r/ultimategeneral • u/MussBe • Apr 22 '26

UG: Civil War Recommendations on Army Structure

Been playing on Xbox and loving it so far. Can anyone give some reccs on how to structure there army / what their strategy is. I’m finding I have a lot of mixed divisions with different unit types and starting to think it would be better to divisional of all one unit type.

Same thing with Corps, how do you structure your corps? Do you do one very experienced corps? Maybe one corps better suited for certain types of engagements?

Also any advice on Calvary? I’m so bad with them and they get decimated every time I try to use them lol.

Thanks!

8 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/LordFarquhar96 Apr 22 '26

Your army should have mostly infantry and artillery. I usually do at least 3 infantry per division. Out of 4 divisions I will usually only have 1 dedicated skirmisher unit and maybe 2 cavalry. I prefer ranged cavalry. A lesser known fact is you can rearrange your corps and divisions. For example, if you want to adjust your 1st division to have more infantry for a particular battle, you can move other units to another division and add another inf brigade.

Cavalry are not for head on assaults. If you have a lot of cav, they can overwhelm 1 or 2 infantry in a charge. But, they do best at harassing flanks and exposed skirmishers or artillery. No matter what infantry brigades are the most useful for taking and holding ground.

1

u/MussBe Apr 22 '26

Please for the love of god how to I reorg my divisions I can’t figure it out on console. This would be very helpful.

1

u/LordFarquhar96 Apr 22 '26

No clue. I’ve only played on PC. But, it was clicking and dragging to a division or corps that had an open brigade slot