Generals - who to buy first?

Me personally, I would get Kutaisov or Dumouriez for their ability of being trainers. They are decent right now, but you can regroup them into stronger generals later. 

Restarting won't help him on his goal to beating the game. He isn't even in that bad of a situation..

EDIT: One way which would be necessary to restart would be if he used lots of medals to upgrade Nobility/rank

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Yep, definitely made that mistake. Once, when I bought Konopka. Never again. Most of his current rank and nobility are from grinding, though. Learned that lesson early.




Nope. If I restart, I lose Sophia. I pulled off an absolute miracle (for a newbie with poor generals) to come in under 70 moves with the right amount of resources. Not going through that again. She stays. I've added about 350 medals in a couple of days with the grind save I've got, and working my way through it is a pleasure. I can do this forever and a day, and having a good general or two under my belt is only going to help more.

The real question is who I get first - I can have Kutaisov now, but between Sophia and Carteaux I have artillery sorted out for the time being, whereas grinding out an extra fifty medals to get Dumouriez is no sweat, and he would have double the stars of my current cavalry general. If I were doing this on a 999-turn platform and heading for a grinding game, I would seriously consider August I - he would save me a lot of money in a long-haul scenario - but economics isn't a high priority right now; I can get him later.

I imagine that when I buy one of them (which ever one I decide to get), he will drop out of the current lineup and another will simply take his place. I hope they don't reshuffle; there's a whole lot of training talent here, even if it's no good for anything except immediate regrouping.

This also begs the question - technically if you ground through enough and bought enough generals over and over, you could boost all the princesses to five stars in everything (inf, cav, art, business), but some of them must have skill sets which make them better choices to be trained in certain areas. Is this summarised and analysed somewhere?

hmm, I don't know Dumouriez, but alot of people like him. I however used kutaisov for much of my play through (on the second last campaign) He is a good artillery general, and if you ever want to part with him, he can train sophia or somebody else.

I think with both Dumo and kutaisov on your academy you are in a good state. I imagine your greatest problem was buying Konokpa. if you have higher tolerance for farming than me you should be fine.

You can tell by their unit-specific skills, if they have any. Sophia has good anybody skills, but she has explosive which is for artillery attack. I currently have kate and sophia, upgraded sophia to 5 artillery stars and grinded to 125 health right now.

Note however that ballistics and mobility basically do nothing for some reason. I'm sure somebody, including me, would be willing to tell you if your choices are wrong. I can at least say what the princesses do best, though I haven't tried most of them.

Update: I did a bit more grinding and got Dumouriez. As already stated, with two generals currently weighted towards artillery and my cavalry a bit on the weak side (noob mistake, as was Carteaux; won't happen again), he was the logical choice.

Only 410 medals to go and then I can get Kutaisov.

I would like to know, purely out of interest, if anyone thinks they could have made a case for August or Graham, and if so why.

August is a Business trainer, but he is unneeded at the moment.
Graham is stupidly overpriced

I am pretty sure there are cheaper trade trainers out there than August. The econ expert is fatimah but i suggest you use trainers on isabela as fatimah isn't a keeper and that noth have three trade stars.

Cavalry and artillery are better than infantry. Though they all have similar output, cavalry is faster and artillery can outrange infantry.
Infantry tactics is a skill that I think raises the minimum damage a bit.