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Sorry if this is out of place. Frank, I just picked up your old American Civil War game as a free download. What a simple but elegant game design! Haven't played enough yet to tell about the AI but so far it is making the right moves. FWIW I wish you would consider at some point, redesigning and updating this game. I can see some of your design features have been used by other civil war game designers in more recent games. Good on you and great work!

Proud owner of Piercing Europa

Yes indeed, well worth updating - I am big Frank Hunter fan too!

but now with PFE done, i am hoping Frank can finally bring out Campaigns on the Elbe 1813! though whatever he does next will be great

1813 full campaign.

yes please!!!!!

Does Campaigns on the Elbe 1813 play ok w Windows 8?

i like Franks games too..would like to try this.

cheers

Campaigns on the Elbe should work fine with Windows 8. It has 3 campaigns, the 1806 campaign against Prussia, the Spring of 1813 campaign up until the armistice and the Autumn campaign that ended with the battle of Leipzig.

Glad to hear my old ACW is still freely available. And hopefully I can redo and upgrade that game one of these days.

Thanks guys

Campaigns on the Elbe is not out yet though is? its is the one i have been waiting for!

Campaigns on the Danube 1805 and 1809 works very well with windows 7, in fact i have La Grande Armee 1806 which was the first iteration in this period of these napoleonic operational campaigns and even it still works fine with windows 7 - played it again last week as Napoleon and it was hard to try and get the cities i needed to capture in time, one needs to be thinking big in these games, one cant just think to concentrate all your forces on the coalitions forces, it will end in disaster if try also to get to cities needed to be captured at the same time and with using up resources and generally disordering all the Corps

in the 1813 game will the coalition be playing their game of making napoleon go on wild goose chases trying to engage them just to tire his soldiers out?

Great! Great!! games ACW, La Grande Armee 1806 and Campaigns on the Danube 1805 and 1809 I have them all and so hope there will be more additions especially for the Napoleonic period.

To Frank