What was your most painful campaign in America for 5 stars?

I don't think Road to hell is underrated.


- I think you meant ‘not overrated’, but alright. I still am not convinced by your comment though. It definitely is overrated.

You have very meager forces in comparison to a relative enemy horde which is well armed.

- That is true… but you get a siege artillery! You can equip Sophia (can get her on literally any conquest) on it and get insane damage against units in buildings, such as Drouot and Exelmanns. You can even obliterate those two large fortresses up at paris very easily.

- The ‘well-armed’ enemies are divided into many small groups. You can defeat them one by one. You know the Trafalgar concept, where you defeat enemies group by group? (Not all enemies move to attack you at the same time from the start) Utilize the same concept, but in a bit more advanced context.

- If you’re lucky, you even got Marmont in rocket conveniently attacking the fearsome Archduke Karl of Austrian front for us, depleting his HP!

- Gazan is pretty weak tbh, lure him to Nantes and surround him for morale drop with your cav gen and Dearborn. Same thing for his little cronies.

- After Gazan and Drouot’s elimination, target Exlemanns and Sebastiani quickly. They don’t move for a long time, but when they eventually do, they will annoy you.

- Eliminate Soult by surround-pounding + Sophia. Pretty easy to do. Try not to attack much with your generals, as you want to preserve their HP for fighting the Archduke.

- Blasius is also artillery pounding with surrounding. Austria mass producing artillery is annoying, but you can easily diverge their attention by building small forts.

I never really perfect cleared road to hell or March on Britain either...actually, none of the alternate storyline missions.

- Tell me, who are your generals? You better have Lan, Isabella, Sophia with at least 4 stars on their main categories. That is more than enough to beat the entirety of the American campaign fully in 5 stars.


Peninsular landings was fun at least. You were provided with good units,
- Yes I agree, though sadly I never got to utilize the machine gun properly due to me not having a fourth general yet (planning for victoria after fully maximg stars on my Lan, Sophia, Isabella. I already unlocked Victoria a long time ago so I can employ her anytime I want to.)

but I don't like the naval part of March to Britain.
- I totally agree with that. I see absolutely no point in it, easytech just wants to annoy the users into paying for slots and tier3 gens. Easytech probably intended the stage for 4 gens (1 each for cav/inf/art/navy), but sadly for easytech, I cleared it 5-stars completely f2p, with only 3 slots.

And I barely passed Great sea warfare too.

- Utilize building coastal forts and Jackson’s 5-star trading, haha. 2 fine arty-gens can guarantee you 4 stars at least. Just a tip, move Jackson around factory above Charleston and Charleston city itself. Maxed factory gets you more total resources than a level 6 city, thus making it more efficient for Jackson to stay there. But you do need to trade often for resources, so you need Jackson at Charleston. Just switch Jackson around them, but keeping Jackson as much as possible in the factory. The extra resources will help you immensely, this campaign is a game of utilizing resources efficiently. Also, a third general with Napoleonic code will also be helpful. Replaceable with Fatimah and her Econ Master I guess.

- I recommend you to never use a naval general, especially if stationed in a port, unless they are powerful enough to withstand a huge amount of damage. They will be surround-pounded to death within a short time.
Usually, I prefer to employ privateers every round as meatshields, and if the privateer survives, it moves out of the port next round to help surround enemy ships and lower morales. (I usually don't attack with those privateers unless the enemies are super-low on HP, as I don't wanna waste a precious resource that can lower enemy morales by moving 3 hexes, and also to give less chances for enemy to gain chevrons and heal up)

- Fort gen can, in theory, obliterate many enemies. You might? Want to invest in a few fort stars? Haha. Your choice. It will be very helpful. Might need to give a few medipacks to the general to sustain the fort. For that reason (medipacks potentially needed), I won't use fort gen.