Outstanding!!!

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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Downloaded this today (love the digital download, BTW) and have been playing most of the evening. Excellent game. Very polished, easy to get into w/minimal reading of the manual. Highly recommened...Great job Frank, et al. Now, get to work on The Great War!!!
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Hi!

Downloaded it myself today. Wow was that easy!

Looks Great!

Now all I have to do is find time to play! [;)]

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Hi
I picked up the game this morning, very interesting, I need a lot more work on the rules and system, but had a very enjoyable first battle (ULM 1805)

the AI looked very good, 1st battle I crushed 2 Corps and my Cav was sweeping around behind them, while watching a large reinforceing column coming to join, then was shocked to see them change there mind and start to fall back on Ausberg, by the time I had cleaned up the battle field and had got the rest of the forces in order and started to flank them, they pulled back to Munich ! and then the race was on, then had to outflank the Russian Corps trying to flank my main army !

it was very good, it did seem like somebody was thinking on the other side, it wasn't just blindly chargeing into my guns, if I had rushed, it could of easyly counterattacked, or kept it's withdraw in order

very impressed and very happy with the game

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Hi,
I downloaded the game last night & quickly got into it. The first game after giving my supply problems to the AI had me lead the Grand Armee to a crushing victory as huge numerical superiority of the French wiped out most of the Austrian forces (246 points of infantry loss by October 20th). I wasn't impressed by the AI, but who can do AI that can thrive in a dynamic & deteriorating situation.
As a footnote, Bernadotte managed to avoid any conflict at all ! Score 1 for realism [:)]

Switched around sides for 1805, played like a muppet and still got a marginal victory as I hacked my way into Munich.

It is a shame that the extended campaign isn't working [&:]
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Patch is coming soon. This will fix that and other things
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Hi Delphinium
well in my post, for the game I had played, I didn't get a good start on getting my troops moving (set everything up but didn't send the order to march !)

so the AI had a day's march on me and it fought a totally different battle then once I had a better understanding of the rules

but over all, I still think the AI did a good job (or preprogramed to) of reading the battle field and then running for home when it seen it was in trouble

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