Our Decision to "Go Union" for the past 2 weeks has been an attempt to gather data and prove a point.
We discussed this in this thread
HERE after week 1 and this weekend's results will be posted below after we have had time to complete our Corps AAR (After Action Report) however ...
In short, it was a weekend of slaughter capping a 2 week period in which we have yet to lose a single point EVER.
The current system is so skewed toward Union Dominance that being a Reb is synonymous with being a Pop-up Target, NO MATTER who plays as Confederate.
This is an attempt to help the game retain its current crop of dejected and frustrated Testers so that the Union doesn't have to test both sides. Balance will certainly come as we get closer to BETA and Launch but I fear we will not get there very quickly if we can not motivate anyone to Test a system that guarantees them loss after loss, no matter how "Historically Accurate" that may be.
The Devs and Mods have heard our complaints and are discussing changes so I don't expect us to have to play Union to prove our point much longer but ...
Again, I will post what I did before, in the previous thread, and for which we have received no offers of acceptance ...