Noggs

Pretty much all this. Rio Hill is a combo of them outranging my units and having faster fire rates. I have 1 skirmisher unit armed with whitworths non scoped. Should I equip them with something lower? I may start over on my playthrough, I noticed the changes with the patch and some of those will speak better to my play style.

Playing on Normal just to get a feel for it, I've also tinkered with about 10-15 different variations of army comp/career points/veteran unit builds. But I'm playing on my best "so far" build and I've hit the battles before Chancellorsville and it's like I'm lucky to break even on the side missions. It just seems too that when I have to attack the union they're in a Fort with layered defense and when I get to defend it's a fence line that gets flanked from every direction. I thought this was a good build cause I crushed Antietam and Fredricksburg with 7:1 casualty ratios. So i know what i'm doing but Rio with all the snipers getting scoped weapons, I feel like I may have equipped too many units with high end weapons or something.

I feel like these should be an opportunity where if you perform well and manage troops correctly, you should be able to upgrade your army between grand battles. But even when after Antietam, I start hitting side missions where I'm like...ok i killed 10k of his troops, lost 3k myself, captured alot of goods, ok not too bad.....oh i only got 2500 troops for that mission. Then later on it's getting worse. As CSA I have to attack fully entrenched Union forces with no flanks, if there are flanks the only way I achieve it is by running brigades in a 4 man file between the union forces and the out of bounds or a river. I just think, these should provide us an opportunity to do well and reinforce before our next big battle, not oh I completed all the objectives and inflicted 3x more casualites, but only gain half my troops back.