Is it me or is the over hyped?

So I picked up UG:CW recently as I had seen a lot of good things about it.

I can't help feeling a bit disappointed with it though. I am nearly finished the Union Campaign on Maj Gen and whilst the Grand Campaign management is good fun. Overall, the battles feel pretty vanilla with little options available to you. I accept Total War Empire is a completely different game, however I felt the battles were far more immersive and allowed you some real tactical options to employ. Where as this feels overly streamlined.

There are also some real game breaking bugs on it. Firstly the cavalry are pretty useless and have terrible AI. If you do not micro manage them they get wiped out so easily and quickly, they also seem very underpowered. Case in point being against a gun battery, said battery can conduct a fighting withdrawal, with their guns whilst under a sustained cavalry attack by a superior number, its ridiculous, i could see the troops running away but guns should be abandoned!

Another being the routing enemy. If you can get a few units into a good enfilading position early in a battle to rout a few enemy units, that should be to your advantage. Inevitably though they will panic, flee through your 2000 man Bde to their front before reorganising behind you and then attacking you from the rear. This seems to be worsened by the cavalry being so weak, even when chasing them down they will reorganise and wipe out your cavalry. You can't assign units to pursue them as they just give up and you end up having to micromanage a game of cat and mouse chasing constantly routing formation around the map (unless you are lucky enough to get them trapped in the corner). This could possibly have been fixed by the below point!

Why is it so hard to capture the enemy? Unless I literally have them encircled or they are a supply wagon it seems impossible to capture them. Even if as above they are running around on their own being chased by superior forces. If they had it set up so that the enemy surrendered more often or they retreated back to the enemy start point none of the above would matter as much. I just seem to spend ages chasing random units around my rear area!

It then just seems overly gamey/arcadey certainly when random enemy units suddenly appear at random places on the map with no warning. It's frustrating as you are limited by the map boundaries so can't even have scouts out there etc.

Finally on the main campaign it gives me the option to assign upto 25 Bdes to a role in a battle. However, I have maxed out my organisation and can only reach 24 (4 Divs of 6 Bdes) am I missing something? Is this a starting perk I missed?

I was wondering if others finding similar frustrations? Or is it just me? I love strategy games and was hoping to play the Confederate campaign on Lt Gen but I am steuggling to motivate my self to finish the Union campaign and I get the feeling the rebel campaign on Lt Gen will just turn into a brutal grind.