ranking leaders

[Aryaman]

Could you supply a list of the leaders available in the game with their ranking and statistics? Maybe it would be a good topic to discuss on in the forum

[lordzimoa]

Our first priority now is to go into Beta before X-mas. So far it looks like we are going to make it.

For the Commanders, we don`t have them all in the game, but picked the most important ones and also tried to find a mix of talents and differentiate as much as possible, so we got a nice mix of good and bad attackers, defenders, morale boosters, logistic masters, etc...

The main countries have a selection of Land Commanders, Naval Admirals or Air Aces that will become available over time and due to certain triggers.

Of course we will see discussion why this one is selected and why the other is not... than just blame me...

[Aryaman]

Please, can you give us the list of commanders involved with their statistics? I know that will be a great theme of debate to this forum and give it some more live

[Xerkis]

Of course we will see discussion why this one is selected and why the other is not... than just blame me...

… or praise you

[adherbal]

Not sure if this matches 100% what we currently have in game, but here's a reference list we used at some point:

RUSSIA
Nikolai Yudenich - General
Aleksei Brusilov - General
Alexei Evert - General
Alexander Kolchak - Admiral
Nikolai von Essen - Admiral
Alexei Kazakov - Ace
Vasili Yanchenko - Ace

FRANCE
Joseph Joffre - General
Robert Nivelle - General
Philippe Pétain - General
Ferdinand Foch - General
Dominique-Marie Gauchet - Admiral
Augustin Boue de Lapeyrere - Admiral
Rene Fonck - Ace
Georges Guynemer - Ace

UK
Douglas Haig - General
Sir Edmund Allenby - General
"Jackie" Fisher - Admiral
Henry Jackson - Admiral
John Jellicoe - Admiral
Edward Mannock - Ace
William Bishop OR James McCudden - Ace

AUSTRIA
Conrad von Hötzendorf - General
Arthur Arz von Straussenburg - General
Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin - General
Anton Haus - Admiral
Miklos Horthy de Nagybanya - Admiral
Godwin Brumowski - Ace
Benno Fiala von Fernbrugg - Ace

GERMANY
Erich von Falkenhayn - General
Paul von Hindenburg - General
August von Mackensen - General
Maximilian von Spee - Admiral
Reinhard Scheer - Admiral
Manfred von Richthofen - Ace
Oswald Boelcke - Ace

OTTOMANS
Khalil Pasha - General
Ahmed Izzet Pasha - General
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]

ITALY
Duke Aosta - General
Duke of the Abruzzi - Admiral
Francesco Baracca - Ace
Silvio Scaroni - Ace

USA
John J. Pershing - General
Eddie Rickenbacker - Ace
Hugh Rodman - Admiral

[Xerkis]

Thanks for the list.

Is my assumption correct in that there are different benefits between like leader types? In other words, does one of the “Generals” of the UK give you better offensive stats and one gives you better defensive stats … Or something along those lines.

[adherbal]

Yes, possibly some commanders will even give small penalties if for example they were very poor defenders. These penalties will be overshadowed by other advantages of course, so that such Commanders are still useful under the right conditions.

We are still in the progress of balancing combat stats etc though, so can't give any actual commander bonus stats right now.

[Xerkis]

That sounds real good.

Not everything should be a bonus– there are drawbacks to things too. These are “leaders” not “supermen”.

[Aryaman]

It seems odd that Germany, with several fronts, has less generals than France with only one main front.
Maybe is just an incomplete list, right? because otherwise there would be no leaders available for secundary fronts

[guyqui58]

at start Generalquartiermeister, 2nd army von Bülow in belgium (liege)
then winner tannenberg battle august sept 1914 east front
in 1917 brest litvosk treaty after west front again Generalquartiermeister of Hindenburg until armistice