New General Analysis

Consider what he will do on infantry or cavalry guards, throwing grenades, against forts. The Spy skill gives him a huge bonus here, and Fireproof is a useful land skill when attacking fortresses. And a four star cavalry general with four movement stars is very valuable.


The same can be said for Dearborn - he has FIVE movement stars, which is worth an extra hex on its own on most ground. Get him as a starter or tavern general and you have a very, very powerful instrument even without items.


The thing you have to look at when you're analysing generals is how they perform as starting or tavern generals. In those circumstances you cannot give them attack or defence items (except for whatever they come out with), but their skills and stars are often still useful for something.

Marshal Ney, very nice! Looking forward for your review of Kahia The Great

As a commander on cannons (Royal Marine Artillery?) his economic stars are good for occupying shops in campaign mode and buying items cheaply; as an economic master on cannons, he brings more resources in from those cities. His Sailor skill is good for him on cannons if you are fighting on the Italian coasts (vs. Ottoman, Sicily or Sardinia/Corsica), or pushing into Africa. The only downside to this is that he has no specific artillery skills, which Tier 1 generals like Carteaux and Kutaisov do, and they have as many artillery stars as he does out of the box.

I suppose if you like playing small island nations such as Sardinia, Sicily etc. from time to time, having an economic Admiral/Artillery General hybrid might be a good thing. 

If I guess correctly, it means Save & Load.
EW4 has probably the BEST (& sometimes the worst) save system ever in all ET games. You can create save files & still be able to use Auto-Save.

By abusing this, you can save your progess at ANY player-turn moment, play the game from that moment & do this as much times as possible to get whatever you want to get from actions done right after the saved moment.