I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Oder Fleet. You can get Wilhelm von Preusen from, say, Frankfurt to Konigsberg in about a month, well before the first winter of the game.

I don't understand the obsession some gamers have for Steam. I don't want a gaming service, I want to play a game. Steam is a DRM. Why on earth would I want to add more intrusive software to my PC than I am already forced to do with Microsoft and other companies I won't mention here? My experiences...

Thanks, lodilefty, but with a fast-filling hard drive I only save crucial turns during the campaign season. When it happens again, I will save it. In the first instance, a Pennsylvanian provincial battalion appeared in Round Knob, between Forts Venango and Duquesne - both French occupied at the time...

I'm playing the 1755 campaign, British side, using 1.04c version. Twice now, British provincial re-inforcements have appeared, usually in January, in ridiculous locations - in the wilderness, far behind French lines, with no hope of getting back to friendly territory before freezing or being destroy...

One of the frustrations with the present Tutorials is the size of the text window and the difficulty of carrying out the on-map actions with only a very small proportion of the screen surface available. You could dispense with the text box entirely and have the Tutorial text on a printable pdf docum...