Generals

[iceboy]

Do Generals do any good unless they are in a Div, Corps, Army? Is there any point in putting them in with independent units?

For instance what do you do with all those first no face generals the Confederacy gets right away?

[Spharv2]

Yes, they'll provide leadership to any stack they're in. It is however, much improved with the use of HQs. Problem is, there just aren't enough to go around everywhere. I usually keep the ones I don't need in my offensive armies in my garrison positions just in case they have to deal with attacks or raids in the rear areas.

[Pocus]

they provide command points, so this reduce the combat penalty. Do not hesitate to run a second time both tutorials, they are great in explaining these things!

[Adlertag]

Putting generals with independent units provide command points which reduce combat penalty BUT you take the risk not being activated with that force and so have a combat penalty...
To be weighted wisely...

[Hobbes]

But if they don't activate you can always remove them from the stack if you are desperate to perform an aggressive action (always seems a little odd to me this)

[PhilThib]

That's only really a desperate move...