Most things in Evony are based on a color system. This system is as follows, from lowest value to highest:
1.Gray/White = Lowest Value
2.Green
3.Blue
4.Purple
5.Gold/Orange/Yellow/Red
Historic Generals vs Non-Historic Generals. There are Generals and then there are Historic Generals. There are also Historic Generals, and then there are Epic Historic Generals.
Historic Generals begin as Blue Generals. You know it's historic if the name and picture of the General is a unique name and picture, such as Robin Hood. Epic Historic Generals are designated by a golden helmet icon in the upper left corner of the General's picture frame. These are Generals like Spartacus and Attila.
Here is the basic value system for Generals:
1. Gray/White = Lowest Value
2. Green
3. Blue
4. Purple/Blue Historic
5. Gold/Purple Epic Historic
6. Gold Epic Historic
Tip: Don't waste your money, General skills, gems, best items, and experience on anything below a 4. Generals from 1-3 are trash or backups in case your Sub City generals get captured or killed and you want to throw some monkey on your Sub City so that you get at least some minor buffs to gold production, troop production, etc. from those Sub Cities. Some would even argue that you shouldn't waste anything on 4s either and that you should only ever spend money, General skills, gems, best items and experience on Purple Epic Historic and Gold Epic Historic generals. However, it is far easier to get 4s and 5s above than it is 6s, so when you have a lot of Blue Historics, Golds and Purple Epic Historics, you may have enough to send on all your marches plus put as mayors on your Sub Cities. The higher the level that they are, and the more equipment and buffs you add to them, the better they will be at increasing your Sub City productions and in fighting enemies.
In the Tavern Generals Store, tap on portraits to see all of the Epic Historic Generals…like the Undead King and Undead Earl, King Arthur, among many others. You will also see, there, how much they all cost if they show up in the store. The store refreshes every 4 hours, so keep checking it every 4 hours for new generals if you know you have enough gold to buy a good one. The higher the Tavern Level, the better your chances for better Generals.
If you get a General you don't like, you can sell them. Go into the Main Menu, Generals, and then select the one you want to Dismiss. There is a little red icon in the upper right corner that looks like a red helmeted head. Tap that. It'll tell you how much you can sell your General for. Yes! You get money if you sell a General. Just don't sell your good ones. The price of a General usually tells you just how valuable the General actually is, so you may think they aren't a good General, but if you get lots of money for them then you might want to think twice. Even if you have a lot of Generals, having spares around in case your Generals get captured or killed is always helpful to recovering after being wiped out.
Building Up Generals:
There are 7 things that you can do to build up your general. These are: Experience, Equipment, Enhance, Cultivate and Skills, Relics, Spiritual Beasts and Dragons.
Experience is earned by sending generals out to fight or farm (put them on resource tiles). You also earn General Experience items throughout the game that can be spent on Generals. Tap on the + sign on the General's main screen to use General Experience. The + sign will light up when you have experience to spend.
Equipment is simple enough. Every time you get equipment or you forge one, tap on the slot that is available and select Wear. Remember the color system when equipping items so that you give your best generals the best equipment. You can increase the quality of equipment by spending gold and upgrading the star quality of the item. You can also refine the item so that it provides buffs. Keep refining to change what buffs it gives until you find a set of buffs that match what you want the General to do. (For example, you can refine a piece of armor so that it provides more buffs to Mounted troops for a General that you use all the time to run rallies.)
Enhancing a general is done by selecting Enhance in the General's menu. There is always a level requirement, a Token requirement and a gold requirement. Earn tokens by fighting monsters, buying tokens in the Black Market, Wheel of Fortune, etc. I recommend that you use the level requirement as a guide to Enhancing your Generals. Note: I don't know how true it is, but I have heard that Enhancing your General increases their stats more at each level up. So if you wait to increase your General's level until after you have Enhanced it, once you reach the Level Requirement, you might get extra bonus points to stats that you would not have gotten if you Enhanced after you'd already leveled up. So maybe focus on other generals until you earn enough gold and tokens to Enhance a General once they've reached the required level.
Cultivating a General is interesting. On the main General screen, tap Cultivate. Use gold, not gems. Though some say to use gems, stating that it is more efficient and less costly in the long run, I personally, have not found this to be true. I think it is a waste of gems that could be used elsewhere, and each time you cultivate with gold it asks you if you want to keep the values or not. So with gold, if you don't like a particular value, you just hit Cancel instead of Confirm so that you aren't stuck with a lesser value.
Each time you hit Gold Cultivate you spend Gold and add a bonus value to your General's stats. This bonus remains with your general forever. It is added to your General's base stat for a new total value. Usually you can cultivate up to about +20 before you will start noticing negative values appearing.
BE WISE! Don't necessarily accept the values! You don't have to accept the cultivation. For example, Leadership might get a -1, Attack a +2, Defense a -3 and Politics a +1. Unless my Defense is really high, I can just reject those values by selecting Cancel. You still spend the Gold, but at least you aren't hitting your Defense value with a -3.
Skills are earned throughout the game as random rewards either on the Wheel of Fortune or sometimes dropped during battles or from other items. You can equip a skill to a General by tapping Skills on the General's main screen.
BE WARNED!!! Equipping more than 1 Skill to a general is a risk. Each General has 4 skill slots. When you equip a skill the game will randomly pick which slot that skill will fill. If it picks the slot that another skill already occupies, it will replace that skill. The game will tell you what percentage risk there is of having your skill replaced, so be mindful of that. Also, the game glitches sometimes, I've had it happen, and it may still overwrite a skill even if it says there is a 0% chance. Report that to Customer Service and they may give you items and such for it. Tip: When giving skills to your Generals, plan it out. Equip skills you don't care about as much first. Save the best skills for later. After you've filled up all four skill slots with skills you don't care about as much, then equip the ones you know you want to keep. That way, your General will have four skills and you will, hopefully, not overwrite the best ones with ones you don't care about as much.
As for Relics, Spiritual Beasts and Dragons, we'll discuss those more later. Just know, for now, that these also enhance your Generals, so they are good to have. You equip Relics similarly to skills and Spiritual Beasts and Dragons are almost like equipment. That's a very basic explanation for now, and as I said, we'll discuss more later.
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