Generals attached to brigades

[briny_norman]

I've been wondering about this small question.
If I attach a general directly to a brigade - what are the benefits exactly?
If I have a corps with lots of 'spare' generals, would I be better off releasing some brigades from the divisions and attaching generals to them or do I benefit more from keeping the brigades in the divisions and just have the generals 'hang around' the corps?

[Coregonas]

The most senior general adds +5% bonus to ALL his troops (for each ATT/DEFF)

Every attached leader gives also another +3% bonus to his unit (be a brigade single element or division)

The best is having:

The best General the more senior.
And all the other generals attached into this "stack" (be corps or independent group)

[Rafiki]

Every attached leader gives also another +3% bonus to his unit (be a brigade single element or division)

...provided he isn't the stack commander

[Banks6060]

I've been wondering about this small question.
If I attach a general directly to a brigade - what are the benefits exactly?
If I have a corps with lots of 'spare' generals, would I be better off releasing some brigades from the divisions and attaching generals to them or do I benefit more from keeping the brigades in the divisions and just have the generals 'hang around' the corps?

I struggled with this early on too. I think the only real way to go here, IMHO, is to keep the division structure solid and just keep the leaders there for their abilities, otherwise I usually send them off for Garrison duty.

Plus you want to keep them around especially if you get a bunch of 1-star leaders that you want to turn into division commanders in your army. Alot of times you'll get a bunch of really good ones, some of which aren't activated yet...I just place them inside the Corps where they WILL command a division in the future, wait for them to activate, then use them to replace a less capable division commander within that corps...and then send THAT guy off for Garrison duty.

Hope that helps a little bit.

[mikee64]

If you've got a general sitting around "doing nothing", attach him to a brigade and watch what happens to the combat value of the brigade - it immediately goes up. This is even a good use for generals with crappy abilities like Quickly Angered. Just make sure they are subordinate to someone else and you get the benefit of their stats w/o the disadvantage of the trait.

On a somewhat unrelated question: Is there any way to see the potential composition of a unit other than selecting two units and hovering over the grayed out "+" key? What I'm looking for is a way to see the potential composition of a unit if that unit is all alone in a region. I don't think there is a way to do this, is there?

[arsan]

If you've got a general sitting around "doing nothing", attach him to a brigade and watch what happens to the combat value of the brigade - it immediately goes up. This is even a good use for generals with crappy abilities like Quickly Angered. Just make sure they are subordinate to someone else and you get the benefit of their stats w/o the disadvantage of the trait.

On a somewhat unrelated question: Is there any way to see the potential composition of a unit other than selecting two units and hovering over the grayed out "+" key? What I'm looking for is a way to see the potential composition of a unit if that unit is all alone in a region. I don't think there is a way to do this, is there?

i think there isn't leure:

[briny_norman]

If you've got a general sitting around "doing nothing", attach him to a brigade and watch what happens to the combat value of the brigade - it immediately goes up. This is even a good use for generals with crappy abilities like Quickly Angered. Just make sure they are subordinate to someone else and you get the benefit of their stats w/o the disadvantage of the trait.

This is more or less what I'm doing now - but to do this I have to pull the brigade out of its division (I can't put brigades with generals attached to them in divisions) - and I'm just wondering whether the brigades benefit more from having a general attached than from being in a division...?

[Rafiki]

As long as you have the option of doing so (i.e. you are struggling with the division limit and need to build divisions elsewhere, or need to detach the brigades for independent tasks), let the brigades stay in divisions. This will keep your CP costs down, and let more brigades benefit from units abilities, such as sharpshooters

Also note that the brigades do have a general attached when they're in a division.