Stuck once again

I went back an try the campaign last night coz I'd already forgot about the mission. It's definitely a hard one if you don't have good generals. Last night, I used 4 of my weaker generals, Maria, Kate, Fatima, and Sakurako (most of them have 2 stars on the units they command) in this campaign so my strategy won't be biased with powerful generals and I barely finished it on the 16th round.

- First, you need to focus on capture Stuttgart and Dresden.
- I used Marmont, one of my generals, and infantries around there to attack Stuttgart.
- Murat and Napoleon attack Dresden. You may wait for those in Paris to join force before pressing forward if you are not confident.
- MacDonald can be on either Stuttgart or Dresden front as you see fit. Both fronts are near anyway.
- Upgrade Leipzig to either at least lv 2 or 3 so you can build Line Infantry to guard the town.
- Early phase, just having one line infantry sitting there is enough. Only need to watch out for Prussian cavalry which can kill and take the town in one round. Leave Berlin alone and stay away from the fort range.
- Stuttgart is not difficult to capture. Once you are done, send those troops to help taking Dresden.
- The Bavarian should be fine defending Munich by themselves so no need to worry.
- Once you capture Dresden, all you have to do is to defend the city. This will be difficult since the Austrian and Russian will be pouring like flood.
- By now the situation at Leipzig should be bad because Blutcher would lead the Prussian there himself. I have Murat go help with the situation. Actually, Murat's main job at Dresden is to destroy the fort there so once he finishes, others can take care the rest and he's free to go to leipzig.
- Having a formation of line infantry sitting in Leipzig is really helpful here. An important thing is that if you see his health is low and not likely to survive the next round, move him out and build a new one to avoid the city being captured by cavalry or being circled.
- Artillery and, especially, rocket launcher are very useful for taking out Prussian forces attacking Leipzig.
- By around round 12, Bennigsen will come out to attack Dresden. The worse thing is a horde of Austrian artillery. But what you really need to do at this point is just to defeat Blutcher and Bennigsen. You can spam artillery from the industry near Dresden to focus fire on Bennigsen given that you have some troops to cover them up.

I personally do not think that strategy would be much help here because the difference in numbers is vast. But good luck anyway. 


An alternative strategy is not to defend Leipzig at all. Your troops will be demoralized for a while when the city is captured but you can now focus all of your troops and resources on taking and defend Dresden. Once things are under control, you can send troops to take Leipzig back later. This could be a better option if defending both Leipzig and Dresden is too much. 

I have an issue Ney is not avaliable in this campaign? Why is there a bug when my army move into allies held Bavaria, all the units lose morale?  My current generals I use is L'estocq , Suvorov, Elphinstone, Fatima, Level 4 with snare drum Frederick (confederation of the rhine) they all have items e.g Suvorov Helmet + comfortable boots.
L'estocq level 3 calv with war horse and calvary +4 armour. The main problem I'm posing is Benigsen does not move the whole time even if I took dresden and held it. Austria , Prussia and Swedes all bunch into eachother. Also I made sure Napoleon Held onto Leipzig, when I used him I made into level 3 building with Level 1 infantry installed. Give me a strategy on how I encircle and KILL the allies.

Ok, I've been able to do it. I used Sulkowski (little use), Golitsyn, Berthier, Sophia, Isabela, and Kate. I used my southern army except MacDonald against Würtenberg while sending MacDonald and the rest of my army except Napoléon against Dresden. Napoleon was in Leipzig to hold it. Capture Würtemberg and then send them to Dresden to play defensive with more units being recruited. The navy moves around Denmark and attacks the Swedish and Russian forces. Blücher will come at one time, use artillery and then cavalry against him. 

I took out Merveldt in one turn with my cav and artillery. Use most of yor army in Dresden, the enym will ignore Leipzig and go for your big army. Benningsen moves around turn 11 and was in firing range at turn 14 in which I also won with 5 stars

Try Lannes' strategy. I find it works better

I replayed this with no generals and finished in 15 turns. Here's how I did it:
Split your forces in two; Marmont and Macdonald with the troops near them to attack Wurtemberg, Napoleon and Murat besiege Dresden. Something like this:


Leipzig will be defended by line infantry/militia. It's usually attacked by regular Prussian troops, so don't worry. Use Marmont or your rocket artillery if a general attacks. Your reserves in Amsterdam go to Dresden.

Right, that's the force disposition, now now the battleplan. Simply, attack weaker nations (Saxony and Wurtemberg), put a solid line of defense through Dresden and defend against Russia, Prussia, and Austria there. Commit all your generals to Dresden. Weaken Merveldt and Klenau with artillery until Blücher and Bennigsen come. When they come, divert all your forces against them.

Tips.
-You must be able to read the situation effectively and deploy your reserve accordingly.
-Ignore the Wurtemberg fort.
-Use the armory next to Dresden to spam heavy art.
-Do not attack Prussia, Russia and Austria. Just defend, defend, defend.
-Should the enemy launch an onslaught on Leipzig, divert Marmont and your artillery there.
-Do not support Poniatowski. His job is to hold off Austro-Russian forces.
-Upgrade Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Dresden armory. Dresden is optional.
-In my playtrough, Wrede (the Bavarian general) got charged and demoralized. Should that happen, support Bavaria with some regular troops.




Turn 3.


Bennigsen died in turn 15.

Laurent, i have tried your strategy, even with my own generals included, and all that happens is the general from sweden comes down and makes life hell for me, and he is assisted by klenau and merveldt . I was able to defeat blucher, but when bennigsen came, i got him half -down but by then i was getting overrun, on both liepzig and dresden, i will try your strategy now lannes, and post if it succeced