Saratoga Campaign

This is my next foray into the surprising Birth of America from Deep Silver and Strategy First. This is a step up from the Carolinas 1776 scenario. The Saratoga Campaign scenario is six turns in length and features a severe change in weather that comes at the end which can bog down any daring last minute raids.

I had a rather complex battle plan written out to win this scenario by a simple (yet usually overwhelming) score victory as I was having trouble securing all Objectives and Strategic Towns on early play testing. Quite by accident just two attempts ago I used a ruse to good effect outside of the Fort Stanwix Objective to confuse, if not draw out the AI from the Albany and Fort Ticonderoga Objectives.

Carolinas 1776

The scenario covers the aborted attempt by the British to capture Charleston and the Carolinas in the late spring of 1776. The British believed they could muster more easily Loyalist support in the Carolinas if they could take out the key American position at Charleston, thereby isolating the Northern rebellious colonies.

This is a four turn scenario and I will be playing as the British. They win the scenario (regardless of Victory Points) if they control two Strategic Towns and the following Objectives: Charleston and Wilmington. Each turn takes a month and some of the longer forays are not completed until a subsequent turn. Of the Objectives, Charleston is by far the most difficult to take and hold.