General question

True, but Dobeln has mass fire. Tall boots rectify the former, and the latter isn't as important as it'd normally be precisely because of Mass Fire.

Well I'm only on Eastern Overlord . Berthier is pretty interesting tbh. He's got uber cav skills, but only 1 star. Might be interesting to use him as a cav commander without upgrading him.

I don't think so. They've got him on artillery in campaigns like all the time.

Well, I try to describe it.

The chase for princesses with princesses is possible, but it is a long run (at least for me it was)...

You have to also play campaigns extensively, for ruling years depends on campaign progress, and you can find useful items there.


First one: Europe 1798, GB, no starting generals (I used Sidney from tavern, but even this isn't necessary).
I divided my army and went to France, Spain, and Denmark. The key factor was that I had to disembark with line infantry at the shores of Greece and succeed against Ottomans here. Finished in 60+ turns, got Sophia. No campaign progress at the time.

Then Europe 1798, HRE, generals: Sophia (I made some progress in campaign, and upgraded her artillery stars, as well as get some powder and wheel).
Sophia with Siege Artillery went through France and Spain fortresses and cities like knife through butter. Got Fatimah.
After that, I use previous half-progress save, and used Fatimah from here (cavalry). She wasn't great, but even her was better than no general. After several finishing I find out that nobility range is important for years score, and began with farming (using Chain the Beast scenario). After both princesses went to level 10, I got Maria.
During these conquests, I was finishing HRE campaign.

Then I try to get Kate, which I thought should be also easy: America 1775, U.S., generals: Sophia, Fatimah (cavalry), Maria.
This conquest was probably just blind luck - I finished it very quickly: 22 turns (I managed to bring GB into economy crisis by stealing their farms). Got Kate and Sakurako. I have 400 years ruled Asia.

Again, Europe 1798, HRE, generals: Sophia, Maria, Sakurako. Got Isabela. Then after doing some progress in campaigns, I returned to previous America 1775 "golden" save, and after raising Kate's, Sakurako's, and Isabela's nobility, I went to 550 years ruled Asia and got Lan.

Last, Europe 1798, HRE, generals: Sakurako, Isabela, Lan. Got Victoria, but frankly, this was the most difficult conquest, I tried half a dozen attempts, and have to rely also on allies, which can be incredibly stupid sometimes (during one attempt, Denmark has completely obliterated Sweden for example).

During this time, I was finishing Sun Never Sets campaign. I wanted to finish SNS with Victoria, just for flavor, which I finally managed.


So, this type of chase can be interesting, although longer and more difficult.

I'd opine that Maria is a solid infantry general out of the box with her default movement being a plus, but not worth upgrading to 5* infantry because her output doesn't increase enough to warrant it. I'd suggest spending those medals instead on a Ferguson rifle, which you'll eventually want to have for Victoria.

Sakurako was a serviceable general for me (but I play 6-slots) and can't see her being in anyone's top-4 for long.

Fatimah really is useless isn't she? Her economic benefit was ok in a six-general campaign-field but I farmed her to 74/10 (I'd like to have that 15 minutes of my life back) and was actively experimenting with various combat roles to put her in. She pretty much failed at anything but being 4th string navy.

Fatimah is good at econ, which means she does best in 2* country conquests when you're building your economy

It replaces Econ Master, but not Architecture. I still don't recommend keeping Fatimah until endgame, but she has some redeeming qualities