Generals - Regroup Selection help/advice

In your four-slot situation, although it will be painful due to the medals spent on him, I'd suggest axing Beresford.

Rationale:

- The greatest impact of generals on game-play is Cavalry, Artillery, Infantry.
- I'm assuming you use Cronstedt for artillery, when you don't have a ship to put him on. An artillery unit is a greater asset than an infantry unit and to option leaving it unmanned is wasting an asset from a movement/survivability perspective, even though Cronstedt is pretty much crap on artillery.
- Beresford has a similar skillset to Blucher, who is traditionally a cavalry general but superior to Beresford on infantry, should you feel compelled to put one of your four generals on infantry.
- Your next step should be to rush for Isabela/Kate. I can imagine a successful rush with a lineup of Blucher/Charles/Sophia, but I can't imagine a successful one in a lineup including Beresford or Cronstedt.
- Having someone with some skill in navy (Cronstedt) is good for early and mid-game.  In late game you need 1 or more generals great on navy.
- On your way to picking up Isabela/Kate, you'll probably get Maria and Fatimah. Maria is no worse than Beresford on infantry (not sure why she has such a bad rap) and Fatimah is the Cronstedt of princesses (pretty damn useless).

Only Blucher is worth developing.  The other three are disposable and will not be able to carry you to end-game.

May be because of Blucher's shining stars ^^!. At first time I play this game i think Poni and Dombrow are suck and Blucher is superb, all because of stars 

Clues are cleverly hidden in my OP.

"Took me forever to find this forum, and it's awesome. Unfortunately, I was four bad-generals into the game."

... and...

"(Side note: I find it really disappointing that some of the very best historical Generals are not crafted for game-value that way. In fact, some are noted to be *worst* - Napoleon, Archduke Charles, Blucher... etc)."

So I was driven by historic reputation, with the mistaken ludicrous assumption that the historically strongest generals would remain so in an historical-context game.

And, in the absence of finding this forum, the framework for skills, terms, and mechanisms are is not exactly would one might consider "useful" from within the game app.

Fortunately, and happily, I did find the forum before I was really heavily overinvested in context-absent choices.

Having large fun catching up though.

"Took me forever to find this forum, and it's awesome. Unfortunately, I was four bad-generals into the game."

... and...

"(Side note: I find it really disappointing that some of the very best historical Generals are not crafted for game-value that way. In fact, some are noted to be *worst* - Napoleon, Archduke Charles, Blucher... etc)."

So I was driven by historic reputation, with the mistaken ludicrous assumption that the historically strongest generals would remain so in an historical-context game.

And, in the absence of finding this forum, the framework for skills, terms, and mechanisms are is not exactly would one might consider "useful" from within the game app.

Fortunately, and happily, I did find the forum before I was really heavily overinvested in context-absent choices.

Having large fun catching up though.[/quote]

You can always restart- that's what I did after getting to HRE with Wrede and finding it impossible to continue.

7 slots? Yeah, I would definitely get rid of Beresford. You should be able to get Isabela with your lineup.
I would say refresh. All those generals are not that good.
Don't regroup Arnold to Fatimah. You're going to have to regroup her at some point too.

Where are you in campaign play, and what levels are your primary generals for rank nobility? Also, you're no longer 4-slot constrained so your situation has changed from the OP.

I think I'm okay. Current Generals - sunk costs:

- Sophia, Dobeln, Blucher, Charles (not Archduke), Beresford, Cronstedt, Arnold (for the purchase/exchange discount - eventually regroup into Fat?)

Currently available:
** Tier 1 - Sokolnicki, Blasius
** Tier 2 - Nenadovic (expensive Arnold), Calder (hybrid - looks good, but I've been fooled before), and Sidney (Naval looks great, lvl 3 infantry with "Sailor" looks occasionally useful for 6-Gen non-naval scenarios?)
** Tier 3 - really don't want to spend for that. I might have for Archduke Charles if he was as game-talented would have been warranted. Too bad some of the heavies don't appear to have been rebalanced after-release. There's not an easy way to hack in our own skills/stats, is there?

I've got one academy respin ready to go. I'm inclined to take a pass on the available roster and respin tier 1.

Advice?

I will want to crash one rostered General. Who into whom first? Beresford into...? Followed by...?

Thanks.

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Like someone said previously, I would refresh, and don't bother buying tier-two generals unless you really want to. The only tier-two generals you should ever buy are Golitsyn, Sulkowski, and/or Berthier. Instead, keep refreshing for Kutaisovs regroup into Sophia and Isabella.