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Introduction
Generals in Evony are special characters that lead your army into battle, or provide you with buffs. There are 11 main types of Generals:
| General Type: | Description: |
| Mounted PVP | Attacking with mounted troops |
| Ranged PVP | Attacking with ranged troops |
| Ground PVP | Attacking with ground troops |
| Siege PVP | Attacking with siege machines |
| Assistant | Assistant to attacking gens |
| Wall / Defense | Wall defense general (defending keep) |
| Debuff | Debuff gens to be placed on sub cities |
| Duty | Buff buildings within keep |
| Gathering | Gathering extra / faster resources |
| Boss | Attack / Rally bosses |
| Boss Assistant | Compliments boss rallies with benefits |
It is important to fully utilise each type of general in order to play, farm, and kill efficiently.
Evony General Rarities
Generals are split into 7 rarities – Common (Grey), Uncommon (Green), Rare (Blue), Legendary (Purple), Legendary Historic, Epic (Gold), and Epic Historic. Generally, you should only purchase Epic Historic generals – with the exception of Cleopatra, Constance, a couple of other purple Historic generals.
How to Obtain Generals in Evony
Generals can be obtained through a variety of ways:
- Tavern – Recruit Generals using gold through tavern building
- Wheel – Win a general on the wheel of fortune
- Shop – Buy a General Chest from Battlefield building
- Relics – Collect general fragments from relics
- Great General Chest – Open from tavern using key or for free every two days
- Packs – Spend real money to acquire general tokens
Evony General Stats Explained
Generals have four main attributes/stats:
- Leadership – Increases sub city training speed, troop HP, and march speed
- Attack – Increases troop attack
- Defense – Increases troop defense
- Politics – Increases sub city construction and gold production speed, resource gathering speed, and troop death to wounded rate.
These stats increase as you level up and cultivate the general.
How to Increase a Generals Level in Evony
A general can level up and gain experience through a variety of activities, such as PVE (bosses / monsters / sub cities), PVP, or exp books. The best way to level up a general can be found on this guide here.
Cultivating and Ascending a General
A general can be cultivated to have up to 5 stars, the table of requirements for this can be found below.
| General Level: | Star Level: | Gold: | Medals: |
| 5 | 1 | 1 million | 40 |
| 10 | 2 | 2 million | 120 |
| 14 | 3 | 4 million | 300 |
| 18 | 4 | 8 million | 800 |
| 22 | 5 | 15 million | 2,000 |
Passed these five stars, some generals can be ascended. For more information check out this guide here.
All historic generals have a base skill – this is a special skill that is unique to that general. This is what dictates what each general is good for (see the list of 11 types of generals). As you ascend (star level 6-10), more skills/buffs will be unlocked. For information on buffs see here.
Evony General Skill Books
Skill books can be applied to Generals in order to give them further buffs / debuffs. For more information on skill books, and how to apply them efficiently, check out this guide here.
Evony General Specialties
Historic generals also have speciality skills that can be unlocked once they reach level 25. These require gems and runestones in order to teach generals additional skills. There are four specialties for Gold Historic, and three for Purple Historic, that can be levelled up 5 times – Veteran, Master, Expert, Grandmaster, and Genius. This is often hard for free to play players to achieve due to their scarcity outside of packs. They can be won during events, PVP, PVE, and BOG / BOC. For further information, check out this guide here.
Evony Assistant Generals
At level 22, and star level 3, generals unlock the ability to bring a long assistant generals. These generals should compliment the skill set of the primary / main general, however the buffs can not be the same or else only one set of buffs from the speciality skill will be applied. For further information, check out this guide here.
General Equipment
Generals can be given equipment that provides them with buffs and debuffs. For further information check out this guide here.
General Dictionary
To see all the Generals in the game, to filter through them, and search for specific ones, you can check out one of our sites tools:
General Compatibility Tool
Not all General’s are compatible with each other (i.e. the skill of the assistant general is active – this is shown by whether skill is in colour (active) or greyed out (inactive). Check out our tool below where you can enter a General’s name to see relevant assistants for them: