[Next Ultimate General Game, What would you like to see?]

Few thoughts.

 

Stay away from making it into a Total War game. What works amazingly in UGG is tactical combat and AI. Building and balancing large scale game would mess with that in a big way.

 

Need battles with a lot of What if, where location is well known and is well documented.

 

1. Austerlitz

2. Borodino

3. Collection of battles from Indian Mutiny

4. Crimean War and different episodes of siege of Sevastopol

[UGG Fatal Flaw Discovered:No Historical Accuracy - Film at Eleven!]

As a noob maybe I will offer some feedback that might be useful for the devs.

 

1. Scenario system is ok, it is fun to replay and works mostly, I think some intermediary text of graphics to explain what is going in transition would help

2. Problem is the end conditions of each scenario. On multiple occasion I managed to basically envelop Union troops completely, with broken morale and running with my artillery pouring fire into them from elevated ground and them having nowhere to run.. boom scenario ends and they teleport to a new location Perhaps this can be dealt with by recognizing situations were withdrawal is needed and having AI play to objective?

 

 

In general I think UGG is an awesome tactical game, if anything I think maybe Gettysburg is a bit too big for it? Why not just focus on multiple smaller battles with less troops and shorter time frames?

[New player help]

Thanks a lot awesome guide.

 

Seems like I can beat the easier AI now relatively ok, beat Opportunist with not much issue in the same way and the losses were more lopsided in my favour about 19k vs 28k. I guess this is normal for the period even when you win losses are massive. I don't really know much about US Civil War except just basics.

 

One of my issues before was that I was not watching Morale close enough, falling back really helps a lot. Before I would let many brigades break and only then replace then with what I had in reserve.

 

Also charging once enemy unit starts blinking is an awesome tip

[New player help]

First I want to say an amazing game. I always loved total war games, but this is so much better then any TW.

 

I been playing for couple days and finally managed to win 1 game vs Cautious AI as Confederate(strategic win, I assume there is another type of win where you destroy Union completely?). I also had to do it in the first day. Couple games I tried that went longer my losses just became overwhelming and I could not crush the Union on the last day no matter what.

 

I was wondering if there is a good guide that could help me improve? Biggest issues I have are Artillery positioning. It seems to be the thing that if you can get right wins a battle. Also how to minimize casualties. Brigades from the first day seem to get completely bled dry by the end and become almost useless and this is vs the weakest AI. To get a better win do you need to completely encircle Union and destroy most of the brigades?

 

Thanks!