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Just fired up FOF - can't find information on how to assign generals. Am I missing it in the manual? Sorry if so.
Appreciate help for a newbie.
Thanks,
Lew

Hi I am new as well and really struggling to learn this game

You might want to read this two thread

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For you question - the answer directly paste from the thread above

I don´t know how to dispatch the few generals, how to involve the new brigades

Im making an assumption here and please correct me if im wrong. I know when i started playing the predecessor to FoF, Crown of Glory that it toke me a few to get the hang of the container system the game uses. I get the feeling u havent done that yet. Again if im wrong let me know.

Basicly generals and all other units need to go into containers. A container is a fleet, at sea or a Division, corps and army at land. So what u need to do to generals and new brigaes is when u have them selected you need to left click them into the containers.
U can open and review containers by right clicking on them.


Cheers

Exactly. The key thing is that generals first have to be moved to the province the "container" is in (if they're not already there). Then just click on the general (or CTRL-leftclick on multiple generals) to select, and when you move the mouse arrow over the container you'll get a big, fat, white down-arrow that lets you know that if you unclick you'll be placing the generals inside.

As explained in the manual, an army can only be commanded by a 4-star, corps by a 3-star, and division by a 2-star. The game knows this, so if you put a 2-star in an army it will assign him to a division automatically, and you can then move him around further. What I usually do instead is right-click on a province, which opens up into an "attachment box" EVERYTHING you control in that province, making it easier to assign generals where I want with just one click instead of two. This is useful, for example, if I have a specific idea about which division I want to put a specific general in, instead of letting the game decide for me (e.g., if I have a general with a cavalry rating and just one cavalry unit in my army, I want to make sure the general ends up in the same division as the unit).

lew : you have to pratice on the " container " system and it takes a while to do it

Run through the tutorial , play a bit , read the some section of the manual and play a bit / run tutorial again n read through another section of the manual

You need to be patience to get over the initial confusion/awkward interface or else you will give up without even firing the first shot , just like me when I first got the game ...

The latest patch has bring some improvement to the game  ,  so make sure you patch it up

Cheers