[Looking for a save]

I had just won at cold harbor as the Union on easy difficulty when I had a HD failure and lost all my saves. I'd like to finish that campaign before trying CSA and/or higher difficulty, so I'm hoping maybe someone on this forum has a save laying around that's in a roughly similar position that I could mooch?

It would be much appreciated. If you have one such save, just send me a message and I can give you an email that it can be sent to. 

Thanks!

[Post your most wanted sequel to ultimate general no matter how insane they are.]

Ultimate General Warhammer 40k 

[The Civil War: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were too Afraid to Ask!]

On 10/25/2017 at 11:54 PM, LastZeroFigther said:

Ive always been curious, of what quality, compared to Europeans, was the Union army just before, during the course of, and immediately following. I know that many European observers did not think much of the prowess of the combatants and it stands to reason that since many of the soldiers were volunteers they would not be as high of quality as a professional soldier but I find it difficult to believe that both the soldiers and their leadership were universally as poor as I have seen some make it out to be. Surely as the conflict continued union training and leadership improved to the point where it would be a force to be reckoned with even for a European army if only on combat experience alone. Also was it not the case that many European nations at the time had manditory military service and would therefore have similar issues of motivation and training as the union would have?

 

I have also seen someone mention that Civil War armies were using outdated tactical doctrines compared to European armies but I have never seen anything to suggest that any European forces were fighting in drastically different ways and I suspect that if they were the US would have probably adjusted their tactics to match new military doctrines. Does the idea hold true?

I can't speak to the tactical differences between US and EU armies at the time.

On the first question, there have been lots of forum posts about this on other boards (a quick google search will reveal dozens) and the quick answer is....there's no way to really know. Numbers of army size from that time are general at best (the Union Army boasts over 600,000 soldiers at the end of the war, but how many of those were actual fighting men is anyone's guess - guessing various European army sizes might be even harder), looking at training vs experience in the various armies is going to be even harder, as is comparing general officer ability, and arguably the easiest thing to compare, technology of weapons, hits a snag when you realize you'd also have to try and figure out what sort of production output a country could reasonably sustain during a prolonged conflict (it seems clear to me that any European country would have to import massive amounts of raw materials to try and keep up with what the Union could produce by war's end).

So, this is a question that will never be satisfactorily answered in a way that will ever convince anyone to change their position on it....unless someone makes a mod for this game that lets us sim it out =P 

[Finished Grand Campaign (UNION)]

Man I'm still in 1862! I need more free time lol. 

[UG Civil War’s Future]

On 12/2/2017 at 9:49 PM, Shadowarrior said:

Personally I would love to see  "Ultimate General: Western frontier" or "Custer's last ride" . maybe a DLC or something. 

 

Ehhhh, not sure we really need a game about the US massacring native people except for a couple times where US troops were vastly outnumbered. That wouldn't make a fun game, IMO, and it would feel a little scummy to me.

If you want a war that involves native american units, I think 1812 would be a lot more interesting. 

[Bug with moving units into earthworks]

11 minutes ago, The Soldier said:

Select the unit and right-click the shield icon.

Oh my god.

Thank you lol. 

[Bug with moving units into earthworks]

Playing as Union, whenever I try and move a unit into an earthworks fortification (by clicking and dragging the move arrow until the shield is highlighted and the blue dots showing where the unit will go in the earthwork appears), the unit never actually moves into the earthwork and instead just sort of moves to a random position and direction near the earthwork.

Am I doing something wrong? How on earth am I supposed to move units into earthworks?