Help on World Conqueror 3

Keeping in mind that you can use only 6 gens at once, it's only a waste of medals, EC can perform very much better than academy gens, esoecially keeping in mind that you already have 3 best academy gens. Btw, 5th and event 4th star is not so worth to buy at the beginning (because of its price), for the same price you can buy other skills, which give better effect.

If you have Manstein, Patton is not worth to keep. Manstein is better for tank. Sure, if you have 6 good gens instead of Patton. Regarding upgrades for EC - depends on situation. Not so bad is to buy each time cheapest available upgrade.

I would make a mediocre tank eye-cover and when he's got like 4 tank stars, sell Patton.

I'd say Patton worths around 5k.

Nope. Just 6 generals in general. I believe what Stierlitz is trying to say, is that you should have your EC built up enough so that whenever you sell Patton, it will equal Patton. That way, you will have 6 good generals.

Depends on preferences. If we just replace unneeded Patton's skills, than yes, it is about 5k medals, but IMO he lacks very much tide of iron and because of that even 4k medals EC with tide of iron is the same as he. I calculated like this:

Price of Patton's clone (excluding infantry and artillery stars, which in fact can be effective only for missions):

5 tank - 2300
3 air - 210
2 navy - 50
3 movement - 340

4 artillery leader - 1120
4 ace forces - 720
3 blitzkrieg - 500
3 explosives - 560
4 street fighting - 1080

Total: 8750

If we replace artillery leader and 4+5 tank stars with plain fighting 3 (we sacrifice approx 14 damage and receive 15, sure, only in plains, but that's not a big problem), we save 2430 medals.
If we replace street fighting 4 with tide of iron 3, we save 450 medals.
If we will use him only in supertanks and don't go in water (before we get enough medals for further upgrades), we can leave only one movement star, saving 310 medals.
If we make him colonel (sacrifice 60 hp), we save 900 medals. Not so good, but IMO for tide of iron it is worth to do it.
Navy and air can also be sacrificed until later time, saving 260 medals.
Sacrificing lv4 of ace forces (leaving lv3) is also not so big problem, saving 380 medals

Such modified Patton costs 4020 medals. IMO he's better just because very often when gen loses some 3/4 of hp (in campaigns), there are still some weak cities around, which are not a problem to capture, but with low damage it takes quite a long time, but tide of iron solves this problem. In conquests it is also important as he can still kill infantry with 1 shot, this way protecting from paraspam.

Sure, depends on situation, and also on the strategy you use. For example, in alien 7 golden I used Vatulin in heavy tank with Vasilevsky to capture Dihua with support of 1 nuke bomb in order to let Chuikov to die. Without ion only Vatulin's tide of iron let me do this as even being marshal he had less than half of hp by the start of 3rd turn, at which I had to capture Dihua. After capturing the city he was barely alive, so 1 movement star was not a problem. May be if I used Patton, I found some another strategy, but IMO tide of iron is must have and that lowers Patton's value.