ChrisM

This is good, comprehensive advice, thanks. I'll take another go in a while and see how I do.

I bought the game in the Steam Winter Sale. I fired it up and started the Confederate campaign on easy. I'm an experienced Total War player, so this isn't my first time in this kind of game. Honestly, the game feels like an early beta build of the first Total War from 2000. So many basic functions and quality of life features are missing. Enemy units skirmish away a few millimetres and so my units just stand there and get shot to pieces: it's all-micro, all the time. There's no way to see where units are going a few seconds after I send them. Movement is erratic: will they actually bother marching where I want them, or will they stop to attack some random enemy who could be flanked but no, we decided to stop to shoot them from the front instead. Units' morale breaks after about five seconds in melee. My reinforcements arrive across the map: I can walk them over, in which case my fort will be dead, or I can run them over, in which case my fort will still be dead and my reinforcements will be dropping dead of exhaustion. I could go on. I really expected to like this game but this first battle is an absolutely horrid experience. And this is the introductory battle, to show new players the ropes! I kept asking myself, what on earth were the developers thinking releasing a game in this state? Then I remembered it was years old already. Am I missing something? I must be missing something. Tell me what I'm missing.