General / Field Marshal Traits

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So if I promote a General to an Field Marshal, but then use him for one Army Only (What a General could do too), do the Field Marshal Traits still work for him or do they only work when he's used for an Army Group?

[OXKART]

yes but ur exp need to lv up gos way up once there a field marshal

[bubbas]

Originally posted by Searmix:

So if I promote a General to an Field Marshal, but then use him for one Army Only (What a General could do too), do the Field Marshal Traits still work for him or do they only work when he's used for an Army Group?

From the wiki: "They can still be used as generals, but their field marshal traits will be disabled when they aren't commanding an army group."

[andersrlarsen]

Originally posted by Gun-blazing Ronald Reagan:

Originally posted by bubbas:

From the wiki: "They can still be used as generals, but their field marshal traits will be disabled when they aren't commanding an army group."

Field marshals are but almost useless

geez...do you even bother to use them right?

field marshals have some of the best traits possible, where you can increase reinforce rate and recovery rate. both of these are almost cruical if playing smaller countries defending against major countries (think poland or czech vs germany, baltic or finland vs soviet, and many more when playing multiplayer).
not to mention that they also have trait that lower supply demand, which is helpfull when attacking in low infrastucture or you lost air superiority.
they also earn basic traits, which stack with general traits, which may give massive bonuses if you use generals and field marshals correct...

but the fact is that you havent bothered to use their traits correctly, and therefore have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

[andersrlarsen]

Originally posted by bubbas:

Originally posted by Searmix:

So if I promote a General to an Field Marshal, but then use him for one Army Only (What a General could do too), do the Field Marshal Traits still work for him or do they only work when he's used for an Army Group?

From the wiki: "They can still be used as generals, but their field marshal traits will be disabled when they aren't commanding an army group."

they will use traits according to the role they have. general traits when general, field marshal traits when field marshall.
however, basic traits stack on top of each other from both general and field marshal, and counts for ALL divisions under their command.

do however konw that field marshals earn traits and skill slower than generals.
my advise is to use generals under starting field marshals untill they earn Infantry Leader and organizer skill, then promote them to field marshall.
when your "new"generals earn Infantry Leader skill, this will stack with your "new"field marshals trait, which boost your infantry when defending. the orgaizer trait allow you to get Logistics Wizard trait, lowering supply usage by 20% --> more divisions at the front in bad infrastucture.
add this with 2% reinforce rate and 10% recovery rate traits, and either defensive or offensive doctrine.

[bubbas]

Originally posted by andersrlarsen:

however, basic traits stack on top of each other from both general and field marshal, and counts for ALL divisions under their command.

Just to clarify, land commanders (both generals and field marshalls) have a skill level and specialized skills. The skill level gives no direct boni but indirectly gives boni thru the opposing commanders skills are compared and the one with higher skill gets a chance to pick a tactic that counters the lower one.

The specialized skills, attack, defense, logistic and planning for land commanders, do directly affect the units commanded. The general of an army gives full boni from his specialized skills to units under his command.

A field marshall in charge of an army group however, gives only half the boni of his specialized skills but that boni applies to all units commanded by all the generals under his command. He also gives full boni from any of his field marshall traits to those units.

EDIT: fixed typo