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I actually like this scenario as the union can be slaughtered pretty easily. Aetius video shows how to do it. On my last run on hard difficulty i positioned one brigade in the top nort woods in a forward position, supported by one brigrade in the corn field, this reduced union troop concentration on the center. I lost only 3200 of my 14k troops and had no cavalry. Moving one or two skirmishers behind enemy lines will distract them further and you most probably will be able to kill some arty.

Are you sure the shop will provide more weapons if you buy the available ones before a great battle? I tried this two times an it did not seem to make an difference so i stoped doing it.

Just played Fredericksburg as CSA on hard difficulty. As usually i was outnumbered 2:1 (about 78k vs 36k) It was really easy to win, lost 6800 soldiers for 51k Union. Union was way to passive compared to before the patch, especially charges are rare and so i could slaughter them from superior cover. While charging may be not a good idea in many situations, on Fredericksbrug its the only way how union can push the CSA out of cover (north) or can enter cover themselves (south).

I played Antietam yesterday on hard as confederates 35k against 83k Union. At the end i lost 13k while the Union had only 12k soldiers left on the field (most units shattered) Antietam can be a real bloodbath or quite easy if you know how to play it. Guide: 1. Make sure you field a small army because the enemy will scale like crazy. 2. Put all your largest brigades on the left flank, only a few brigades at the center and you need nothing on the right but one brigade (the game will not let you start the battle without at least one brigade there) 3. You should be able to match the enemy army size at the beginning. Because you hold superior defensive positions its easy to hold them of. 4. I advice you hold the woods north of the western hill. If you put a sniper unit on der upper left "island" they can probably kill one or both of the iron brigades without much help. Later the snipers can take out their cannons from behind, so you receive fewer losses when pushing the enemy back. 5. When your reinforcements arrive quickly push the enemy back to the upper right corner of the map, you should be able to shatter most brigades before their reinforcements arrive in this corner. Make sure your canons are positioned to fight their reinforcements in the next step. 6. Make sure you to put your brigades into the woods when their reinforcements arrive. You should be able to bottle them up and destory them to the last soldier even while they outnumber you. 7. While you wipe out the enemy in the north, position your troops in the center at the bridge. When you put at least 4 brigades and 4 artillery in firing distance of the bridge you can literally kill brigade after brigade instantly. As they spawn right before you with artillery and cavalry they probably manage to rout one or two brigades of you. Thats no problem, the enemy will falter quickly when being fired on with your artillery. But beware: if you lose this position completly they will swarm you (you can still win but will suffer additional casualties). 8. Hold this bridge until victory. You will be fired upon with artillery, so its good to position some rookies there to catch the bullets. 9. When the last phase starts your north army will have finished their job and can move down to defend Sharpsburg and the sunken road, if the enemy decides to corss the bridges in the south in force. If you want you can recapture the bridges there, but its not needed for a victory.

At some battles the foritfications can already be flanked, for example in Chantilly the Conferderates left flank can be quite easily be flanked and the defender gets the "Flanked!" flag. The union even managed to rout that unit quite easily, so the penalties are apparently applying even when in a fortification. The defenders can shoot back in this fortification to the flanking army, but in other battles they cannot (dont remember which ones, sorry).

Until the last patch you could use space to force them to hold their position, but this has no longer any visible effect now. I hope they will revert that, probably a bug i think?

Noticed something i suspect is an error on the victory conditions. Apparently you must not inflict to much damage to get a draw. Instead of "inflict more the 5% more casualties" it is stated "inflict up to 5% more casualties", so i would not have gotten a draw because i killed too many enemies. The enemy even fielded much stronger equipment, most used CS Richmond rifles and the canons where all 24pd Howitzers!

Hi The trick is to know where the enemy will attack. In the first phase do nothing, the enemy will not attack. In phase 2 put most of your army to your right wing and overwhelm the enemy, you probably should be able to whipe them out completly. In phase 3 defend in the woods in the center what should be quite easy when there is nobody left on your right flank. In phase 4 the enemy had only three thousand something soldiers left so it was really easy to capture the victory points. I played on hard and lost only about 13k of my 50k army wile all enemies but one skirmisher where wiped out, captured or shattered.

While auto-scaling may be annoying sometimes, whats the alternative? If you bring much more soldiers than the enemy it would be quite easy to win. It even works to your advantage, if you lost several battles you will not be able to field a large army, the enemy will scales down to your smaller army, too! And if the enemy would be hampered massivly in successive battles if you managed to wipe out the enemy army completely it would be a cascade of ever easier battles. You wiped them out once and so the next battle you will have a relative advantage, you wipe them out again and get an even greater advantage and really fast there will be no point in playing any further as it would be quite boring. Branching sounds nice, but i hated it on Ultimate General Gettysburg because you could win the campaign after only half the battles or so. So i deliberatly "lost" some battles just to continue fighting. So they would need to put many additional battles in the game just to make sure you get enough of them even when playing very good (or bad).