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What is the use of major general... why not upgrade all your generals from the start and make them field marshal? Is there any negative effect in promoting them? It is more organized imo to have 1 leader for a lot of troops... Also, is there any negative effect in having a Field Marshal command 1 division (since they are meant to command 12)?
 
their skills decrease when you promote.
also the lower their rank the faster they gain xp
 
Every manual promotion costs a skill level, so that can hurt sometimes.

FMs can still command plenty of troops. Command limit is for all units involved in an attack from a single province. So, you can have a HQ by itself, command 4 three division corps of infantry in an assault and be just fine on command limits. You just have to be careful to use synch arrival, or the HQ will arrive ahead of everyone else and generally gets whacked by an AI counterattack.
 
ecnan02 said:
Every manual promotion costs a skill level, so that can hurt sometimes.

FMs can still command plenty of troops. Command limit is for all units involved in an attack from a single province. So, you can have a HQ by itself, command 4 three division corps of infantry in an assault and be just fine on command limits. You just have to be careful to use synch arrival, or the HQ will arrive ahead of everyone else and generally gets whacked by an AI counterattack.
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I thought skill level just showed how many times you can promote a leader. Does it also determine how effective they are in battle?
 
Yes, the higher the better. That's why Guderian is rated higher than say, Himmler.

Also, turn on auto-promote on the leader screen. The computer has an algorithm based on the size of your army for how many FMs, Generals, LTGs, MGs you should have. As your army grows, the computer will auto-promote leaders to make sure you have the right density. Also, auto-promote does NOT cost a skill level. Very nice.
 
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