General question

Scharnhorst. Don't count IAP generals and princess, he is the best

Compare between Kutaisov and Scharnhorst can be shorten by 1 ask: you have 6 or 4 slots?.
6 slots: Definitely Scharnhorst since he will be used until late game, even after getting Isabela. Your line will be: a cav gen(Dumo,Sulkowski,Raevsky...),Sophia,Scharnhorst, Isabela and others. His >900 medals cost won't be wasted.
4 slots:Kutaisov. Because 1 slot for cav, 1 for art, 1 for trainer and the last cav/art depends. Since your 1st art 90% is Sophia, then you shouldn't spend 900 medals for the one who will be gone IMMEDIATELY after Isabela come. Kutaisov then is better, around 450 only, hence can be gone anytime

Well, I personally a fan of art gens, and I have purchased about 10 slots So slots aren't my problem. In American revolution, I remember using Sophia, Isabela, Scharnhorst, Kutaisov- all art gens I have and it was incredibly fun with me: swaping Snare drum+ gunpowder between gens and blow off everything. IMO, maybe for 4-5 slots Scharnhorst isn't needed, but from >6 he is good

The thing to bear in mind, though, is that unless you're playing for fun or a medal grind, your artillery generals need an escort of some kind - not for protection, but to be able to have someone who can enter the city in the same turn as you destroy its defenders. If two are working together, one can destroy and the other can occupy - but even then ideally you want someone who is either free to move, or who can kill and move if two artillerists are not enough. Thus cavalry are preferable to infantry, especially on a difficult target, as you can park them just outside the city, hit them with the artillery, and then finish them off with the cavalry & move to occupy instead of wasting time on save/reload.

As she currently stands in my armoury, Sophia is 3* artillery and with no items is occasionally capable of one-shot 100-HP kills on coastal guns with rocket artillery. This makes me wonder if the troop-carrier item might not be a worthwhile purchase in some circumstances, especially if you put her up to four or five stars and give her a double rocket battery so there is no return fire. That complex of coastal artillery and heavy fort off the southeast coast of Spain comes to mind as a potential target for this sort of setup.


It is also reminiscent of some of the landing craft at D-Day, which were IIRC set up to fire the artillery they were carrying in so they could provide inbuilt fire support to the landings as they approached (on a "drench the beaches with fire and hope it hits something" level) and then (unlike a warship) take those guns ashore for use inland.

I have questions with opening more than 7 slots in total - six is as many generals as you can ever have in the field at once, plus a seventh slot for whatever trainer you're buying and then regrouping. The extras only seem worthwhile if you want to have a broad selection of generals to plop down into a situation to suit the circumstances, or (and this can overlap with that) you get sentimental over your princesses and don't want to let any of them go. That being said, I'm strongly considering it because at $1.00 a slot (plus exchange rates), that's far less than I've spent on some other games and unlike coughing up for medals, it'd be a one-off purchase that would provide vastly improved possibilities. 

Maria is literally trash- a waste of a slot. So is Fatimah tbh.

I don't think calling Fatimah, a commonly used princess, trash is "Fair" perhaps you meant TBH? Honest? 

I don't plan on using Fatima to be fair, and Maria IS trash. 

Like your profile picture BTW. 

Good catch, autocorrect is a piece of work. Thanks