Should these units be attached to Napolean?

Frank Hunter's Campaigns on the Danube is an operational study of the campaigns along the Danube in 1805 and 1809. Campaigns on the Danube's system focuses on trying to present the player with the same sort of decisions placed on their historical counterparts; how to feed an army and move that army according to a plan, all the while trying to fight a campaign. There is also an option to allow players to play out the battles with miniatures and input the results.
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Hanal
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Should these units be attached to Napolean?

Post by Hanal »

In the Crisis on the Danube Scenario, Napolean is frozen at Ulm for a few turns while Davout and Lefebvre take the brunt of the Austrians initail assault....When Napolean is finally freed to move, the following units are with him at Ulm:

Nansouty
Rouyer
Gency
Bruyer
Engineer Unit

All of these units have Napolean listed as their superior commander, yet when I set Napleon's initial objective hex (Munich), these units remain behind while he moves towards his objective....they are not in detached mode so I'm wondering, should not these units move with Napolean?....am I missing a step in this procedure?
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RE: Should these units be attached to Napolean?

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Im pretty certain they are reserve troops that you can add to a corp (notice the * in the unit icon where corp number usually is.

maybe if you attach Nap to a corp they will assign themselves to that corp?
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RE: Should these units be attached to Napolean?

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Thanks DM...I attached the reserves to one of the advance line Corp Commanders and they went on their merry way...seem odd though that they could not have hitched a ride with Nappy....
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RE: Should these units be attached to Napolean?

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did you try attaching Nap to a corp? Ill have to try that next time I play
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RE: Should these units be attached to Napolean?

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I believe I did but the other units still remained behind....will need to double check on that one though....
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RE: Should these units be attached to Napolean?

Post by Didz »

I am playing the same scenario (I think), certainly the same units have appeared at Ulm. But Napoleon has yet to arrive in theatre and so his counter is still frozen.

I have transferred the HQ of each of these units to various Corps and they seem to operate fine on this basis.

Nansouty has been assigned to the Guard
Rouyer to Lefebvre's Bavarian Corps along with Bruyer as the Bavarians have no cavalry of thier own.
Gency has been assigned to Lannes

If you don't want to do that you can just detach them and they will move as independant divisions.

Gency for instance is guarding my depot at Donauworth as he is severely under-strength.
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