Picture this

[Gray Fox]

I've done a lot of posting about what I use for an army, perhaps a .jpg is worth a kilobyte of text.

An Artillery Division of 20-lbers:

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An Elite Infantry Division with upgraded militia:

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An Army of these units:

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The numbers:

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This is a minimum setup for what I would do as a Union player to make a good army stack.

[Smitzer52]

Awesome! I am gonna Ctrl+c those.

In the elite division, you use cavalryman, artillery man as separate leaders. So their abilities stack in like support units?

[Straight Arrow]

Ah the coming of modern war; it looks like the boys in butternut are on the way to becoming cannon fodder.

[Cardinal Ape]

That setup looks to be about as good as you can get it. Though I am sure Forrest would love to find that artillery division out on its own.

Out of curiosity; do you think putting elements with unit bonuses into the artillery division would make it better? A Sharpshooter, an elite, or a marine perhaps?

[Gray Fox]

In combat, the artillery Division hardly ever gets targeted, because the game mechanic zeroes in on big brigades. If you put anything other than guns in the artillery Division, then those sub-units just get chewed up.

Yes, an officer with cavalry or artillery specialty does the most damage in the biggest army.

[Mickey3D]

In combat, the artillery Division hardly ever gets targeted, because the game mechanic zeroes in on big brigades.

With latest RC there is a counterbattery fire feature. I wonder what's the effect on an artillery Division ?

[minipol]

I have noticed since the latest releases that I lose a lot of guns in big battles.
This is extra hard as the CSA. I also wonder if putting artillery in a seperate division reduces these effects.

[Gray Fox]

I must admit that I have yet to experience any casualties in a pure artillery Division. The counter-battery aspect may target large, mixed Divisions and ignore small artillery ones.