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[Liberty or Death] Let's play all of the American Revolution! - twice! Starting on page 9.
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Roderigue Hortalez et Cie
French pay 3 resources, Patriots gain 4 resources.
French -> 2
Patriots ->6
@admanb for the next card.
@A Half Eaten Oreo for first eligible on the Culper Spy Ring event.
Culper Spy Ring
In 1778, George Washington appointed Major Benjamin Tallmadge
as director of military intelligence, charged with creating a spy ring
in New York City. This network became known as the Culper Spy
Ring and operated successfully in and around New York City for
five years, during which time no spy was ever unmasked. Hercules
Mulligan, before he went underground as an agent, had been an
active member of the Sons of Liberty and the New York Committees
of Correspondence and Observation. Mulligan had participated in
acts of rebellion, and his name had appeared on Patriot broadsides
distributed in New York as late as 1776. Mulligan was never arrested,
but the British missed many hints as to his relationship with
key Patriots.
British Resources: 1
Patriot Resources: 6
French Resources: 2
Indian Resources: 2
Total Support: 10
Total Opposition: 15
Cumulative British Casualties (CBC): 19
Cumulative Rebellion Casualties (CRC): 16
French At War
@A Half Eaten Oreo
Command:
Rabble Rouse in
Special Activity:
Skirmish in North Carolina removing one Regular to casualties.
Spending 6 Resources
Less relevant, but you're down to three propaganda markers -- in which of the chosen spaces would you like to place those?
Geth, roll 2d3 for British
Geth, roll 1d3 for Patriots
I'll update tomorrow but spoiler: the next card is NOT Winter's Quarters, so the game will continue.
Send Rochambeau to Virginia, I guess. He can hole up at Mt. Vernon and hope that winter arrives soon.
In February 1778, General Edward Hand led a raid into the
Indian Reserve from Fort Pitt targeting British military supplies
hidden along the Cuyahoga River to supply Indian raids. The expedition
didn’t reach its objective due to weather. As they returned,
some of Hand’s men attacked peaceful Delaware Indians, killing a
few women and children. Since no combatants had been killed, the
expedition became known as the “squaw campaign”
British Resources: 0
Patriot Resources: 0
French Resources: 2
Indian Resources: 2
Total Support: 12
Total Opposition: 26
Cumulative British Casualties (CBC): 23
Cumulative Rebellion Casualties (CRC): 19
French At War
@ me
Support to Opposition is now 12 to 20.
@Hedgethorn for a LC or event.
Martha Washington to Valley Forge
Martha was at Valley Forge to comfort her husband George Washington.
She also spent time entertaining the other wives and officers at
Valley Forge. They worked together to provide appropriate clothes to
the troops. She also worked to raise money and supplies from families
in the region. Sometimes soldiers at Valley Forge who were hungry
threatened mutiny by chanting “No bread, no meat, no soldiers!”
British Resources: 0
Patriot Resources: 0
French Resources: 4
Indian Resources: 0
Total Support: 12
Total Opposition: 20
Cumulative British Casualties (CBC): 23
Cumulative Rebellion Casualties (CRC): 19
French At War
@A Half Eaten Oreo
Special action:
Persuasion in
- Georgia
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
For 3 Resources which we spend Rabble-Rousing in:It looks like there's enough propaganda to cancel raid in all of those. If not switch one for Maryland.
@Hedgethorn and the Winter Gods.
It was 12 vs 20 to start the turn and I just added 6 so it should be 12 vs 26.
@Hedgethorn
That said it's irrelevant. Hedgethorn just has to take a Command, do literally nothing, and I can't even raid a single space. The next card is obviously Winter's Quarters, so the game ends.
French and Patriots are both eligible for victory, but the French have a +4 margin while the Patriots only have +1.
French win the game with a total score of +18. A blow-out, to say the least.
Still had fun though!
There's not really much you can do to keep the French out of the war, other than minimizing casualties (which you want to do anyways). I think the focus needs to be on getting the most out of the period before the French are in the war, by capturing and fortifying pop-2 colonies.
Taking an event as first eligible is asking for it. I saw a chance to take out a village with little effort, but letting the Brits have a full Command + Special action is what turned the tides in the south.
I had a hard time finding time to use partisans. I really wanted to march some Militia into the reservations and start burning villages, but never quite had the time and resources. Clearing the Northwest and keeping all those pop 2 colonies free from raids seems really useful.
I have no idea how the Pats are supposed to move the continentals around. Rally and Rabble-Rousing are great commands and I felt bad not using either during a turn. I did want to eventually march a bunch of cubes into the reservations.
I felt I couldn't do much to control the British in the cities, but by spreading out and Rabble-Rousing I wanted to force them out of the cities where they'd be out of supply come winter. Combined with Blockades you can really put a squeeze on the British resources, which in turn squeezes the Indians.
Because of how Rabble-Rousing and Rally work the french pumping resources into the Patriots is really effective, specially since the Indians never got to steal from the Pats.
I could've fed some chaff to the British forces, but I didn't think of it until too late.
Partisans in this game are weird because the thing that they're best at -- killing troops at a low cost -- is something the Patriots actively want to avoid. Instead they end up being a lot better as a discouraging force -- a single Militia in a space not only allows you to use Persuasion and Rabble-Rousing, it also forces the British to bring at least two Regulars and two Tories to any space they want to build Support in.