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Artillery positioned by horse and cassion. The artillery moves way to slow compared to how it was positioned in battle initially.

It's too small, the infantry ones obviously are much larger. Some tired eyes don't see things as easily as they used to.

Got about 150 hrs in the game, and I've tried a number of tips and strategy's on the union side. Switched back to fighting with the south, never could get my union troops to hold and it is just to frustrating. I think ypou have more work to do on getting this more balanced before it's final release.,

The union still sucks they just break and run at every confederate charge. Hardly realistic, Union troops have no backbone for the most part.

Even after the latest update the Confederates are still overpowered. The rebels charge and the Yankees break and run even when I have a double rank and excellent artillery support. Laughable to try to maintain a line when the confederates advance.

Can the zoom out go a bit farther and let you see the entire battlefield? Why so much delay between the alert and the units actually arriving? Please give the alerts much closer to when the actual unit arrives.

After I discovered how to use them I discovered the same thing, I can clear every battery off the field with them. Swing them wide on the flanks away from infantry and attack batteries from the flank or rear. I do agree they are pretty powerful if used properly.

David, yes I usually as a new player use balanced for the AI. Perhaps some here will give me a tip, when a unit falls back and regroups should you leave it in that position or move it forward again? If you move it forward how close to the line should it go? I find moving regrouped units forward makes them just fall back again causing endless keystrokes. Like to know what I should be doing.

I've gotten better with this since I now have a understanding of how the game works. Often in the expansive battles you have a lot of arty out in front of the ranks exposed. I'm now pulling them back immediately behind the ranks and am suffering much less packing it in then I was. Having said that it's still a big chore to babysit everyone, I find that certain areas of the battlefield I just have to let the troops do their thing to focus on the other areas. I'd like to see more warnings that might get my attention that I need to be somewhere giving that area attention if I'm not already there. Also am I missing something? When I re-position a arty unit buy pulling it back I have to reaim it manually else it is facing 180 degrees opposite? I never would imagine that a commander would have to tell a unit to reaim itself. So I'm wondering am I doing something wrong here. I'd like to see the position arrow larger when you are zoomed out, for arty units maybe a red arrow easy to see easy to move.

Even after the update, playing the Union side still see's units break far to easily. Union units holding good ground and with superior numbers still brake and run when fronted or charged by even a single Confederate unit. Certain Union units you don't want anywhere near your front line. I just put them in the back now because that is where they will endup anyways. AS I commented the other day far to much babysitting is required of certain units. Please give me brigade and corp commanders that have a stomach and will hold their ground or move to a designated position. Also it is a bit numerous that some units have to fall back to somewhere near Harrisburg before they regroup. If US Grant or Patton where in charge a few of these guys would get a big boot in the butt.

Good Day, I thought that providing the information that you asked for might lead to some solution or a recognition of a problem. This game uses a high level of memory on a machine that in my opinion is going to be typical of alot of machines a player might be using. I do wish I had a high end gaming computer but I don't and Santa doesn't seem to want to give me one. Given I gave you the info please give me a response back. Thank You

I know it can be turned off and on, but I just did a small slice of the new update to keep file size down. Personally I feel if this is how it is supposed to look that many including myself will find this very undesirable. The darkness, haze and especially the out of focus catch my eye.

It's fine with 63%, what it doesn't like is the spikes to 100% you can see on the graph. Playing lower level battles is fine it's the expansive games that I have an issue. My processor is AMD A6-4400M APU wirth Radeon HD Graphics 2.7 GHz. AMD Radeon HD 7520G

Wrote about this before, suggestion was to run the file validation which I have done several times before. The game continues to consume very high levels of CPU and this isn't an entry level machine. How do I get this game to run smoothly without the dropouts and dead buffering periods? AS you can see in the performace chart it just cycles to high levels. I ran file validation right before this and it was 100% fine.

I'm a new person to the game, how does this increased melle damage thing resolve my issue?

Nick no artillery unit would just completely leave the field in the midst of a battle. I had 6 units or more leave the last battle. Your model is incorrect if that is the way it is intended to work. You have units moving off the map after a travel of most of the map. I've seen other comments about the complexity of commanding a large battle over most of the map. You can hardly babysit every unit and every battery and once they start moving you can't stop them.

I could never see myself getting the final version of the game with this problem. EVERY battle you lose units that just have a mind of their own and will travel long distances and leave the map. Other units just go hide under the border somewhere. It produces unrealistic game play and the effort you put into getting your units into the right positions then becomes wasted effort. I've sent in several bug reports, what is your response to this issue??

As an update today Custers detachment disappeared from the field leaving me no Calvary to defend against Stuarts. Basically the bug is very prevalent now with artillery units. I see several batteries leaving the field every battle, it is very annoying. I've sent in several bug reports this really needs to be fixed. There is no way to turn these units once they start to withdrawal and will travel large distances to leave the field while the units that were next to them stay put.

I clicked a bug report yesterday when an artilley unit disappeared from the field in a battle.

I switched over and started playing the union side. I can't believe this is realistic the simplicity in which they just take off. Yesterday for example I had three large brigades against 1 600 man Confederate Brigade, and the three Yankee brigades constantly fell back despite their overwhelming advantage. Spending way too much time and effort in a battle just trying to keep the union troops holding their positions. It takes away from the game enjoyment when your in a large battle and you have to constantly regroup and move to get the troops to maintain their orders. I feel something needs to change it is just far to easy right now to get them running.

Thanks for all the tips I found on moving elements. I am playing better by using them. I have one question for you much more experienced Corp commanders. When I use the range command it implements the range to the tagged unit, but as soon as that unit moves it does not again reinstitute range unless I go back and do it. Is this the way it was intended to work? and would you not want a unit to shadow another enemy unit to keep it in range?

Thanks I played the battles from the union side and I did have more battles appear as active ;-)

Did it again today, I will try to send in a bug report when it does, but letting you know it is very frustrating

My frustration and perhaps it doesn't have much to do with this OP but my units at times run off the edge of the map and disappear when they move to regroup. I think the Texas Brigade ran back to Texas the other day to reform. I'm very hesitant right now to have units near the edge of map as they just disappear. What really is going on here? I lost 4 units yesterday to this and wasn't at all happy about it.