This week we players a 300 pt game
French Forces
1 Canadian Officer
10 Marines
6 Courer de Bois
2x6 Indians one group with Canoe
Brit Forces
1 Officer
12 Regulars
8 Rangers
12 Provincial Infantry
6 Indians with Muskets
Missions French Engagment and Brits Scouting
We played on a 4x4 board and the missions meant I (as the French player) had to stop the Brits from passing through all 4 2x2' squares and exiting the board with at least 1/3 of his troops intact
Brits started off well and in the first turn scouted both nearest quarters
They then decided to try and end the game early and put one unit of Rangers in the middle of the table to get both quarters
All I had to stop them was one unit of Indians, they charged through the corn and killed the Rangers for the loss of one of their own. In revenge my opponent committed his Indians to the fight but the great manitou was with my Indians as they slaughtered the enemy , this time for the loss of 2 more.
Meantime by opponents regulars had scouted the third square but I was blocking further progress with my Marines.
This left the Provincials to do the job
They advanced past a wood and were shot at by my Courer de Bois, thus
They promptly retired into the woods out of sight
This is when the Gods really decided they really were French
A 1 in 1188 chance occurance meant wild animals attacked my opponents force in the woods
thus
Close up of some bear on Tory action
The bear ate two of his troops forcing them to flee out of the woods were they received some more of this
They then retired again into the woods were my Indians had meanwhile disembarked from their canoe and lay in wait
They then managed to attack him and this was the result
Fun game and an astromnomical run of bad dice by my opponent Leigh, rather than my tactics but hey when you are French in the F&IW you take every win!
