atleast it will garuntee you wins in scenarios or faster speedrun in conquests. It allows you to trigger skills everytime you hit. For tank generals with blitzkreig, panzer leader and rumour, you can hit enemy with fatal damage, demoralise enemy and not get hit in return. 


seems that you took the word "speedrunning" too lightly, this is speedrunning, what's yours?


Go to the european war 6 1914 forums and look at who made guides for a lot of the challenge conquests which are much harder than conquests here. If you played ew6 1914 you would know. 

I agree with some things you said like i forgot to mention accuracy for leeb, that's a must. Maybe 2 navy generals isn't necessary but i don't see how an air general is when in higher levels tanks and cities will have high antiaircraft. I guess a 4th tank general would be an alternative but 3 is also fine.

- The bit about crowd tactics and keeping units together i don't agree with. You will rarely get nuked so the splash damage point is irrelevant.
- The bit about rumour is wrong, when you attack enemy generals, you won't have 2 or 3 fighting you at the same time, you usually have to deal with 1 enemy general and then you move onto the next one so 3 rumour hits is enough for land. Blitzkreig is much better because it allows your general to hit the enemy general & apply rumour without getting damaged back. Also works when are attacking regular enemy units without general like artillery or heavy tanks that hit back. Confusing enemy generals in the process is dangerous without blitzkrieg, so it's more important than rumour. i dont care what people think when they say rumour is the best skill in the game when it's not. It's one of the best, i would argue it's more important for navy. 
- sailor is not good, it only works for counterattack but you can't control when you will get hit, the enemy AI chooses so it's situational. If you choose to have nimitz as well as donitz, nimitz can be given explosive instead of depot ship (i agree it might not be useful but so is sailor). 

With terrain bonus, if it's -20% tank, does that mean you will receive -20% from an enemy tank?

who said that speedrun should break the world records?

No one, but you show a world record and say it's speedrunning.

because our definition of speedrunning here is different.