General is the most hardest governor of all

[igne]

Why does the civilian initiatives costs more for this governor when the military initiatives are the same? For me it doesnt make any difference if you can make soldiers from the start, coalition soldiers are always quickly deployed on the battlefield. National soldiers deployment time is the same as other governors.
Other than that small benefit, which allows you to build soldiers from start, i dont see a reason why the civilian initiatives are supposed to cost more.
The garrison at the beginning of the game becomes useless if the insurgents are not near it to encircle them.
For the tank commander, i can understand why civilian initiatives cost more, since you can deploy tanks, but the general doesnt have anything special to deal with insurgents at the very beginning.

[DukeOfLight]

try tank commander

[S🅰]

try tank commander

[igne]

try tank commander

[noquackjsc]

try tank commander

[bfgmetalhead [UK]]

try tank commander

[Dogmeat]

General was my 1st Brutal Scenario Governor who actually survived to old age

Mr tankie sounds like a fun challenge

[thebadman]

At first general seemed bad to me too, but you can get intel and start rolling initiatives in bunch of cities and rural areas very fast if you start scouting right away and buy 1st upgrade, earlier national troops are nice too.

[Dogmeat]

The General has a good chance with early recruitment to find and nail the Rebel base that is on map beginning of game an breeding little rebels. Nailing this early will give you a much smoother time early on.

Early recon especially is remote areas speeds up your combat deployment later and can find that above mentioned base

Plus using your military units to build and gain support in key areas is a good way to target where you want to develop fast

my 2 shekels on the General

[igne]

引用自 Dogmeat：

The General has a good chance with early recruitment to find and nail the Rebel base that is on map beginning of game an breeding little rebels. Nailing this early will give you a much smoother time early on.

Early recon especially is remote areas speeds up your combat deployment later and can find that above mentioned base

Plus using your military units to build and gain support in key areas is a good way to target where you want to develop fast

my 2 shekels on the General

You mean to deploy a couple or all coalition soldiers at the beginning of the game just to scout for a rebel base? But then:

1) Where are the money for national soldiers and for building garrisons?

2) Where are the money for government initiatives such as anti corruption and propaganda?

3) Where are the money for civilian initiatives including those events such as giving pesticides for the farmers, building museums, universities or hotels, or giving basic or extensive aid to a region after a catastrophe?

Not to mention that you need to upgrade most of these after short period especially the garrisons to give more support or national soldiers.

The specialty that the general have (to deploy soldiers at the beginning + plus to have a random garrison) doesn't add up very much to me if the costs for the military are the same as other governors and you have bigger cost for civilian initiatives, yet he is a strong advocate for military solutions. At least there should be something special in the military branch like: less cooldown for deployment for national soldiers, have them upgraded at start with underbarrel attachments and artillery or to have the basic upgrades at start that gives strength to them, have stronger coalition forces, make the coalition or national soldiers cheaper etc. Every other governor has something special from these, but the general not. He is the same as the civil servant with just 3 differences- you can deploy soldiers at start, you have random garrison and you have 2+ upgrades for the national soldiers, which i don't see them useful as much.

[thebadman]

Get anti-corruption 1 and less corruption from initiatives, call international army for scouting and start training nationals. Do some initiatives and and goverment when your inflation is 5-7%, get 1st military upgrade for scouting.

After that dealing with insurgents should not be hard at all.

[Dogmeat]

引用自 Hodnik：

You mean to deploy a couple or all coalition soldiers at the beginning of the game just to scout for a rebel base? But then:

1) Where are the money for national soldiers and for building garrisons?

2) Where are the money for government initiatives such as anti corruption and propaganda?

3) Where are the money for civilian initiatives including those events such as giving pesticides for the farmers, building museums, universities or hotels, or giving basic or extensive aid to a region after a catastrophe?

Well they don"t call him the general for nothing :)

Getting a military unit early is unique and does have numerous tactics to explore
Economy will lag but u just spend very frugally at targeted needs.

Sure you might not develop a nice peaceful happy community quite as fast .... but hell them rebels aint gonna suck much reputation when they are getting contained in some un-populated hole

If u Recon remote spots early and then when u start building garrisons the first choice usually will be that spot your troops are troops at - setting up a strategic spot is good

Starting with a bonus garrison and then building 1 or 2 more before the insurgency even starts is a kinda snazzy abillty of the General to experiment with

U set then to improve local support & bingo the new party slogan is we got guns who needs water toilets and stuff like that

Plus now you have a solid network to contain those early insurgents with just 1 coalition and 1 national unit.
Its then when most governors are snowed under by insurgents the General can devote a bit more cash to needed infrastructures

Ultimately each governor plays different as does each player i guess

This tactic was just my formula for my first success on Brutal an twas with the General

,,,and of course like any Rebel Inc session it can all go ball up real fast too

[sleeper]

Maybe make military cheaper and give a bonus in training speed as well as garrison build speed.

[Dogmeat]

for me he is one of the better Govs - guess it depends on playstyle abit

[Eversor Assassin #2456]

Well the general does have two additional upgrades to improve the national soldiers significantly without needing to get train national soldier 3 to get access to the other ones.

[igne]

引用自 Sgtsmith501：

Well the general does have two additional upgrades to improve the national soldiers significantly without needing to get train national soldier 3 to get access to the other ones.

Still not cheap and doesnt make soldiers any better if you take it from the beginning. With those 2 upgrades i sent one national soldier and its not even winning against one group of insurgents and even allows that group of insurgents to go and take another region nearby. So its a waste of money. If it was somewhat cheaper, it would be ok.