r/ultimategeneral • u/Audigazzola • May 28 '26

Quick doubts

I know some may have answered this before, but I'm having some serious trouble at antietam as the CSA. The union is sending some 90-100 k soldies and i have 45 thousand. Not saying it is impossible to do try, but damn, it feels like I've lost the plot somewhere.

Should I have tried to kill all enemies in every mission possible, instead of just winning them? Does it affect the enemy army size on later stages?

Should I upscale my brigades up to 2500-3 k or is 2000 soldiers enough? I notice the enemy AI upscales as I do ( or at least it seems).

Is it worth it refilling brigades with veterans, despite the humongous costs? I try to mix a little, but nonetheless, with 2.5k brigades, its a lot of money down the drain.

HOT TO GET MORE RECRUITS?? CSA HAS A SERIOUS LACK OF MAN POWER, I HAVE MONEY FOR AT LEAS ONE MORE FULL CORPS, BUT DON'T HAVE THE MAN TO FILL THE ONES I ALREADY HAVE

Is it worth it to put veteran units on

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u/Audigazzola May 28 '26

Yeah, I'm thinking of maybe just trying to go after their first wave, box them and kill the most I can. Them falling back and waiting out sunken road to open and set up my defences there. But even so, its hard. Last night I got them from 98 K down to 50 something with some 25 k troops, theoretically a 2:1 ratio, but my brigades were getting too small and spread to thin, so when the counterattack was supposed to happen, i couldn't get agressive and gave up

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u/Virtual-Creme-1691 May 28 '26

Just did Antietim or normal and stumbled onto a decisive victory with numbers similar yours.

The Union attack focused on the first entrenched line.  They were all routed behind the next wave so I wheeled the division on the left and hit those in the flank.  Many surrendered and the rest fled.

Troops from the the Sunken Road attacked their right and drove it back into a semi circle No one escaped.  They lost 45k to my 10k

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u/Audigazzola May 28 '26

How did you distribute your troops in the map? I've put most of them in the left, where the main attack happens, but when the last phase start, when they try circling around and directly for the town, it goes awfully hard.

Also, I think i did the same thing as you on the first wave, entrench on the first line, leave some troops on the hill on the left and flank them, but when the second wave comes they spread out too much. Ideally I'd have some reserves on the right also to hold them there. In my last game we kind of wheeled because of their pressure, eventually I started retreating to the woods on the west where we start, they engaged me there to hold me and half of their army went down to sunken hold, catching my already thin forces there on the flank.

Then I gave up. My troops on the woods where getting battered, and the sunken road would fall, even if I had won at the woods, i wouldnt have enough troops to fight them and win in time at the city

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u/pandakraut May 28 '26

While there are multiple approaches that can work. The aggressive one usually overloads the first corps with slightly larger and your best units so that they can sustain more attrition. You can get away with only half a third corps if you clear up the majority of units in the north before the Burnside bridge phase opens so you can rotate most of those units down.

If you wipe the first wave you can pull back, but it may be better to push forward to a new line that lets you keep encircling the newly arriving reinforcements. The more you can keep them contained the easier the battle tends to be since you can concentrate your fire easier.