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Box 1308, Hanford, CA 93232-1308</p> +<p style="top:920.4pt;left:562.5pt;font-size:9.6pt">www.GMTGames.com</p> +</div> +<div id="page2" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook02.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>SCENARIOS</b></p> +<p style="top:91.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> has four scenarios:</p> +<p style="top:114.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Annus Mirabilis (1757-59)—The Tournament Scenario</p> +<p style="top:130.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Early War Campaign (1755-59)—Intermediate Scenario One</p> +<p style="top:147.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Late War Campaign (1757-62)—Intermediate Scenario Two</p> +<p style="top:163.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• The Full Campaign (1755-62)—Extended Scenario</p> +<p style="top:179.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The scenarios that begin in the same year use the same counter </p> +<p style="top:193.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">setups, and those that end in the same year use the same victory </p> +<p style="top:207.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">conditions (see rule 13.1 How to Win).</p> +<p style="top:231.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Map Setup Abbreviations</b></p> +<p style="top:250.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">As an aid to setting up, spaces on the game map are marked with </p> +<p style="top:264.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">abbreviated setup instructions for 1757 (the starting point of <i>Annus </i></p> +<p style="top:278.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Mirabilis</i> and the Late War Campaign). Abbreviations are:</p> +<p style="top:300.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">C: Coureurs</p> +<p style="top:317.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">F: Fort</p> +<p style="top:333.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">HL: Highland (4-4)</p> +<p style="top:350.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">I: Indian</p> +<p style="top:366.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ldr: Leader</p> +<p style="top:383.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">MD: Marine Detachment (1-4)</p> +<p style="top:399.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Mil: Militia</p> +<p style="top:415.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">P: Provinicial</p> +<p style="top:432.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">R: Regular (3-4)</p> +<p style="top:448.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">RA: Royal American (4-4)</p> +<p style="top:465.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ra: Ranger</p> +<p style="top:481.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">S: Stockade</p> +<p style="top:498.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Fort Under Construction</p> +<p style="top:520.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Note that the setup for the 1755 scenarios (the Early War Campaign </p> +<p style="top:534.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the Full Campaign) differs from these markings on the map.</p> +<p style="top:558.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Unit Designations</b></p> +<p style="top:577.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The designations for the 3-4 Regulars, Rangers, and Coureurs are </p> +<p style="top:591.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">for historical interest only—it is not necessary to set up units by </p> +<p style="top:605.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">designation, as long as the right quantities and types are placed. </p> +<p style="top:619.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">This is also true for the Provinicials, as long as Northern and </p> +<p style="top:632.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Southern units are discriminated. Indian units, however, must be </p> +<p style="top:646.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">set up according to tribal name.</p> +<p style="top:669.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Set up all units at full strength.</p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Annus Mirabilis (1757-59)</b></p> +<p style="top:96.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">Tournament Scenario</p> +<p style="top:121.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>HISTORICAL NOTE: The British called 1759 the “Year of Mir-</i></p> +<p style="top:134.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>acles” (in Latin, Annus Mirabilis) because the victory bells in </i></p> +<p style="top:148.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>London that year seemed never to cease ringing. The British in </i></p> +<p style="top:162.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>1759 captured French forts Carillon, St-Frédéric, and Niagara. In </i></p> +<p style="top:176.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Germany, they and their Hanoverian allies defeated a French army </i></p> +<p style="top:189.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>at the Battle of Minden. Most importantly, General Wolfe took </i></p> +<p style="top:203.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Québec while Admiral Hawke broke the French fleet at Quiberon </i></p> +<p style="top:217.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Bay—these last events all but sealing the fate of Canada.</i></p> +<p style="top:241.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Length of Game </b></p> +<p style="top:260.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario focuses in on the period of transition (historically) </p> +<p style="top:274.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">from French to British ascendancy. It begins at the British low-</p> +<p style="top:287.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">point in the war, 1757, and continues through the end of 1759, </p> +<p style="top:301.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">when (historically) British victory was all but ensured.</p> +<p style="top:324.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario involves just six hands of cards and can be com-</p> +<p style="top:338.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">pleted in two to three hours. Play begins with the first French Ac-</p> +<p style="top:351.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tion Phase of Early Season 1757 and ends after Late Season 1759 </p> +<p style="top:365.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">(barring an earlier Sudden Death Victory).</p> +<p style="top:389.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Cards</b></p> +<p style="top:408.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use only cards #1-62.</p> +<p style="top:431.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Set aside cards #63-70, which are marked “1755 scenarios.” They </p> +<p style="top:445.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">are not used in this scenario. They are:</p> +<p style="top:468.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• One French Regulars</p> +<p style="top:484.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• One British Regulars</p> +<p style="top:501.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• one 1-value Highlanders</p> +<p style="top:517.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Royal Americans</p> +<p style="top:533.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Acadians Expelled</p> +<p style="top:550.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• William Pitt</p> +<p style="top:566.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Diplomatic Revolution</p> +<p style="top:583.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Intrigues Against Shirley</p> +<p style="top:599.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Then shuffle the deck and deal each player nine cards—the number </p> +<p style="top:613.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">each will receive each season of this scenario (unless the British </p> +<p style="top:627.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">play Quiberon to reduce the French hand to seven cards).</p> +<p style="top:649.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>PLAY NOTE: As indicated on the </i><i>H</i><i>ighlanders</i><i> cards, preconditions </i></p> +<p style="top:663.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>to play the </i><i>H</i><i>ighlanders</i><i> events apply only in the 1755 scenarios. In </i></p> +<p style="top:677.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>this scenario (and in the Late War scenario), the British player is </i></p> +<p style="top:691.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>allowed to play </i><i>H</i><i>ighlanders</i><i> events whenever he receives them. In </i></p> +<p style="top:704.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>this and the Late War scenarios, the </i><i>W</i><i>illiam</i><i> P</i><i>itt</i><i> and </i><i>D</i><i>iplomatic</i><i> </i></p> +<p style="top:718.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>R</i><i>evolution</i><i> Events are considered already to have occurred. Thus, </i></p> +<p style="top:732.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>both players receive nine cards, and Highlanders, Amherst, Forbes </i></p> +<p style="top:746.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>and Wolfe are available.</i></p> +<p style="top:770.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Markers</b></p> +<p style="top:789.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “VP” at French 4.</p> +<p style="top:805.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “Season - French First” on Early Season 1757.</p> +<p style="top:822.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “Provincial Assemblies” at Supportive.</p> +<p style="top:838.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “French Allied” at Mingo Town, Logstown, Pays d’en Haut, </p> +<p style="top:852.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt">Mississauga.</p> +<p style="top:868.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b><i>Important:</i></b> The PITT event has occurred, so the Highlanders </p> +<p style="top:882.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">events may be played.</p> +</div> +<div id="page3" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook03.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:701.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Setup</b></p> +<p style="top:85.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario uses the setup information marked on the map.</p> +<p style="top:106.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Forts</b></p> +<p style="top:123.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Ticonderoga <i>(Fort Carillon)</i></p> +<p style="top:139.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Crown Point <i>(Fort St-Frédéric)</i></p> +<p style="top:156.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Niagara <i>(Fort Niagara)</i></p> +<p style="top:172.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Ohio Forks <i>(Fort Duquesne)</i></p> +<p style="top:196.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Stockades</b></p> +<p style="top:213.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Île-aux-Noix <i>(Fort Île-aux-Noix)</i></p> +<p style="top:229.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• St-Jean <i>(Forts Chambly and St-Jean)</i></p> +<p style="top:246.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oswegatchie <i>(La Galette and La Présentation)</i></p> +<p style="top:262.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Cataraqui <i>(Fort Frontenac)</i></p> +<p style="top:279.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Toronto <i>(Fort Rouillé)</i></p> +<p style="top:295.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Presqu’île<i> (Fort Presqu’île)</i></p> +<p style="top:312.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• French Creek <i>(Fort Le Boeuf)</i></p> +<p style="top:328.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Venango <i>(Fort Machault)</i></p> +<p style="top:351.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Leaders and Units</b></p> +<p style="top:368.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Louisbourg: Drucour, 3 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(Marine, Artois, Bour-</i></p> +<p style="top:382.6pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>gogne),</i> 1 x Coureurs <i>(Boishébert Acadian)</i></p> +<p style="top:399.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Québec: Lévis, 3 x 3-4 Regulars<i> (Marine, Guyenne, La Reine)</i></p> +<p style="top:415.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Montréal: Montcalm, Vaudreuil, 2 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(Béarn, La-</i></p> +<p style="top:429.3pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Sarre),</i> 1 x Coureurs <i>(Repentigny),</i> Huron, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, </p> +<p style="top:443.0pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">Mississauga</p> +<p style="top:459.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Crown Point: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x Coureurs </p> +<p style="top:473.3pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(Perière)</i></p> +<p style="top:489.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Ticonderoga: Rigaud, Bougainville, 2 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(Langued-</i></p> +<p style="top:503.4pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>oc, Royal Roussillon),</i> 1 x Coureurs <i>(Marin)</i></p> +<p style="top:519.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Cataraqui: Villiers, 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment)</i>, 1 x Coureurs </p> +<p style="top:533.6pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(Léry)</i></p> +<p style="top:550.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Niagara: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x Coureurs <i>(Joncaire)</i></p> +<p style="top:566.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Presqu’île: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment)</i></p> +<p style="top:583.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• French Creek: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment)</i></p> +<p style="top:599.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Venango: 1 x Coureurs <i>(Langlade)</i></p> +<p style="top:615.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Ohio Forks: Dumas, 2 x 1-4<i> (Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x Coureurs </p> +<p style="top:629.6pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(Ligneris)</i></p> +<p style="top:646.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Logstown: 1 x Shawnee</p> +<p style="top:662.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Mingo Town: 1 x Mingo</p> +<p style="top:679.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b><i>Important:</i></b> Leaders Dieskau and Beaujeu are not used in this sce-</p> +<p style="top:692.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">nario.</p> +<p style="top:722.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Forts</b></p> +<p style="top:739.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hudson Carry South <i>(Fort Edward)</i></p> +<p style="top:755.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hudson Carry North <i>(Fort William Henry)</i></p> +<p style="top:772.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Will’s Creek <i>(Fort Cumberland)</i></p> +<p style="top:788.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Shamokin <i>(Fort Augusta)</i></p> +<p style="top:812.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Forts Under Construction</b></p> +<p style="top:829.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Winchester<i> (Fort Loudoun)</i></p> +<p style="top:845.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Shepherd’s Ferry <i>(Fort Frederick)</i></p> +<p style="top:869.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Stockades</b></p> +<p style="top:886.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Schenectady <i>(Forts Johnson and Hunter)</i></p> +<p style="top:902.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hoosic <i>(Fort Massachusetts)</i></p> +<p style="top:919.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Charlestown <i>(Fort No.4)</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Augusta and Woodstock <i>(Virginia fortification line)</i></p> +<p style="top:83.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Carlisle, Harris’s Ferry, Lancaster, Reading and Easton <i>(Penn-</i></p> +<p style="top:97.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>sylvania fortification line)</i></p> +<p style="top:120.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Leaders and Units</b></p> +<p style="top:137.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Winchester: 1 x 2-4 Southern Provincials <i>(Virginia)</i></p> +<p style="top:154.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Shepherd’s Ferry: 1 x 2-4 Southern Provincials <i>(Maryland)</i></p> +<p style="top:170.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Carlisle: 1 x 2-4 Southern Provincials <i>(Pennsylvania)</i></p> +<p style="top:186.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Shamokin: 1 x 2-4 Southern Provincials <i>(Pennsylvania)</i></p> +<p style="top:203.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Philadelphia: 1 x 4-4 Royal Americans<i> (1/60th)</i></p> +<p style="top:219.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• New York: Loudoun, Abercromby, 3 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(22nd, 27th, </i></p> +<p style="top:233.5pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>35th),</i> 3 x 4-4 Royal Americans <i>(2/60th, 3/60th, 4/60th)</i></p> +<p style="top:250.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Albany: Dunbar, 2 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(44th, 48th)</i></p> +<p style="top:266.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hudson Carry South: Webb, 1 x Rangers <i>(Rogers),</i> 3 x 2-4 North-</p> +<p style="top:280.3pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt">ern Provincials <i>(Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)</i></p> +<p style="top:296.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hudson Carry North: 2 x 2-4 Northern Provincials <i>(New Hamp-</i></p> +<p style="top:310.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>shire, New Jersey)</i></p> +<p style="top:326.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Schenectady: Johnson, 1 x 2-4 Northern Provincials<i> (New York),</i> </p> +<p style="top:340.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt">1 x 4-4 Highland <i>(1/42nd)</i></p> +<p style="top:357.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Halifax: Monckton, 3 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(40th, 45th, 47th)</i></p> +<p style="top:373.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Southern Militias: 1 x Colonial Militia</p> +<p style="top:392.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>Leader Pool:</b> Place Amherst, Bradstreet, Forbes, Murray and Wolfe </p> +<p style="top:406.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">into an opaque container so that they can be drawn randomly.</p> +<p style="top:429.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b><i>Importan</i></b>t: Braddock and Shirley are not used in this scenario.</p> +<p style="top:463.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Early War Campaign (1755-59)</b></p> +<p style="top:493.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">Intermediate Scenario One</p> +<p style="top:519.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Length of Game</b></p> +<p style="top:538.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario uses the same victory conditions as <i>Annus Mirabilis</i> </p> +<p style="top:552.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">but begins with the landing at Alexandria of two British regiments </p> +<p style="top:566.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">from Ireland and the arrival of six French army battalions at Lou-</p> +<p style="top:579.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">isbourg and Québec. These regular reinforcements signalled the </p> +<p style="top:593.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">onset in 1755 of direct conflict in America between British and </p> +<p style="top:607.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French crown.</p> +<p style="top:630.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The formal, European war has not yet begun and fewer forces are </p> +<p style="top:643.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">available than in the 1757 scenarios. Montcalm has yet to arrive, </p> +<p style="top:657.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">for example, and Pennsylvania and Virginia have not yet construct-</p> +<p style="top:671.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ed their border defenses.</p> +<p style="top:694.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Play begins with the first French Action Phase of Early Season </p> +<p style="top:707.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">1755 and ends after Late Season 1759 (barring an earlier Sudden </p> +<p style="top:721.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Death). It should take (at most) five hours to complete.</p> +<p style="top:745.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Cards</b></p> +<p style="top:764.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use all cards (#1-70). Shuffle and deal each player eight cards—the </p> +<p style="top:778.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">number each player will receive each season, until certain events </p> +<p style="top:792.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">that may increase either player’s hand size to nine cards or de-</p> +<p style="top:806.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">crease the French hand to seven cards.</p> +<p style="top:835.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>Markers</b></p> +<p style="top:852.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “VP” at 0.</p> +<p style="top:869.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “Season - French First” on Early Season 1755.</p> +<p style="top:885.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “Provincial Assemblies” at Supportive.</p> +<p style="top:902.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “French Allied” at Pays d’en Haut, Kahnawake and St-Fran-</p> +<p style="top:915.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt">çois.</p> +</div> +<div id="page4" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook04.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• “British Allied” at Canajoharie.</p> +<p style="top:84.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Setup</b></p> +<p style="top:103.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The setup for this scenario differs from the 1757 setup shown on </p> +<p style="top:117.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the map.</p> +<p style="top:147.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Forts</b></p> +<p style="top:164.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Crown Point <i>(Fort St-Frédéric)</i></p> +<p style="top:180.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Niagara <i>(Fort Niagara)</i></p> +<p style="top:197.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ohio Forks <i>(Fort Duquesne)</i></p> +<p style="top:220.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Stockades</b></p> +<p style="top:237.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Île-aux-Noix <i>(Fort Île-aux-Noix)</i></p> +<p style="top:254.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• St-Jean <i>(Forts Chambly and St-Jean)</i></p> +<p style="top:270.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oswegatchie<i> (La Galette and La Présentation)</i></p> +<p style="top:287.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Cataraqui <i>(Fort Frontenac)</i></p> +<p style="top:303.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Toronto <i>(Fort Rouillé)</i></p> +<p style="top:319.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Presqu’île<i> (Fort Presqu’île)</i></p> +<p style="top:336.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• French Creek <i>(Fort Le Boeuf)</i></p> +<p style="top:352.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Venango<i> (Fort Machault)</i></p> +<p style="top:376.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Leaders and Units</b></p> +<p style="top:393.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Louisbourg: Drucour, 3 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(Marine, Artois, Bour-</i></p> +<p style="top:407.0pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>gogne)</i></p> +<p style="top:423.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Québec: Dieskau, Vaudreuil, 4 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(Béarn, Guyenne, </i></p> +<p style="top:437.1pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>La Reine, Languedoc)</i></p> +<p style="top:453.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Montréal: Rigaud, 1 x 3-4 Regulars (Marine), 2 x Coureurs <i>(Re-</i></p> +<p style="top:467.4pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>pentigny, Perière),</i> 1 x Caughnawaga, 1 x Abenaki</p> +<p style="top:483.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Île-aux-Noix: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment)</i></p> +<p style="top:500.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Crown Point: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x Coureurs </p> +<p style="top:514.0pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(Marin)</i></p> +<p style="top:530.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Cataraqui: Villiers, 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x Coureurs </p> +<p style="top:544.3pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(Léry)</i></p> +<p style="top:560.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Niagara: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment), </i>1 x Coureurs<i> (Joncaire)</i></p> +<p style="top:577.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Presqu’île: 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment)</i></p> +<p style="top:593.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• French Creek: 1 x 1-4<i> (Marine Detachment)</i></p> +<p style="top:610.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Venango: 1 x Coureurs <i>(Langlade)</i></p> +<p style="top:626.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Ohio Forks: Beaujeu, Dumas, 1 x 1-4 <i>(Marine Detachment),</i> 1 x </p> +<p style="top:640.3pt;left:67.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">Coureurs <i>(Ligneris),</i> Ottawa, Potawatomi</p> +<p style="top:656.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b><i>Important:</i></b> Place Leaders Montcalm, Lévis, and Bougainville </p> +<p style="top:670.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">aside. They enter with the first French Regulars event.</p> +<p style="top:700.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Forts</b></p> +<p style="top:717.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hudson Carry South <i>(Fort Lyman, </i>aka <i>Fort Edward)</i></p> +<p style="top:733.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Will’s Creek <i>(Fort Cumberland)</i></p> +<p style="top:750.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oswego <i>(Fort Oswego)</i></p> +<p style="top:773.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Stockades</b></p> +<p style="top:790.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oneida Carry West<i> (Fort Bull)</i></p> +<p style="top:807.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oneida Carry East <i>(Fort Williams)</i></p> +<p style="top:823.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Schenectady <i>(Forts Johnson & Hunter)</i></p> +<p style="top:839.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Hoosic <i>(Fort Massachusetts)</i></p> +<p style="top:856.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Charlestown <i>(Fort No.4)</i></p> +<p style="top:879.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Leaders and Units</b></p> +<p style="top:896.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Oswego: 1 x 2-4 Northern Provincials <i>(New York)</i></p> +<p style="top:913.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Albany: Shirley, Johnson, 5 x 2-4 Northern Provincials <i>(Rhode </i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, 2 x Massachusetts),</i> 2 x </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:11.4pt">Mohawk</p> +<p style="top:97.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Halifax: Monckton, 1 x 3-4 Regulars <i>(47th)</i></p> +<p style="top:113.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Alexandria: Braddock, Dunbar, 2 x 3-4 Regular <i>(44th, 48th)</i></p> +<p style="top:130.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">• Will’s Creek: 2 x 2-4 Southern Provincials <i>(Virginia, Maryland)</i></p> +<p style="top:146.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>Leader Pool: </b>Place Abercromby, Bradstreet, Loudoun, Murray </p> +<p style="top:160.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Webb into an opaque container so that they can be drawn ran-</p> +<p style="top:174.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">domly.</p> +<p style="top:196.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b><i>Important:</i></b> Place Amherst, Forbes, and Wolfe aside: they are not </p> +<p style="top:210.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">available until the William Pitt event or 1759. Once the Pitt event </p> +<p style="top:224.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">is played or at the beginning of 1759, place Amherst, Wolfe and </p> +<p style="top:238.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Forbes into the British leader pool.</p> +<p style="top:272.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Late War Campaign (1757-62)</b></p> +<p style="top:302.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">Intermediate Scenario Two</p> +<p style="top:326.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario uses the setup information marked on the map.</p> +<p style="top:351.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Length of Game </b></p> +<p style="top:370.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario begins with the North American conflict in full gear </p> +<p style="top:383.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">(as in <i>Annus Mirabilis</i>), but allows play to extend beyond the date </p> +<p style="top:397.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of Canada’s historical surrender (late 1760). The presumption is </p> +<p style="top:411.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">that—without Britain’s spectacular victories in 1759 and 1760—</p> +<p style="top:425.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fighting could have continued until a European peace came within </p> +<p style="top:438.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sight in late 1762.</p> +<p style="top:461.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Play begins with Early Season 1757 and ends after Late Season </p> +<p style="top:475.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">1762, barring a Sudden Death. This scenario could take as long as </p> +<p style="top:489.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">five hours to complete if it goes all the way to 1762.</p> +<p style="top:513.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Cards</b></p> +<p style="top:532.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use the same card deck preparation as found in the Tournament </p> +<p style="top:545.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Scenario, <i>Annus Mirabilis</i>.</p> +<p style="top:568.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Markers and Setup Use the same setup of units and markers as is </p> +<p style="top:582.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">found in the Tournament Scenario, <i>Annus Mirabilis</i>.</p> +<p style="top:616.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>The Full Campaign (1755-62)</b></p> +<p style="top:646.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">Extended Scenario</p> +<p style="top:672.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Length of Game</b></p> +<p style="top:691.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This scenario covers the full period of general conflict in North </p> +<p style="top:705.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">America.</p> +<p style="top:728.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Play begins with Early Season 1755 and ends after Late Season </p> +<p style="top:742.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">1762 (barring an earlier Sudden Death). If it goes the full distance, </p> +<p style="top:755.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">it may take as long as eight hours.</p> +<p style="top:779.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Cards</b></p> +<p style="top:798.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use all 70 cards. Shuffle and deal each player eight cards—the </p> +<p style="top:812.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">number each player will receive each season, until certain events </p> +<p style="top:826.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">which may increase or decrease a player’s hand size.</p> +<p style="top:850.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Markers and Setup</b></p> +<p style="top:869.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use the same setup of units and markers as is found in the Early </p> +<p style="top:883.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">War Campaign Scenario.</p> +</div> +<div id="page5" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook05.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:701.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:363.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Wilderness Battle</b></p> +<p style="top:393.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:19.2pt">The Monongahela, 1755</p> +<p style="top:418.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player, having previously constructed a stockade at </p> +<p style="top:432.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Gist’s Station to provide a line of retreat, activates Braddock (2-</p> +<p style="top:445.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">7-0) with a 2-value card and moves him with Dunbar (3-5-0), the </p> +<p style="top:459.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">44th and 48th regiments (both 3-4), and two Virginia, one Mary-</p> +<p style="top:473.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">land and one Pennsylvania regiment (four 2-4s) from Gist’s to </p> +<p style="top:487.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ohio Forks—intent on besieging Fort Duquesne.</p> +<p style="top:509.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player decides to defend outside the fort, in order to </p> +<p style="top:523.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">take advantage of his Auxiliaries in the wilderness—and of an Am-</p> +<p style="top:537.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">bush! card he is holding. His force includes Beaujeu (1-2-1), Du-</p> +<p style="top:551.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">mas (1-2-1), a Marine Detachment (1-4), a Coureurs des bois unit </p> +<p style="top:564.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(1-6) and three Indian units (all 1-6).</p> +<p style="top:587.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">He plays Ambush! (which goes to the discard pile), allowing him to </p> +<p style="top:601.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fire first with doubled strength (5x2=10). He rolls a 6 (resulting in </p> +<p style="top:615.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a leader loss check), modified (+1 for Beaujeu’s tactics) to be less </p> +<p style="top:628.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">than or equal to 7 on the 9-12 column on the Combat Results Table </p> +<p style="top:642.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(CRT). The result is 4 step losses.</p> +<p style="top:665.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The result means that the British player must reduce four units, so </p> +<p style="top:679.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">he flips all his units but two of the Provincials. He then rolls once </p> +<p style="top:692.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">for each leader to see if they are killed. Braddock rolls a 1 (he is </p> +<p style="top:706.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminated) and Dunbar a 3.</p> +<p style="top:729.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British now return fire with a strength of 10 (four 2-4s and </p> +<p style="top:743.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">two 1- 4s). The roll is a 1 (a leader loss check) modified –1 for </p> +<p style="top:756.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">only Regulars and Provincials battling Auxiliaries in the Wilder-</p> +<p style="top:770.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ness. The “<0” row on the 9-12 column shows one step loss. The </p> +<p style="top:784.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player flips the Marine Detachment (the first loss must be </p> +<p style="top:798.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">from Drilled Troops) and rolls for Beaujeu, who is killed on a roll </p> +<p style="top:811.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of 1, and Dumas, who survives on a 2.</p> +<p style="top:834.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French won (one step loss to four British steps) and so the </p> +<p style="top:848.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">British must retreat to the friendly stockade at Gist’s Station. (If </p> +<p style="top:862.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">no fortification were there, the six British Drilled units would be </p> +<p style="top:875.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminated and Dunbar retreated alone.) The French receive 1 VP </p> +<p style="top:889.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">for defeating a force including Regulars (or consisting of more </p> +<p style="top:903.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">than four units) in a field battle.</p> +<p style="top:600.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Raids on the Frontier</b></p> +<p style="top:629.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">The Shenandoah Valley, 1756</p> +<p style="top:654.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">It is the beginning of the Early Season of 1756. The French play-</p> +<p style="top:668.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">er notes that the frontier of the Southern Department colonies is </p> +<p style="top:682.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sparsely defended, and decides to score some VPs with a series of </p> +<p style="top:695.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indian raids. He has a fort at Ohio Forks, and so can play a West-</p> +<p style="top:710.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ern Indian Alliance event. He rolls a “3” and—having fewer than </p> +<p style="top:723.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">5 VPs at the moment—must halve the roll and round up, placing </p> +<p style="top:737.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">two new Indian units in their settlements. He also has a fort at Ni-</p> +<p style="top:750.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">agara, so could choose Pays d’en Haut Indians, but selects instead </p> +<p style="top:764.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a Mingo unit and a Shawnee unit, placing them at Mingo Town </p> +<p style="top:778.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Logstown, respectively, where he also places “French Allied” </p> +<p style="top:792.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">markers.</p> +<p style="top:814.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player responds in his Action Phase by playing a Call </p> +<p style="top:828.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Out Militias event to place one full strength Colonial Militia unit </p> +<p style="top:842.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in the Southern Militias box.</p> +<p style="top:865.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player plays a 2-value card to individually activate the </p> +<p style="top:878.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">two new Indian units (each count half a point to activate), plus </p> +<p style="top:892.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Dumas (1-2-1), who is at Ohio Forks. He moves the two units and </p> +<p style="top:906.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the leader each individually via Upper Monongahela to Allegheny </p> +<p style="top:920.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">South. </p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:267.5pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>COMBAT EXAMPLES</b></p> +</div> +<div id="page6" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook06.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">With the threat to Virginia evident, the British player uses a 2-value </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">card to build stockades at Augusta and Winchester. (There is al-</p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ready a Virginia Provincial unit at Woodstock.)</p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player uses a 1-value card to activate Dumas and the </p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">two Indian units as a force and moves them to Augusta to raid </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the stockade. (The French player could have individually activated </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indian units—or moved just one unit under Dumas—to Infiltrate </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">through Augusta to Culpeper, and the Provincial in Woodstock </p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">could have attempted to Intercept into Augusta and/or Culpeper </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and force a Battle.)</p> +<p style="top:222.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Because the raid target is an unoccupied stockade in cultivated ter-</p> +<p style="top:236.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rain, a Militia unit from the corresponding box may be deployed </p> +<p style="top:249.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to bring about a Battle. The British player decides to deploy his </p> +<p style="top:263.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">new Colonial Militia unit to the Augusta stockade, so Dumas’ force </p> +<p style="top:277.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">must attack.</p> +<p style="top:300.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">On the CRT, the French are on the 2 column (DRMs of +1 for Du-</p> +<p style="top:313.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">mas’ tactics and –1 for the stockade cancel out). The British are on </p> +<p style="top:327.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the 1 column. Each player rolls a 4, each causing one step loss. The </p> +<p style="top:341.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">reduced Militia unit returns to the Southern Colonial Militia box. </p> +<p style="top:355.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player reduces the Mingo Indian unit to 0-6 and must </p> +<p style="top:368.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">retreat Dumas’ force back to Allegheny South (tied results without </p> +<p style="top:382.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminating the defender mean the attacker loses).</p> +<p style="top:405.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player has another Call Out Militias event in his hand </p> +<p style="top:419.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and plays it to place a second Militia unit in the Southern Colonial </p> +<p style="top:432.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Militia box.</p> +<p style="top:455.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player is content to keep the British distracted and on </p> +<p style="top:469.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the defensive, and so with another 1-value card again activates Du-</p> +<p style="top:483.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">mas’ force to repeat the strike on Augusta.</p> +<p style="top:505.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player deploys his new full-strength Militia unit to the </p> +<p style="top:519.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">stockade, but this time only the French player scores a 1-step loss </p> +<p style="top:533.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">on the CRT. The reduced Militia unit returns to its box and Dumas’ </p> +<p style="top:547.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">force remains in Augusta to carry out its raid.</p> +<p style="top:569.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French Raid receives a +1 for Dumas’ tactics and a –1 be-</p> +<p style="top:583.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cause the target space is within a Department with at least two </p> +<p style="top:597.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">militia units in its box. The French roll a 5 on the Stockade/Set-</p> +<p style="top:611.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tlement column—a Success and one step loss. The stockade is </p> +<p style="top:624.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminated and a Raided marker is placed in Augusta. The French </p> +<p style="top:638.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">player decides to eliminate the already reduced Mingo unit. All </p> +<p style="top:652.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">who participated in the raid must Go Home. The French player </p> +<p style="top:666.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">decides to have the surviving Shawnee unit accompany Dumas </p> +<p style="top:679.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">back to the fort at Ohio Forks.</p> +<p style="top:702.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Assuming the French place no additional Raided counters, the </p> +<p style="top:716.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Raided marker at Augusta will be worth 1 VP (half a VP, rounded </p> +<p style="top:730.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">up) when it is removed at year end.</p> +<p style="top:296.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Amphibious Landing</b></p> +<p style="top:323.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:19.2pt">Gabarus Bay and Louisbourg, 1758</p> +<p style="top:348.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player uses a 3-value card to activate a large force of </p> +<p style="top:362.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">units and leaders under Amherst in Halifax, then plays an Amphibi-</p> +<p style="top:376.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ous Landing card to allow it to perform a naval move to French-</p> +<p style="top:389.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">controlled Louisbourg and to place an Amphib marker there. </p> +<p style="top:411.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Louisbourg is occupied by Drucour and five French Regular units. </p> +<p style="top:425.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player decides to defend outside the fortress with this </p> +<p style="top:438.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">force, in hopes of throwing the British back to Halifax and in order </p> +<p style="top:452.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to use a Fieldworks card he is holding, so a Battle occurs. In the </p> +<p style="top:466.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Battle, the British roll is modified by –1 for attacking amphibiously </p> +<p style="top:480.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and shifts one column left for the French Fieldworks marker. </p> +<p style="top:502.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">If the British lost, they would retreat to Halifax (the space from </p> +<p style="top:515.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">which they entered the Battle), the Amphib marker would be re-</p> +<p style="top:529.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">moved, the Fieldworks marker would remain, and the French </p> +<p style="top:543.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">would receive 1 VP for winning a Battle against a force that in-</p> +<p style="top:557.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cludes either Regulars or more than four units.</p> +<p style="top:578.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In this case, however, the British win the battle, and so the surviv-</p> +<p style="top:592.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing French force must retreat into the fortress (there is no adjacent </p> +<p style="top:606.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">space, and only the British may retreat by sea—and then only if </p> +<p style="top:620.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">they have an Amphib marker). The British receive 1 VP for win-</p> +<p style="top:633.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ning a Battle against Regulars or more than four units, the Field-</p> +<p style="top:647.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">works marker is removed, and a “Siege 0” marker is placed.</p> +<p style="top:669.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The space is now besieged and controlled by neither side. If the </p> +<p style="top:683.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player were holding the Louisbourg Squadrons card, he </p> +<p style="top:697.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">could no longer play it as an event because of the contested control </p> +<p style="top:710.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of Louisbourg.</p> +<p style="top:732.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Despite the contested control—and because of the Amphib mark-</p> +<p style="top:746.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">er—the British could naval move additional forces to Louisbourg </p> +<p style="top:760.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">from any other British port without another Amphibious Landing </p> +<p style="top:773.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">card, or could naval move besieging units from Louisbourg to any </p> +<p style="top:787.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British port (including Halifax).</p> +<p style="top:809.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British cannot, however, carry out an Amphibious Landing at </p> +<p style="top:823.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the three approaches to Québec until they capture the fortress at </p> +<p style="top:836.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Louisbourg and thereby control the Louisbourg space, because an </p> +<p style="top:850.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Amphibious Landing must come from a port they control. </p> +<p style="top:872.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">If the British succeed in capturing the fortress before year end, they </p> +<p style="top:886.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">will receive 3 VPs and be immune to Attrition there. However, if </p> +<p style="top:900.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the siege continues at yearend, both the French and British there </p> +<p style="top:913.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">will suffer Attrition.</p> +</div> +<div id="page7" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook07.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:701.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Battle Outside a Fortress</b></p> +<p style="top:96.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:19.2pt">The Plains of Abraham, 1759</p> +<p style="top:121.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">An army under Wolfe (1-6-2) is ensconced at Île d’Orléans on an </p> +<p style="top:134.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Amphib marker and a stockade, having been repulsed in a recent </p> +<p style="top:148.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">movement into Québec. The British player activates the force </p> +<p style="top:162.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">under Wolfe with a 1-value card. The force includes Murray (1-</p> +<p style="top:176.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">5-0), Monckton (2-5-0), one full-strength 4-4 (one of the 78th </p> +<p style="top:189.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Highlanders), three full strength 3-4s (the 35th, 43rd and 48th), </p> +<p style="top:203.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">three reduced-strength (3-4) Regulars (the other 78th, the 2/60th </p> +<p style="top:217.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the 3/60th), four reduced (2-4) Regulars (the 15th, 28th, 47th </p> +<p style="top:231.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and 58th), a 2-6 Light Infantry unit (Howe’s) and a 2-6 Ranger </p> +<p style="top:244.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">unit (Goreham)—a total of 34 strength points. The British player </p> +<p style="top:258.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">moves the entire force into the Québec space. (For convenience, all </p> +<p style="top:272.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">these leaders and units are in the Wolfe box, and only Wolfe moved </p> +<p style="top:286.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">from the Île d’Orléans space to Québec.) </p> +<p style="top:308.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French force at Québec already has a Fieldworks marker and </p> +<p style="top:322.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">consists of Montcalm (1-6-2), Vaudreuil (3-5-0), Bougainville (1-</p> +<p style="top:336.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">3-0), three full strength Regulars (the Royal Roussillon, Langued-</p> +<p style="top:350.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">oc and La Sarre Regulars), three reduced (2-4) Regulars (Béarn, </p> +<p style="top:363.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Guyenne and a Marine unit); two reduced (0-6) Coureurs des bois </p> +<p style="top:377.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">units and four full strength (1-6) Indian units (Ottawa, Huron, Al-</p> +<p style="top:391.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">gonquin and Caughnawaga). The French player— not wanting to </p> +<p style="top:405.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">leave any of this army bottled up inside the fortress, and wanting to </p> +<p style="top:418.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">take advantage of his Fieldworks and a strong militia— decides to </p> +<p style="top:432.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">defend outside with the entire force. A battle results.</p> +<p style="top:455.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player has four full strength Canadian Militia units (4 </p> +<p style="top:469.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">x 1-0) in the St. Lawrence Militia Box, and he decides to deploy </p> +<p style="top:482.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">all of them to Québec for the battle, giving his force a total combat </p> +<p style="top:496.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">strength of 23.</p> +<p style="top:519.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(He could not deploy them for the battle if there were any Raided” </p> +<p style="top:533.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">markers in the St.Lawrence Department at that time, but earlier </p> +<p style="top:546.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">raids by the British rangers into Baie-St-Paul and Rivière-Ouelle </p> +<p style="top:560.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">failed.)</p> +<p style="top:583.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player plays a Fieldworks card, removing the French </p> +<p style="top:597.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Fieldworks marker (representing his army finding a way around </p> +<p style="top:610.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">them). Neither player is holding any other response events (with a </p> +<p style="top:624.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">brown background around its name).</p> +<p style="top:647.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The only modifiers are for the tactics ratings of each commander, </p> +<p style="top:661.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in this case +2 for each side for Montcalm and Wolfe. The British </p> +<p style="top:674.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">player rolls on the >28 column and the French player the 22-27 col-</p> +<p style="top:688.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">umn of the CRT, each adding +2 to the die roll. The British player </p> +<p style="top:702.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rolls a 6, resulting in eight French step losses and an leader check. </p> +<p style="top:716.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player rolls a 1, resulting in four British step losses and </p> +<p style="top:729.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a leader check as well.</p> +<p style="top:496.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player must flip his three full-strength Regulars and </p> +<p style="top:509.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminate one reduced Regulars, plus flip four other units, and in </p> +<p style="top:523.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">this case he chooses the four Militia units. He must roll a check for </p> +<p style="top:537.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">each of his leaders. Rolling a 1, Montcalm is killed (removed).</p> +<p style="top:560.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player must flip two of his full-strength Regulars plus </p> +<p style="top:573.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">two other full-strength units, in this case choosing the Light Infan-</p> +<p style="top:587.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">try unit and an additional Regular unit. The British player rolls for </p> +<p style="top:601.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">each of his leaders. Rolling a 1, Wolfe is killed.</p> +<p style="top:624.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French lost and must retreat. All militia are returned to the St. </p> +<p style="top:637.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Lawrence Militia box. The French could retreat into the fortress, </p> +<p style="top:651.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">but the French player still wishes to avoid committing his main </p> +<p style="top:665.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">army to a siege and so retreats to Bécancour, a cultivated space.</p> +<p style="top:688.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British receive 1 VP for winning a field battle against Regulars </p> +<p style="top:701.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">or more than four units. A “Siege 0” marker is placed on the Qué-</p> +<p style="top:715.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">bec fortress, which will defend itself even though empty of units, </p> +<p style="top:729.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">until taken by Siege and Assault (or a Surrender! event).</p> +</div> +<div id="page8" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook08.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>The Year 1757</b></p> +<p style="top:136.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">A good way to learn how to play <i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> is to set up </p> +<p style="top:150.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and follow along with this full description of a sample year of the </p> +<p style="top:163.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">game.</p> +<p style="top:186.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Two players have decided to play the tournament scenario, <i>Annus </i></p> +<p style="top:200.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Mirabilis</i>. They choose sides and agree not to use any Optional </p> +<p style="top:214.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Rules.</p> +<p style="top:236.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">They place the units and leaders according to the scenario setup, </p> +<p style="top:250.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">opting for convenience to ignore the historical designations, but </p> +<p style="top:264.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">making sure to select the right types of units.</p> +<p style="top:287.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">To be able to spread out the units more, they place Vaudreuil and </p> +<p style="top:300.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the units at Montréal in the Montcalm box, leaving only Montcalm </p> +<p style="top:314.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in the Montréal space. The French player also places Bougainville </p> +<p style="top:328.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the units at Ticonderoga in the Rigaud box, for the same rea-</p> +<p style="top:342.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">son. Likewise, Abercromby and the units at New York City are in </p> +<p style="top:355.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Loudoun’s box.</p> +<p style="top:378.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">They place the “Provincial Assemblies” marker at “Supportive,” </p> +<p style="top:392.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the VP marker on the French section of the VP Track at 4, and the </p> +<p style="top:406.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Season marker on Early Season 1757, “French First” side up.</p> +<p style="top:428.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">They prepare the deck, removing the eight cards that say “1755 </p> +<p style="top:442.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">scenarios” (#63 to #70), which are events considered to have been </p> +<p style="top:456.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">played and removed (occurred historically) during 1755 or 1756. </p> +<p style="top:470.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Then one player shuffles and begins the first season, Early Season </p> +<p style="top:483.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">1757, by dealing each player nine cards. The players receive the </p> +<p style="top:497.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">following hands (card Activation values are in brackets [#]).</p> +<p style="top:111.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>French Hand</b></p> +<p style="top:130.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#14 Foul Weather [2]</p> +<p style="top:147.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#24 Northern Indian Alliance [2]</p> +<p style="top:163.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#32 Treaty of Easton [2]</p> +<p style="top:180.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#36 François Bigot [2]</p> +<p style="top:196.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#37 British Ministerial Crisis [3]</p> +<p style="top:213.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#41 British Colonial Politics [3]</p> +<p style="top:229.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#44 Raise Provincial Regiments [2]</p> +<p style="top:245.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#46 Colonial Recruits [2]</p> +<p style="top:262.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#48 Victories in Germany [3]</p> +<p style="top:288.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>British Hand</b></p> +<p style="top:307.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#5 Bastions Repaired [1]</p> +<p style="top:324.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#12 Ambush! [1]</p> +<p style="top:340.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#17 Amphibious Landing [1]</p> +<p style="top:357.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#22 Governor Vaudreuil Interferes [3]</p> +<p style="top:373.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#28 Iroquois Alliance [3]</p> +<p style="top:390.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#31 Cherokee Uprising [3]</p> +<p style="top:406.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#38 Provincial Regiments Dispersed for Frontier Duty [2]</p> +<p style="top:422.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#57 British Regulars [3]</p> +<p style="top:439.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#59 British Regulars [3]</p> +<p style="top:458.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Play then begins with alternating Actions Phases (card plays) start-</p> +<p style="top:472.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing with the French.</p> +<p style="top:913.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">At Start Situation</p> +<p style="top:66.0pt;left:153.8pt;font-size:28.8pt"><b>EXTENDED EXAMPLE OF PLAY</b></p> +</div> +<div id="page9" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook09.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:701.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b></b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase One</b></p> +<p style="top:83.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">Hoping to prevent the arrival of Brit-</p> +<p style="top:97.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish reinforcements, the French player </p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">begins with play of #37 British Minis-</p> +<p style="top:125.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">terial Crisis as an Event. Of the cards </p> +<p style="top:138.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">listed on the Event, the British player </p> +<p style="top:152.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">is holding only two British Regulars </p> +<p style="top:166.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">and so must discard one of them. (If he </p> +<p style="top:180.1pt;left:178.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">had had none of the cards on the list, </p> +<p style="top:193.9pt;left:178.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the French event would have had no ef-</p> +<p style="top:207.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">fect.) Cards #37 and #57 both go into a </p> +<p style="top:221.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">discard pile.</p> +<p style="top:251.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase One</b></p> +<p style="top:268.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player now takes an Action </p> +<p style="top:281.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">Phase, choosing to enter reinforcements, </p> +<p style="top:295.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">playing his remaining British Regulars </p> +<p style="top:309.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">(#59) as an Event. He first draws a leader </p> +<p style="top:323.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">randomly from the British leader pool </p> +<p style="top:336.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">(which, at this point, consists of five lead-</p> +<p style="top:350.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">ers), drawing Murray. He then enters one </p> +<p style="top:364.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">new 3-4 unit at New York City (placing </p> +<p style="top:378.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">it in the Loudoun box), and Murray and </p> +<p style="top:391.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">two more 3-4s at Halifax, to add to the </p> +<p style="top:405.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">threat to Louisbourg. Because card #59 </p> +<p style="top:419.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">says “REMOVE” and has been played as </p> +<p style="top:433.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">an Event, it is removed from the game </p> +<p style="top:446.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rather than placed in the discard pile.</p> +<p style="top:476.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Two</b></p> +<p style="top:493.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player could move Lévis’ </p> +<p style="top:507.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">force from Québec to Louisbourg, to </p> +<p style="top:521.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">respond to the British build up at Hali-</p> +<p style="top:534.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">fax, but he decides to rely on his Foul </p> +<p style="top:548.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">Weather response card to block a Brit-</p> +<p style="top:562.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish amphibious strike, and therefore in-</p> +<p style="top:576.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">stead plays #24 Northern Indian Alli-</p> +<p style="top:590.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">ance to build up his own strike force in </p> +<p style="top:603.6pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Champlain region. He rolls one die (a </p> +<p style="top:617.4pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">4), and because he has less than 5 VPs, </p> +<p style="top:631.1pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">halves the result to 2. He chooses two </p> +<p style="top:644.9pt;left:177.5pt;font-size:11.4pt">units—an Algonquin and a Caughnawa-</p> +<p style="top:658.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ga—and enters them at their settlements, Lac des Deux Montagnes </p> +<p style="top:672.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Kahnawake, respectively. He also places French Allied mark-</p> +<p style="top:686.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ers on these two settlements to show that they are now susceptible </p> +<p style="top:699.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to British raids. Card #24 goes to the Discard Pile.</p> +<p style="top:729.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Two</b></p> +<p style="top:746.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player, holding an Amphibious Landing event and seeing </p> +<p style="top:760.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">that the enemy has made no effort to reinforce Louisbourg, decides </p> +<p style="top:774.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">on a serious effort to seize that fortress. He plays #31 [3] to activate </p> +<p style="top:787.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a force under Loudoun. (Even though the card has a French-only </p> +<p style="top:801.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Event, either player can use it for Activation or Construction.) The </p> +<p style="top:815.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">card allows the activation of even a 3-initiative leader like Loud-</p> +<p style="top:829.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">oun and also enables a force to perform a Naval Move. The Brit-</p> +<p style="top:842.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish player designates Abercromby as subordinate (Abercromby’s </p> +<p style="top:856.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">command value is no higher than Loudoun’s). Together, Loudoun </p> +<p style="top:870.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Abercromby’s force activation limit is 14—more than enough </p> +<p style="top:884.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to command the three 4-4 and four 3-4 units at New York City. </p> +<p style="top:897.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Nevertheless, as not all these units will be needed for a maximum </p> +<p style="top:911.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">strength attack on Louisbourg, the British player opts to leave one </p> +<p style="top:337.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">4-4 Royal American and one 3-4 Regular at New York City, as a </p> +<p style="top:351.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">reserve for the Hudson River corridor. He Naval Moves the two </p> +<p style="top:364.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">leaders and the other five units to Halifax, a British port. (Because </p> +<p style="top:378.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the force was already in the Loudoun box, the player can simply </p> +<p style="top:392.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">move Loudoun to Halifax, being sure to move one 4-4 and one 3-4 </p> +<p style="top:406.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">from the Loudoun box to New York City.)</p> +<p style="top:435.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Three</b></p> +<p style="top:452.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Despite the overwhelming force at Halifax, the French player press-</p> +<p style="top:466.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">es on with his plans in the interior. He plays #44 [2] to individually </p> +<p style="top:480.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">activate the Algonquin and Caughnawaga units (which each count </p> +<p style="top:494.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">for half an activation), plus a leader, Montcalm. The Indian units </p> +<p style="top:507.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Montcalm individually move to Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon), </p> +<p style="top:521.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">using boat movement. Because Montcalm has left Montréal with-</p> +<p style="top:535.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">out the units there, the player moves the units in the Montcalm box </p> +<p style="top:549.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to the Vaudreuil box and places Vaudreuil at Montréal.</p> +<p style="top:783.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><i>French Action Phase 3: Montcalm arrives at Ticonderoga.</i></p> +<p style="top:807.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Three</b></p> +<p style="top:824.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player responds to the threat to the Hudson Carry by </p> +<p style="top:838.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">playing #22 Governor Vaudreuil Interferes as an Event. He could </p> +<p style="top:852.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">choose any two French leaders to switch. He chooses Montcalm </p> +<p style="top:865.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Vaudreuil. The French player must place Vaudreuil at Ticond-</p> +<p style="top:879.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">eroga and Montcalm at Montréal (shifting the units in Vaudreuil’s </p> +<p style="top:893.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">box back into Montcalm’s box).</p> +<p style="top:297.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>British Action #2: Loudon, Abercromby and five units naval move </i></p> +<p style="top:311.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>to Halifax.</i></p> +</div> +<div id="page10" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook10.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>10</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Four</b></p> +<p style="top:83.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player could use another card to move Montcalm back </p> +<p style="top:97.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">into position, but decides instead that the force already at Ticond-</p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eroga is sufficient and plays #32 [2] to activate Rigaud—with Bou-</p> +<p style="top:125.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">gainville, two Regulars, one Coureurs and two Indian units—and </p> +<p style="top:138.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">moves the force (it is irrelevant whether by land or boat) into Hud-</p> +<p style="top:152.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">son Carry North (Fort William Henry). Vaudreuil stays behind, be-</p> +<p style="top:166.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cause his initiative rating is too high for him to have been activated </p> +<p style="top:180.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">with a [2] card and his command rating is too high to be a subordi-</p> +<p style="top:193.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">nate to Rigaud. (Bougainville and all the units remain in Rigaud’s </p> +<p style="top:207.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">box and the player simply moves Rigaud to the new space.)</p> +<p style="top:230.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French force has entered a British-occupied space and must </p> +<p style="top:244.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">stop. (The force is more than a lone auxiliary unit and so cannot </p> +<p style="top:257.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Infiltrate.) The British player must decide whether to attempt to </p> +<p style="top:271.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Avoid Battle out of the space, or Intercept into it, or neither. With-</p> +<p style="top:285.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">out a leader in the space, only one of the two Provincial units there </p> +<p style="top:299.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">could Avoid. Up to all four units with Webb—adjacent at Hudson </p> +<p style="top:312.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Carry South (Fort Edward)— could attempt to Intercept. However, </p> +<p style="top:326.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the British player does not want to commit to a large battle (los-</p> +<p style="top:340.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing a battle involving more than four friendly units costs a Victory </p> +<p style="top:354.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Point). He decides to reinforce William Henry with only a single </p> +<p style="top:367.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">unit, in this case, the Rangers. The Interception succeeds (roll of 4), </p> +<p style="top:381.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the Rangers unit at Hudson Carry South is placed at Hudson </p> +<p style="top:395.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Carry North, and the French will attack at least the Rangers in a </p> +<p style="top:409.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">battle.</p> +<p style="top:431.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Now the British player must decide whether the two Provincial </p> +<p style="top:445.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">units will defend outside the fort along with the Rangers, or remain </p> +<p style="top:459.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">inside. The British player decides to risk the units in a field battle—</p> +<p style="top:473.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in part because he risks no VPs with his small force, while a victory </p> +<p style="top:486.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">would earn 1 VP, because the French force contains Regulars (and, </p> +<p style="top:500.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">even if it had no Regulars, it has more than four units). </p> +<p style="top:523.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The players resolve the battle. The attacker (the French) has no </p> +<p style="top:537.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">events that can be used in the battle. The British are holding an Am-</p> +<p style="top:551.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">bush! event, but cannot play it because the French have more aux-</p> +<p style="top:564.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">iliaries (two Indian and one Coureurs units) than the British (one </p> +<p style="top:578.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Rangers unit) in the battle. Players consult the Combat Results </p> +<p style="top:592.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Table (CRT) and each rolls one die. The French have nine strength </p> +<p style="top:605.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">points and the British have six. There are no die roll modifiers </p> +<p style="top:619.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(DRMs): the space is wilderness, but both sides have auxiliaries; </p> +<p style="top:633.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the French commander, Rigaud, has a tactical rating of 0. The </p> +<p style="top:647.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player rolls a 3 for a result of two step losses on the Brit-</p> +<p style="top:660.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish. The British player rolls a 4, resulting in two step losses on the </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French. The British flip their two Provincial units to their reduced </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sides (wishing to preserve the more valuable Rangers). The first </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French casualty must be a Drilled unit, so the French player flips </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">one 3-4 Regular and then flips the Algonquin Indian unit. No one </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">rolled a natural 1 or 6, so there are no leader loss checks. Because </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the defender wins a tie, Rigaud and his force must retreat whence </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">they came, to their fort at Ticonderoga, and the British receive a </p> +<p style="top:163.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">VP, sliding the VP marker to French 3.</p> +<p style="top:193.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Four</b></p> +<p style="top:209.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player decides to draw on his reserve at New York City </p> +<p style="top:223.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to beef up the defense of William Henry. He plays #12 [1] to indi-</p> +<p style="top:237.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">vidually activate the 4-4 Royal American. He uses boat movement </p> +<p style="top:251.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to bring the 4-4 up the Hudson river to Hudson Carry South, then </p> +<p style="top:264.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">across the portage to Hudson Carry North. The French player could </p> +<p style="top:278.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">have used the Foul Weather card he is holding to slow down the </p> +<p style="top:292.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Royal Americans, but holds it to block a prospective attack on Lou-</p> +<p style="top:306.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">isbourg. French Interception at Hudson Carry North is not possible </p> +<p style="top:319.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">because the space is already occupied by the British.</p> +<p style="top:729.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>The 4-4 Royal American reinforces the British position at Hudson </i></p> +<p style="top:743.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Carry North.</i></p> +<p style="top:773.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Five</b></p> +<p style="top:789.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Having botched his attack on Lake George, the French player de-</p> +<p style="top:803.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cides to take advantage of political conflicts between the British </p> +<p style="top:817.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">crown and its colonies to pressure their frontiers. He plays #41 </p> +<p style="top:831.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British Colonial Politics as an Event. The Provincial Assemblies </p> +<p style="top:844.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">marker is moved one box in the direction of the French edge of </p> +<p style="top:858.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the map, from Supportive to Reluctant. The British player finds </p> +<p style="top:872.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">that he has only six Northern Provincials on the map—still within </p> +<p style="top:886.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Northern limit—but must remove two Southern units to keep </p> +<p style="top:899.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">within their new limit of two. He chooses to eliminate Southern </p> +<p style="top:913.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">units at Shamokin and Shepherd’s Ferry.</p> +<p style="top:891.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Rigaud attacks Hudson Carry North with 9 SPs. The British player </i></p> +<p style="top:905.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>successfully interecepts and sends the Rangers as reinforcements.</i></p> +</div> +<div id="page11" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook11.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:695.0pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>11</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Five</b></p> +<p style="top:83.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player notes the thinning </p> +<p style="top:97.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of his defenses in the south, but never-</p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">theless attempts to seize the initiative </p> +<p style="top:125.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">by launching his major operation for </p> +<p style="top:138.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the season—an amphibious assault on </p> +<p style="top:152.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Louisbourg. He plays #28 [3] and states </p> +<p style="top:166.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">that he is activating all leaders and units </p> +<p style="top:180.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">at Halifax in a force under Loudoun. </p> +<p style="top:193.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player can see what’s com-</p> +<p style="top:207.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing and immediately—before the Brit-</p> +<p style="top:221.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish player moves his force—plays #14 </p> +<p style="top:235.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Foul Weather (the Event’s name has a </p> +<p style="top:248.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">brown background around it, and there-</p> +<p style="top:262.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fore can be played as a response in the middle of an Action Phase). </p> +<p style="top:276.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British force is prevented from any Naval Move, and therefore </p> +<p style="top:290.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">is stuck at Halifax for its activation. </p> +<p style="top:319.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Six</b></p> +<p style="top:336.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player now suspects that his opponent is indeed hold-</p> +<p style="top:350.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing an Amphibious Landing card. The question remains whether </p> +<p style="top:364.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">either of the other two cards in the British hand are 3-value cards </p> +<p style="top:378.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">that could allow a Naval Move by more than an individual unit. </p> +<p style="top:391.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player decides to risk that possibility, to ignore the </p> +<p style="top:405.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">maritime threat, and to press his border war on the British colonies. </p> +<p style="top:419.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">He plays #36 [2] for individual activation of the Huron and Missis-</p> +<p style="top:433.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sauga (one activation point)—which each perform Boat Movement </p> +<p style="top:446.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(representing canoes, of course) along the seven spaces from Mon-</p> +<p style="top:460.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tréal to Oneida Carry West—and the Shawnee and Mingo units </p> +<p style="top:474.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(the second activation point)—which move to Allegheny South, </p> +<p style="top:488.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">where they must stop. The British provincial at Winchester—a </p> +<p style="top:501.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Drilled unit—cannot intercept individual Auxiliary units entering </p> +<p style="top:515.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Allegheny South because the space is mountain.</p> +<p style="top:771.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>French Action #6 moves four Indian units at the cost of 2 Activa-</i></p> +<p style="top:785.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>tion Points</i></p> +<p style="top:815.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Six</b></p> +<p style="top:832.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Fresh out of 3-value cards, the British player must wait for the next </p> +<p style="top:845.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">season before launching his naval assault. Instead he responds to </p> +<p style="top:859.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the threat to Virginia by playing #5 for Construction, completing </p> +<p style="top:873.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the fort at Winchester (Fort Loudoun)—where there is an in-supply </p> +<p style="top:887.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Drilled unit (the Southern Provincial)—so as to free up the South-</p> +<p style="top:900.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ern unit there for interception, chasing, or blocking the Shawnee </p> +<p style="top:914.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Mingo.</p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Seven</b></p> +<p style="top:83.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French play #46 [2] to activate the same four Indian units as </p> +<p style="top:97.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in the previous French phase. (He tilts the four unit counters as a </p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">reminder of which units he activated, as he carries out the actions </p> +<p style="top:125.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of each in succession). (See illustration on next page.)</p> +<p style="top:147.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a) The Mingo Infiltrate through the stockade space Augusta (rather </p> +<p style="top:161.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">than Woodstock, so as to avoid possible Interception from Win-</p> +<p style="top:175.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">chester) into Culpeper. Having ended movement in an enemy cul-</p> +<p style="top:189.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tivated space, the unit must Raid and rolls on the cultivated column </p> +<p style="top:202.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of the Raid Table. There are no modifiers (there is only one unit in </p> +<p style="top:216.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Southern Colonial Militias box). The French player rolls a 4—a </p> +<p style="top:230.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">failed Raid and one step loss. He flips the Mingo and places him in </p> +<p style="top:244.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">his home settlement, Mingo Town.</p> +<p style="top:266.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">b) The Shawnee repeats the Infiltration and Raid against Culpeper, </p> +<p style="top:280.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">rolling a 5—a Successful raid and one step loss. A Raided marker </p> +<p style="top:294.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">is placed at Culpeper; the Shawnee unit is flipped and placed in </p> +<p style="top:308.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Logstown.</p> +<p style="top:330.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">c) Next, the Huron at Oneida Carry West move by land through </p> +<p style="top:344.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Oneida Castle, Canajoharie and Schoharie—and daringly attempt </p> +<p style="top:358.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to Infiltrate the Albany space into Kinderhook. (Indian settlements </p> +<p style="top:372.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">are no hindrance to movement; the Drilled units at Schenectady </p> +<p style="top:385.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Albany cannot Intercept the lone Auxiliary Huron in any of </p> +<p style="top:399.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the traversed wilderness spaces; and the Huron auxiliary can enter </p> +<p style="top:413.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">an enemy fortress space because it is attempting to Infiltrate.) The </p> +<p style="top:427.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British player can now attempt an Intercept in Albany with any one </p> +<p style="top:440.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">unit or force in Albany, Schenectady or Hudson Carry South. He </p> +<p style="top:454.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">does not want to redeploy any units, so attempts with a Regular at </p> +<p style="top:468.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Albany (but fails on a roll of 3). The Huron has passed through an </p> +<p style="top:482.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">enemy cultivated space (Albany) and so must stop at Kinderhook, </p> +<p style="top:495.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">where it Raids. The roll is a 6—a Success with no loss. A Raided </p> +<p style="top:509.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">marker is placed in the space and the lucky Huron unit goes home </p> +<p style="top:523.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to Pays d’en Haut.</p> +<p style="top:546.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">d) Finally, the Mississauga move by land due south to Station </p> +<p style="top:559.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Point, then East Delaware, and into the stockade space of Easton. </p> +<p style="top:573.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">They cannot Infiltrate into Trenton or Reading because they are </p> +<p style="top:587.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">out of movement points. Because the would-be raiders have ended </p> +<p style="top:601.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in an otherwise empty stockade space in the Southern Department </p> +<p style="top:614.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">(Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania), the British may deploy a </p> +<p style="top:628.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Militia unit from that Department’s Militias box to Easton to force </p> +<p style="top:642.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a battle before the Raid attempt (unlike joining a battle involv-</p> +<p style="top:656.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing other British units, which would be prohibited by the Raided </p> +<p style="top:669.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">marker at Culpeper—note the distinction between rules 7.3 and </p> +<p style="top:683.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">10.2). The Mississauga must attack the Militia in a battle, suffering </p> +<p style="top:697.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a –1 DRM because the Militia have a stockade. Both sides roll on </p> +<p style="top:711.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the 1 column of the CRT, in this case the Mississauga and Militia </p> +<p style="top:724.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">each achieve no effect. With the result a tie, the Mississauga at-</p> +<p style="top:738.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tacker, having lost the battle, must retreat to East Delaware. The </p> +<p style="top:752.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Militia units returns to the Southern Militias box. If East Delaware </p> +<p style="top:766.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">were a cultivated space, a raid attempt would ensue there, but it is </p> +<p style="top:779.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">wilderness. </p> +<p style="top:809.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Seven</b></p> +<p style="top:826.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In his Action Phase, the British player cannot build any stockades </p> +<p style="top:840.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in response to the Raids (construction is not allowed with two cards </p> +<p style="top:854.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in a row). There are no longer any Indians nearby to chase off with </p> +<p style="top:867.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Provincial at Winchester. So, he continues to reinforce William </p> +<p style="top:881.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Henry by activating the 3-4 Regular at New York City with #38 [2] </p> +<p style="top:895.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and boat moving it to Hudson Carry North. (A 2- or 3-value card </p> +<p style="top:909.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">can individually activate only one Drilled unit.)</p> +</div> +<div id="page12" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook12.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>12</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:483.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Eight</b></p> +<p style="top:500.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player plays his final card, #48 Victories in Germany, </p> +<p style="top:513.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">as an Event. He has only one reduced Regular unit, in the Rigaud </p> +<p style="top:527.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">box (meaning, at Ticonderoga), and flips it back to full strength.</p> +<p style="top:557.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Eight</b></p> +<p style="top:574.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player decides to hold his last card, #17 Amphibious </p> +<p style="top:588.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Landing, for the next season, to guarantee he will have such an </p> +<p style="top:601.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Event available for the planned assault on Louisbourg. He places </p> +<p style="top:615.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the British Card Held marker on the Early Season 1757 space of </p> +<p style="top:629.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Year track as a reminder that he will not be permitted to so hold </p> +<p style="top:643.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a card in the following season. </p> +<p style="top:668.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>Late Season 1757</b></p> +<p style="top:693.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The Season marker is advanced to Late Season 1757 and new cards </p> +<p style="top:707.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">are dealt until each player again holds nine cards.</p> +<p style="top:737.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Hand</b></p> +<p style="top:754.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#1 Campaign [3]</p> +<p style="top:768.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#2 Campaign [3]</p> +<p style="top:781.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#8 Coehorns [1]</p> +<p style="top:795.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#16 George Croghan [1]</p> +<p style="top:809.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#21 Louisbourg Squadrons [3]</p> +<p style="top:823.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#26 Western Indian Alliance [2]</p> +<p style="top:836.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#34 Small Pox [3]</p> +<p style="top:850.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#35 Courier Intercepted! [3]</p> +<p style="top:864.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#56 French Regulars [3]</p> +<p style="top:885.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Hand</b></p> +<p style="top:902.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Held: #17 Amphibious Landing [1]</p> +<p style="top:915.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#4 Campaign [3]</p> +<p style="top:483.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#6 Surrender! [3]</p> +<p style="top:496.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#7 Massacre! [1]</p> +<p style="top:510.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#43 Raise Provincial Regiments [2]</p> +<p style="top:524.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#47 Troop Transports [3]</p> +<p style="top:538.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#49 Call Out Militias [1]</p> +<p style="top:551.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#54 Light Infantry [2]</p> +<p style="top:565.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">#58 British Regulars [3]</p> +<p style="top:590.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player again has the first Action Phase.</p> +<p style="top:620.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase One</b></p> +<p style="top:637.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Thanking his lucky star for drawing </p> +<p style="top:651.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">#21 Louisbourg Squadrons just as </p> +<p style="top:664.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Loudoun’s army is bearing down on </p> +<p style="top:678.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the French fortress port, he decides to </p> +<p style="top:692.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">risk the fortunes of the French navy and </p> +<p style="top:706.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">play the event (even though its benefits </p> +<p style="top:719.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to him will last only one hand, because </p> +<p style="top:733.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">it is already Late Season). He rolls a </p> +<p style="top:747.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">5, so the card is discarded rather than </p> +<p style="top:761.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">removed from play, and there is no im-</p> +<p style="top:774.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">pact on French naval movement or Brit-</p> +<p style="top:788.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish ability to play the Quiberon event. </p> +<p style="top:802.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player will not be able to </p> +<p style="top:816.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">play Amphibious Landing events this season, and a Louisbourg </p> +<p style="top:829.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Squadrons - No Amphib marker is placed on the Season marker </p> +<p style="top:843.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">as a reminder.</p> +<p style="top:873.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase One</b></p> +<p style="top:890.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">His offensive plan thwarted for the season, the British player re-</p> +<p style="top:904.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">verts to defensive measures. He chooses #43 for Construction. (He </p> +<p style="top:917.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cannot play the Raise Provincial Regiments event, because Pro-</p> +<p style="top:459.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>French Action #7: Four Indian Raids.</i></p> +</div> +<div id="page13" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook13.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>13</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vincial Assemblies are Reluctant.) He cannot finish the fort under </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">construction at Shepherd’s Ferry because there is no Drilled unit </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">there. He can build stockades in empty cultivated spaces, doing so </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">at Ashby’s Gap, Virginia and Trenton, New Jersey, to help defend </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">against further Indian Infiltration. (He does not build at Culpeper, </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to avoid offering the French any further VPs in the already Raided </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">space this year.)</p> +<p style="top:337.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>British Acti on #1: The British player builds Stockades at Ashby’s </i></p> +<p style="top:350.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Gap and Trenton. Note Raid marker at Culpeper.</i></p> +<p style="top:380.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Two</b></p> +<p style="top:397.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player decides to take advantage of the rather ill-posi-</p> +<p style="top:411.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tioned British forces to resume the offensive on the central Cham-</p> +<p style="top:425.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">plain front—this time with a full-fledged force. First, however, he </p> +<p style="top:438.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">plays #34 Small Pox as an Event, designating Hudson Carry North </p> +<p style="top:452.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">as the affected space, which qualifies because there are five units </p> +<p style="top:466.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">there. The roll is a 3, halved (rounding up) to 2. The overcrowded </p> +<p style="top:480.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">conditions at Fort William Henry result in reduction of the 3-4 reg-</p> +<p style="top:493.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ular and the 4-4 Royal American units (the British player deciding </p> +<p style="top:507.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to preserve the Rangers; the Provincials are ineligible because they </p> +<p style="top:521.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">are already reduced).</p> +<p style="top:551.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Two</b></p> +<p style="top:568.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player anticipates the threat to the Hudson. With Lou-</p> +<p style="top:581.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">doun too far away, he plays #4 Campaign as an Event to mass a </p> +<p style="top:595.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">defense under Webb at Fort Edward. He designates the two forces </p> +<p style="top:609.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to be activated as Dunbar and his two 3-4 Regulars at Albany and </p> +<p style="top:623.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Johnson and his troops at Schenectady. First, he moves Dunbar’s </p> +<p style="top:636.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">force to Hudson Carry South. Second, he moves Johnson with the </p> +<p style="top:650.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">2-4 Provincial and the 4-4 Highlander to the same destination, </p> +<p style="top:664.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">drops off the units there, and then continues moving with Johnson </p> +<p style="top:678.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(who has 6 MPs) and returns to Schenectady—to be in position </p> +<p style="top:691.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">should an opportunity to recruit Mohawks or the Iroquois arise in </p> +<p style="top:705.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the future.</p> +<p style="top:893.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Johnson and Dunbar reinforce Hudson Carry North with four units </i></p> +<p style="top:906.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>(12 factors). Johnson returns to Schenectady.</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Three</b></p> +<p style="top:83.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Keeping up with—or, rather, surpassing—the British reinforce-</p> +<p style="top:97.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ment of the Lake George area, the French play #1 Campaign as an </p> +<p style="top:111.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Event. Lévis with his three 3-4s move by boat eight spaces from </p> +<p style="top:125.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Québec to Ticonderoga. Then Montcalm with his full army at </p> +<p style="top:138.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montréal—two 3-4s, one Coureurs unit, and the Potawatomi and </p> +<p style="top:152.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ojibwa—move by boat to join Lévis at Ticonderoga. (For conve-</p> +<p style="top:166.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">nience, the French player consolidates all the leaders and units un-</p> +<p style="top:180.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">der Montcalm—seven 3-4s, two Coureurs units, four Indian units, </p> +<p style="top:193.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and four leaders—placing them in the Montcalm box.)</p> +<p style="top:375.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>The situation at Ticonderoga and Hudson Carry South after both </i></p> +<p style="top:389.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>players have played Campaign cards to bring in reinforcements.</i></p> +<p style="top:419.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Three</b></p> +<p style="top:436.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">With a true strategic threat facing Albany, the British player ex-</p> +<p style="top:450.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">pends #47 [3] to return Loudoun’s army to the Hudson. Loudoun </p> +<p style="top:463.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">with Abercromby, three 3-4s and two 4-4s conduct a Naval Move </p> +<p style="top:477.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to New York City, leaving Monckton and Murray behind at Halifax </p> +<p style="top:491.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">with five 3-4 units. </p> +<p style="top:521.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Four</b></p> +<p style="top:538.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player wishes to try #35 </p> +<p style="top:551.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Courier Intercepted! before launch-</p> +<p style="top:565.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing his expedition against Fort William </p> +<p style="top:579.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Henry and so plays it as an Event. He </p> +<p style="top:593.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rolls a 4, allowing him to select a card at </p> +<p style="top:606.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">random from the British player’s hand. </p> +<p style="top:620.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The card he chooses turns out to be #6 </p> +<p style="top:634.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Surrender! and he adds it to his own </p> +<p style="top:648.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">hand. (This card will cause a reshuf-</p> +<p style="top:661.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fle at the end of this hand, unless the </p> +<p style="top:675.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player decides to hold it until </p> +<p style="top:689.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the next hand.)</p> +<p style="top:719.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Four</b></p> +<p style="top:736.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Judging that the army at Fort Edward is sufficient defense against </p> +<p style="top:749.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm for the moment, the British player uses the respite from </p> +<p style="top:763.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French operations to enter reinforcements. He plays #58 British </p> +<p style="top:777.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Regulars as an Event, removing it from the game. He draws the </p> +<p style="top:791.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">leader Forbes from the pool and places him at Philadelphia (for an </p> +<p style="top:804.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">eventual expedition against Fort Duquesne). He then takes three </p> +<p style="top:818.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">new 3-4 units and chooses to place one at Philadelphia, one at New </p> +<p style="top:832.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">York City and one at Halifax.</p> +<p style="top:862.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Five</b></p> +<p style="top:879.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player now launches his assault on the Hudson defens-</p> +<p style="top:892.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">es. He plays #16 [1] to activate Montcalm and all the leaders and </p> +<p style="top:906.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">units with him as a force, and moves the force into Hudson Carry </p> +<p style="top:920.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">North (simply placing the Montcalm leader at that space).</p> +</div> +<div id="page14" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook14.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>14</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player attempts to Intercept with Webb, in command </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of all the units at Hudson Carry South. However, he rolls a 3 and </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fails. He now wishes to defend inside the fort, but only four of the </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">five units at Hudson Carry North will fit, and he cannot attempt to </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Avoid Battle because he has already attempted Interception into </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the space. He decides to defend inside the fort, but leaves one unit, </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in this case a reduced Provincial, outside to fight a battle (he places </p> +<p style="top:163.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the other four units underneath the fort marker). The French attack </p> +<p style="top:176.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">is strong enough to guarantee eliminating the unit, but the British </p> +<p style="top:190.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">player must roll to see if he causes any French losses. He rolls a 1 </p> +<p style="top:204.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(No Effect). There is no leader loss check because no step losses </p> +<p style="top:218.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">occurred. The Provincial unit is removed.<i> </i></p> +<p style="top:237.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Because the space is occupied by French units and a British fort, </p> +<p style="top:251.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a siege begins. The French player places a Siege 0 marker on the </p> +<p style="top:265.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fort. He cannot roll yet on the Siege Table because his force did not </p> +<p style="top:278.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">begin its activation in that space.</p> +<p style="top:443.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Situation after the British withdraw into Fort William Henry.</i></p> +<p style="top:473.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Five</b></p> +<p style="top:490.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player has no remaining 3-value cards and so cannot </p> +<p style="top:504.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">activate either Webb’s or Loudoun’s armies to respond to Mont-</p> +<p style="top:517.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">calm. Otherwise ill positioned to relieve the besieged fort, he de-</p> +<p style="top:531.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cides to leave William Henry to its fate. He plays #17 to continue </p> +<p style="top:545.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">his construction of frontier defenses, placing a stockade at Wright’s </p> +<p style="top:559.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ferry. (The Amphibious Landing is useless now, because of “Lou-</p> +<p style="top:572.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">isbourg Squadrons” and because he may not hold any cards for the </p> +<p style="top:586.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">next season.)</p> +<p style="top:768.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>The British player builds a Stockade at Wright’s Ferry. This illus-</i></p> +<p style="top:782.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>tration also shows Loudoun’s army at New York after it returned in </i></p> +<p style="top:796.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Action Phase 3 and the arrival of Forbes in Action Phase 4. </i></p> +<p style="top:826.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Six</b></p> +<p style="top:842.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player now prosecutes his siege of William Henry, </p> +<p style="top:856.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">playing #8 [1] to activate Montcalm’s force. With Montcalm’s tac-</p> +<p style="top:870.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tical rating of 2, the French are guaranteed to reach Siege Level </p> +<p style="top:884.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">1 and be able to Assault. But, because the French player wants to </p> +<p style="top:897.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">avoid the possibility of casualties (including Montcalm) and wants </p> +<p style="top:911.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to capture the fort intact to speed his expedition toward Albany, he </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">plays #6 Surrender! (which has a name </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">with a brown background and therefore </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">is playable during the phase). He places </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the event card face up on the draw pile </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">as a reminder that a reshuffle will occur </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">before the next hand. As a result of the </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Surrender!, the British fort marker at </p> +<p style="top:163.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Hudson Carry North is replaced with a </p> +<p style="top:176.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">completed French fort marker, and the </p> +<p style="top:190.6pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">four British units there are moved to the </p> +<p style="top:204.4pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fort at Hudson Carry South. The French </p> +<p style="top:218.1pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">receive 2 VPs, moving the VP marker </p> +<p style="top:231.9pt;left:521.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to French 5.</p> +<p style="top:254.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player takes advantage of </p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the fact that his fortification fell to a </p> +<p style="top:282.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">force including both Drilled and Indian </p> +<p style="top:295.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">units, and immediately plays #7 Mas-</p> +<p style="top:310.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sacre! (this event has a brown back-</p> +<p style="top:323.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ground around its name, and therefore </p> +<p style="top:337.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">is playable during the French Action </p> +<p style="top:350.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Phase). The British receive 1 VP, mov-</p> +<p style="top:364.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing the VP marker to French 4. The four </p> +<p style="top:378.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indian units with Montcalm are elimi-</p> +<p style="top:392.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">nated, and the French player removes </p> +<p style="top:405.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the FRENCH ALLIED markers from </p> +<p style="top:419.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Lac des Deux Montagnes and Kahnawake, because there are no </p> +<p style="top:433.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">longer any Algonquin or Caughnawaga units on the map.</p> +<p style="top:598.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>The situation after the </i><i>M</i><i>assacre</i><i>!</i><i> Montcalm in possession of Fort </i></p> +<p style="top:612.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>William Henry but without his Indian allies. The four British units </i></p> +<p style="top:625.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>from Hudson Carry North are now in Hudson Carry South.</i></p> +<p style="top:655.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Six</b></p> +<p style="top:672.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player enters more troops with #54 Light Infantry. </p> +<p style="top:686.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The leader he draws is Bradstreet, whom he places in Albany with </p> +<p style="top:700.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">one 2-6 unit, placing a second 2-6 at Halifax.</p> +<p style="top:729.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Seven</b></p> +<p style="top:746.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Having lost Montcalm’s Indians to the unexpected massacre, the </p> +<p style="top:760.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player reconsiders his campaign plan. Looking at his hand, </p> +<p style="top:774.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">he decides that he would like to play both the Regulars and Indian </p> +<p style="top:788.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Alliance as events, leaving him with too few activations to drive </p> +<p style="top:801.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">on Albany. Also, with British strength continuing to build along </p> +<p style="top:815.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Hudson, he decides that it is time to shift to the defensive there. </p> +<p style="top:829.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Furthermore, a buffer of wilderness is desirable.</p> +<p style="top:852.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">He plays #4 Campaign as an Event, using it to activate Montcalm’s </p> +<p style="top:865.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">army, plus Villiers, at Cataraqui (Fort Frontenac), who will com-</p> +<p style="top:879.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">mand a Coureurs unit.</p> +<p style="top:902.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a) Montcalm moves north by boat, dropping off a small winter gar-</p> +<p style="top:916.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">rison for Fort Carillon (Bougainville, two 3-4s and a Couriers unit) </p> +</div> +<div id="page15" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook15.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>15</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">on his way through Ticonderoga. He continues with the remainder </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of his force to Montréal for the winter. During his activation, the </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French player demolishes the newly-captured fort at Hudson Carry </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">North in order to keep it out of British hands. This reduces VPs to </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French 3.</p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">b) With Villiers, the French player takes advantage of Montcalm </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">having drawn British forces away from the Mohawk River. Villiers </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the Coureurs move by </p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">land over the six spaces to </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Schenectady (whether via </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Oswego or West Canada </p> +<p style="top:227.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Creek doesn’t matter) to </p> +<p style="top:240.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Raid. Bradstreet, at Alba-</p> +<p style="top:254.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ny, has a good chance to </p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">intercept (on a 3 or higher </p> +<p style="top:282.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">because of his Tactics rat-</p> +<p style="top:295.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing) with his Light Infan-</p> +<p style="top:309.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">try (Schenectady is culti-</p> +<p style="top:323.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vated, so the drilled Light </p> +<p style="top:337.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Infantry may intercept the </p> +<p style="top:350.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">lone Coureurs unit). But, </p> +<p style="top:364.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">capping a bad year for the </p> +<p style="top:378.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">British player, he rolls a </p> +<p style="top:392.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">2 and fails. There are no </p> +<p style="top:405.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Militia in the Northern </p> +<p style="top:419.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">box to deploy. Johnson </p> +<p style="top:433.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">is alone with enemy units </p> +<p style="top:447.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and must retreat, and is </p> +<p style="top:460.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">placed in Albany.</p> +<p style="top:483.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Villiers and his Coureurs now raid the stockade. They receive a </p> +<p style="top:497.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">+1 for Tactics and roll a 4 on the Stockade column. The result is </p> +<p style="top:511.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">“Success/1”. The French player removes the stockade and places </p> +<p style="top:524.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a Raided marker (no VPs are received for destroying the stockade, </p> +<p style="top:538.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">it was destroyed in a Raid). He flips the Coureurs unit to 0-6 and </p> +<p style="top:552.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">places it with Villiers at the nearest fortification, Fort Carillon (the </p> +<p style="top:566.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ticonderoga space). </p> +<p style="top:596.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>British Action Phase Seven</b></p> +<p style="top:612.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British player must now play his last card, #49 Call Out Mi-</p> +<p style="top:627.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">litias [1]. He would like to add a Militia unit, especially to the </p> +<p style="top:640.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Southern box in order to receive a –1 against raids there. However, </p> +<p style="top:654.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">he also wants to save at least one unit from the attrition looming </p> +<p style="top:667.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">at the overcrowded Fort Edward. He uses the card individually to </p> +<p style="top:681.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">activate the 4-4 Highlander unit at Hudson Carry South and moves </p> +<p style="top:695.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">it to better winter quarters at Albany.</p> +<p style="top:725.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Eight</b></p> +<p style="top:742.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French player now plays his remaining cards in succession, </p> +<p style="top:755.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">because the British hand is empty. He plays #56 French Regulars </p> +<p style="top:769.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">as an Event, placing two 3-4s at Québec and removing the card </p> +<p style="top:783.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">from play.</p> +<p style="top:813.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>French Action Phase Nine</b></p> +<p style="top:830.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">He then plays #26 Western Indian Alliance as an Event. He still </p> +<p style="top:843.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">has less than 5 VPs and must halve the die roll (rounding up). His </p> +<p style="top:857.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">roll is a 1 which, halved and rounded up, remains a 1. He can flip </p> +<p style="top:871.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">two reduced Indian units for every new unit he may place, so uses </p> +<p style="top:885.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the result to flip the previously reduced Shawnee and Mingo units </p> +<p style="top:898.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">both back to full strength.</p> +<p style="top:423.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>Indians & Leaders Go Home Phase</b></p> +<p style="top:440.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">This was the last Action Phase of a Late Season, so the Indians & </p> +<p style="top:453.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Leaders Go Home Phase follows. There are no lone leaders and the </p> +<p style="top:467.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">only Indians not in fortifications or their settlements is the Missis-</p> +<p style="top:481.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sauga unit at East Delaware. The French player places the unit in </p> +<p style="top:495.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Mississauga settlement space. </p> +<p style="top:524.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>Remove Raided Markers Phases</b></p> +<p style="top:541.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French have three markers for 1-<sup>1</sup>/2 VPs which, rounded up to </p> +<p style="top:555.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">2 VPs, moves the VP marker to French 5. </p> +<p style="top:585.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:12.0pt"><b>Winter Attrition Phase</b></p> +<p style="top:602.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">All units outside friendly cultivated spaces are in fortifications and </p> +<p style="top:616.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in stacks of four units or fewer, except for Webb’s army of ten </p> +<p style="top:629.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">units at Hudson Carry South. The Ranger unit (an Auxiliary) is </p> +<p style="top:643.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">unaffected. Three drilled units are already reduced, of which the </p> +<p style="top:657.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British player must eliminate two (every odd unit—the first and the </p> +<p style="top:671.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">third). He chooses to eliminate the reduced Provincial and the 2-4 </p> +<p style="top:684.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Regular, leaving a reduced Royal American unit in place. He then </p> +<p style="top:698.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">flips the remaining six Provincial and Regular units in the space to </p> +<p style="top:712.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">their reduced sides. The British have lost more troops this year to </p> +<p style="top:726.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">deprivation and sickness than to battle. </p> +<p style="top:748.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>Victory Check Phase:</b> Neither player has more than 10 VPs, so </p> +<p style="top:762.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the game proceeds to 1758. The Surrender! card has appeared, so </p> +<p style="top:776.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the players shuffle the discard and draw piles together to form a </p> +<p style="top:790.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fresh draw pile for Early Season 1758.</p> +<p style="top:812.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The year 1757 has seen poor planning and mishandling of oppor-</p> +<p style="top:826.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tunities by both sides. Although the French made only small gains, </p> +<p style="top:840.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">they did manage to keep the British off balance in what must have </p> +<p style="top:854.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">been a disappointing year for King George. In 1758, the British </p> +<p style="top:867.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">must make better use of their growing superiority in forces, per-</p> +<p style="top:881.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">haps with major expeditions up the Hudson, to Louisbourg, or in </p> +<p style="top:895.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the west to destroy the bases of the French and Indian frontier raid-</p> +<p style="top:909.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ers. Now it’s time for you to carry the flag forward and improve on </p> +<p style="top:922.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">this record!</p> +<p style="top:382.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Situation at the conclusion of the Action Phases. Montcalm is back </i></p> +<p style="top:395.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>at Montréal, and the British have 10 units at Hudson Carry South.</i></p> +</div> +<div id="page16" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook16.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>16</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>STRATEGY NOTES</b></p> +<p style="top:92.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>General</b></p> +<p style="top:111.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> explores the interplay between the conven-</p> +<p style="top:125.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tional European military methods of the 18th Century and the </p> +<p style="top:139.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">raiding and other forms of petit guerre common on the American </p> +<p style="top:153.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">frontier. Consequently, there are two general methods of gaining </p> +<p style="top:166.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">victory points in the game. During the course of their campaigns, </p> +<p style="top:180.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">players will have to decide between throwing their resources into </p> +<p style="top:194.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the massing of conventional armies and the capture of fortifications </p> +<p style="top:208.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and cities or into the border war of frontier raiding and skirmish-</p> +<p style="top:221.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing.</p> +<p style="top:244.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The tradeoffs will not often be obvious. Capturing a fortress or </p> +<p style="top:258.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">string of forts and stockades can yield a large cache of victory </p> +<p style="top:272.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">points quickly. But the constant trickle of a victory point here and </p> +<p style="top:285.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">there from raids—which are cheap and low risk—can add up to a </p> +<p style="top:299.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">war-winning lead, even before a more cumbersome and often risky </p> +<p style="top:313.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">conventional offensive yields results.</p> +<p style="top:336.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Similarly, activating a large force under a single leader can be a </p> +<p style="top:349.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">very efficient way to move troops. But the effectiveness of activat-</p> +<p style="top:363.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing individually—especially with Indians—for dispersed raiding </p> +<p style="top:377.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">operations should not be underestimated. </p> +<p style="top:400.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Construction will play a key role in either method of conflict. The </p> +<p style="top:413.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">first means of countering raids is to protect cultivated spaces with </p> +<p style="top:427.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">stockades. Alone, they increase losses among the raiders. Used in </p> +<p style="top:441.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a system—built to complete coverage and backed by militia and </p> +<p style="top:455.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(if using the Intercept rule) a scattering of drilled troops—they can </p> +<p style="top:468.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">thwart individual raiding parties almost every time.</p> +<p style="top:491.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">For a conventional offensive, stockades and forts facilitate move-</p> +<p style="top:505.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ment by drilled troops through the wilderness and allow a garrison </p> +<p style="top:519.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to remain through the winter without attrition. Defensively, forts </p> +<p style="top:532.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">slow down an enemy campaign by forcing him to stop and siege. </p> +<p style="top:546.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">But be careful how many you build and don’t neglect to demolish </p> +<p style="top:560.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">them when necessary, for otherwise their loss will yield victory </p> +<p style="top:574.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">points to the enemy!</p> +<p style="top:596.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Beyond the two styles of warfare, players will have to decide upon </p> +<p style="top:610.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">which geographic axes to center their efforts—and how, and to </p> +<p style="top:624.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">what degree, to counter enemy efforts along each.</p> +<p style="top:647.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The importance of the maritime axis—Halifax to Louisbourg to </p> +<p style="top:660.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Québec—is evident. It contains two of New France’s three for-</p> +<p style="top:674.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tresses, which are worth 3 victory points each and cannot run away </p> +<p style="top:688.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">nor be demolished. And loss of Louisbourg can cut the French </p> +<p style="top:702.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">army of regulars off from European reinforcement, either by lead-</p> +<p style="top:715.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing to the loss of Québec or by tilting the naval balance decisively </p> +<p style="top:729.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">against France at Quiberon. </p> +<p style="top:752.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">A maritime campaign is a high stakes affair for both sides, how-</p> +<p style="top:766.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ever. Every amphibious landing by regulars that is repelled costs </p> +<p style="top:779.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the British a victory point; siege and assault of a fortress is not a </p> +<p style="top:793.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">trivial challenge; and if a large British army is still sitting outside </p> +<p style="top:807.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the walls of Louisbourg or Québec when winter comes, attrition </p> +<p style="top:821.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">will be devastating.</p> +<p style="top:843.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Meanwhile, what is happening in the interior? Both players have </p> +<p style="top:857.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">multiple axes available for conventional campaigns—principally </p> +<p style="top:871.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">defined by the waterways. The Lake Champlain-Hudson corridor </p> +<p style="top:885.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in the center is the most direct route to enemy fortresses. But the </p> +<p style="top:898.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">West should not be ignored: lucrative targets at Ohio Forks and </p> +<p style="top:912.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Niagara beckon the British; the French must secure their waterway </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">westward should reinforcement of these posts become necessary; </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and control of the West—from Ohio to Oneida—governs control </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of the various Indian tribes who live there.</p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In general, it is advantageous to pursue operations in more than one </p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">theater at a time, so as to make use of Campaign cards that allow </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the activation of two forces in one Action Phase.</p> +<p style="top:167.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A third strategic decision facing both sides, after conventional </p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">or brush warfare and where to strike, concerns the speed of cam-</p> +<p style="top:194.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">paigns and the degree of attendant risk to be accepted. A conserva-</p> +<p style="top:208.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tive approach means building fortifications as you go, principally </p> +<p style="top:222.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to guarantee a route of retreat if a battle goes awry. But sometimes </p> +<p style="top:236.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the bold approach—the quick march over wilderness trails or the </p> +<p style="top:249.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">long-distance strike by boat— must be risked to take advantage of </p> +<p style="top:263.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a fleeting enemy vulnerability . . . or simply to get the job done in </p> +<p style="top:277.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the time (that is, the number of cards) available.</p> +<p style="top:301.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>The French</b></p> +<p style="top:320.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The first puzzle for the French player is what to do with Louis-</p> +<p style="top:334.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">bourg. Losing it early can go a long way to preventing a French </p> +<p style="top:348.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">victory—but losing it with a large French force trapped inside can </p> +<p style="top:361.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">be even worse! Slow down any British amphibious campaign with </p> +<p style="top:375.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Foul Weather or (if you’re willing to risk an early Quiberon) Lou-</p> +<p style="top:389.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">isbourg Squadrons if you have them, and by putting pressure on the </p> +<p style="top:403.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">enemy in the interior. Eventually, you will have to decide whether </p> +<p style="top:416.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to defend in force—including on the shore—or pull back to the </p> +<p style="top:430.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">St.Lawrence and prepare to defend there. Even without a garrison </p> +<p style="top:444.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of regulars, the fortress can burn up British cards to capture, espe-</p> +<p style="top:458.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cially if left in the hands of a tactically adept leader.</p> +<p style="top:480.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In the interior, you start out with superiority in leadership, in auxil-</p> +<p style="top:494.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">iaries, and (barely) in regulars. You should be on the offensive for </p> +<p style="top:508.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">much of the game—with raiders, or a regular army, or both. Parry </p> +<p style="top:522.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British thrusts by moving quickly along rivers and lakeshores, </p> +<p style="top:535.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">which effectively provide the French interior lines. Key targets for </p> +<p style="top:549.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">you are British fortifications at Hudson Carry or, in 1755 scenarios, </p> +<p style="top:563.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">at Oswego and Oneida. Control of Oswego is particularly impor-</p> +<p style="top:577.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tant to protect the long French lines of communication to the West </p> +<p style="top:590.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and to block a British-Iroquois alliance.</p> +<p style="top:613.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">You will have the far greater opportunities for raiding of the two </p> +<p style="top:627.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sides, and you must take maximum advantage. In the 1755 sce-</p> +<p style="top:641.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">narios, the early years are open raiding season—before the Brit-</p> +<p style="top:654.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish mobilize border defenses of stockades, militia, and provincials. </p> +<p style="top:668.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Use this period to generate a lead in victory points (which can help </p> +<p style="top:682.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">recruit even more Indians) and force the British to invest in de-</p> +<p style="top:696.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fenses.</p> +<p style="top:718.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">But even if the British seal up the frontier, don’t give up on raiding </p> +<p style="top:732.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">entirely. Every raid will have some chance of success, and late in </p> +<p style="top:746.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the game a single added victory point can make all the difference. </p> +<p style="top:760.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The border war is often a battle of attrition, and if you have more </p> +<p style="top:773.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">auxiliaries than the enemy has militia you can win. Against a solid </p> +<p style="top:787.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">defense of stockades and militia, try a tactically capable leader in </p> +<p style="top:801.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">command of several auxiliaries: they will have a good shot at de-</p> +<p style="top:815.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">feating any militia that deploys and have a decent shot at a suc-</p> +<p style="top:828.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cessful raid. If they destroy the stockade—and the enemy does not </p> +<p style="top:842.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">immediately rebuild it—send more raiders through the gap!</p> +<p style="top:865.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">If your raids and campaigns have won you a lead, you will have </p> +<p style="top:879.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to decide whether to go for a Sudden Death or to switch to the de-</p> +<p style="top:892.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fensive and hold out to the end. Watch the British player’s buildup </p> +<p style="top:906.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">carefully—you can lose your advantages in numbers and leader-</p> +<p style="top:920.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ship quickly if he gets the right cards. Keep an eye on your own </p> +</div> +<div id="page17" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook17.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>17</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">losses as well: British capture of Québec or, depending on how the </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">naval war is going, play of a single card (Quiberon), can cut you </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">off from the ability to restore regulars. And don’t forget to build up </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">your militia, which can play a key role in the defense of Canada.</p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Knowing when to evacuate and demolish your posts is a key skill </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">for the French player. If a British offensive gets rolling along a line </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of French forts and stockades, you’ll lose your lead in points very </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">quickly. Remember that every little French Marine detachment that </p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">gets caught in the field can cost you a victory point as well.</p> +<p style="top:208.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Fort Duquesne at Ohio Forks is a special case. It is difficult to de-</p> +<p style="top:222.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fend because it is more than one move away from the St.Lawrence. </p> +<p style="top:236.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">But don’t surrender it too early—it is the key to the border war in </p> +<p style="top:249.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the west and can lead to a domino-like loss of French fortifications </p> +<p style="top:263.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to its north—including Niagara. Consider sending reinforcements </p> +<p style="top:277.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to Duquesne if the British begin a build up in Pennsylvania or Vir-</p> +<p style="top:291.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ginia. Harry British progress across the Alleghenies by auxiliary </p> +<p style="top:304.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">attacks on stockades along his march route. Consider holding an </p> +<p style="top:318.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">“Ambush!” card into a subsequent hand if you don’t have a chance </p> +<p style="top:332.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to use it immediately—one successful ambush can turn around a </p> +<p style="top:346.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">campaign, especially in this remote part of the map.</p> +<p style="top:368.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French global strategy which you are to support in America </p> +<p style="top:382.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">involves simply achieving a stalemate. In the end, you have the </p> +<p style="top:396.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">luxury of time. If you made use of your early advantage, the British </p> +<p style="top:410.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">will be on a tight schedule. You can lose battles and territory and </p> +<p style="top:423.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">still win the war. Even when British forces seem overwhelming, </p> +<p style="top:437.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">you can win through delay, harassment, raiding, and just making a </p> +<p style="top:451.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">nuisance of yourself.</p> +<p style="top:475.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>The British</b></p> +<p style="top:494.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Britain has her navy, and the sea via Louisbourg looks like the </p> +<p style="top:508.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">direct route to the vitals of New France. But it is only one pos-</p> +<p style="top:522.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sible approach to victory—and not necessarily the easiest. Always </p> +<p style="top:535.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">consider the option of dedicating a large force to an amphibious </p> +<p style="top:549.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">campaign, but don’t get fixated upon it to the degree of ignoring </p> +<p style="top:563.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">opportunities or dangers elsewhere.</p> +<p style="top:586.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">A flexible approach is to mass reinforcements at Halifax and test </p> +<p style="top:599.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the enemy’s resolve to hold at Louisbourg. Even if you don’t hap-</p> +<p style="top:613.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">pen to be holding an Amphibious Landing card, the French player </p> +<p style="top:627.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">usually cannot be sure. You may force him into either reinforcing </p> +<p style="top:641.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">or evacuating the fortress. The ideal is to trap a good portion of his </p> +<p style="top:654.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">army there in a siege. But if the defense is too strong, you can al-</p> +<p style="top:668.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ways redeploy to New York or the Southern Department and head </p> +<p style="top:682.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">inland.</p> +<p style="top:705.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Your first task in the interior probably will be dealing with French </p> +<p style="top:718.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Indian raiders. There are many ways to do so. Militia may </p> +<p style="top:732.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">seem humble, but once there are two in a Department—or if they </p> +<p style="top:746.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">back up a solid line of stockades—they can cut French successes </p> +<p style="top:760.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sharply. It helps to post a provincial or regular unit every few spac-</p> +<p style="top:773.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">es along the frontier to intercept raiders as they come through.</p> +<p style="top:796.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">If your opponent is nevertheless bent on raiding, consider offensive </p> +<p style="top:810.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">remedies as well. If you have rangers or Indians of your own—you </p> +<p style="top:824.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">can pounce on enemy raiding parties as they stop on a mountain </p> +<p style="top:837.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">space. With rangers or Indians, try some raids on enemy Indian </p> +<p style="top:851.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">settlements while the tenants are away. Otherwise, the most di-</p> +<p style="top:865.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rect and lasting remedy is to launch a campaign to occupy enemy </p> +<p style="top:879.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indian settlements or—especially—the French forts that support </p> +<p style="top:892.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">alliances and raiding activities.</p> +<p style="top:915.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">A final option is to ignore enemy raiders and focus on conquest </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of French territory. Capture a few forts or a fortress, and you’ve </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">compensated in victory points for a lot of raiding. But until you </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">have decent leaders and superior numbers of drilled troops, it will </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">be easy enough for the French to react to your offensive. So watch </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">that French automatic victory level carefully if your offensive does </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">not pay quick dividends!</p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Lake Champlain is often the main front, but don’t disregard other </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">theaters. As long as British fortifications span the Oneida Carry, </p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">you pose an immediate threat to Niagara or the upper St.Lawrence </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">that is difficult for the French player to ignore. British presence </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">here also opens the possibility of the Iroquois joining you, and they </p> +<p style="top:227.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">can be a great help to your regulars in the wilderness, and a threat </p> +<p style="top:240.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to the cultivated areas around Montréal. If the French control the </p> +<p style="top:254.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Oswego-Oneida corridor, the Iroquois could join them—and turn </p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">on the Pennsylvania or New York frontiers.</p> +<p style="top:291.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Don’t be overly deterred by what happened to Braddock on the </p> +<p style="top:304.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Monongahela. Fort Duquesne is actually quite vulnerable and </p> +<p style="top:318.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a rich prize for you. If the French don’t demolish it, its value in </p> +<p style="top:332.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">points is the same as Montréal or Québec; if they do, you’ve won a </p> +<p style="top:346.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">bloodless victory. Moreover, British occupation of Ohio Forks usu-</p> +<p style="top:359.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ally will eliminate the raiding problem in the South. Once taken, </p> +<p style="top:373.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">you can press north—but watch your garrison of the Ohio, or an </p> +<p style="top:387.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">enterprising enemy is likely to try to retake it!</p> +<p style="top:410.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">As the British player, it is easy to forget to raid. You will need what </p> +<p style="top:423.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">auxiliaries you have to protect and guide your drilled troops in the </p> +<p style="top:437.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">wilderness. But if you can spare some rangers—or Mohawks with </p> +<p style="top:451.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Johnson in command—they can make terrific raiders. (And why </p> +<p style="top:465.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">should the French player have all the fun?) In addition to victory </p> +<p style="top:478.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">points, raiding can eliminate Indian units and prevent that bother-</p> +<p style="top:492.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">some French militia from deploying for the defense of Québec or </p> +<p style="top:506.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montréal.</p> +<p style="top:529.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Most of all: keep moving! Time is against the British—especially </p> +<p style="top:542.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">in the <i>Annus Mirabilis</i> scenario. You must take risks. Sometimes, </p> +<p style="top:556.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">you will not be able to afford all the construction prudence would </p> +<p style="top:570.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">dictate. You may have to risk that battle without a retreat route in </p> +<p style="top:584.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">order to seize the next French fort on schedule. You may even—on </p> +<p style="top:597.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the odd occasion—need to suffer winter attrition.</p> +<p style="top:620.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">You don’t want to look for such situations, but neither can you shy </p> +<p style="top:634.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">from them if the only alternative is to let the clock run out on the </p> +<p style="top:648.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">war. Don’t be lulled by the historical outcome: the pressure of time </p> +<p style="top:661.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">is upon you. In light of the rules that require supply for sieges and </p> +<p style="top:675.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">allow a slippery Frenchman to avoid battles and infiltrate stockade </p> +<p style="top:689.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">lines, the tyrant of time can make the British side the more chal-</p> +<p style="top:703.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">lenging to play in Wilderness War.</p> +</div> +<div id="page18" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook18.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>18</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>CARD NOTES</b></p> +<p style="top:91.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Activation values are listed in brackets [#]. The 70-card deck con-</p> +<p style="top:105.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sists of:</p> +<p style="top:127.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">23 1-value cards</p> +<p style="top:141.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">19 2-value cards</p> +<p style="top:155.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">28 3-value cards.</p> +<p style="top:178.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>ACADIANS EXPELLED (#66) [2]:</b> British deportation of the </p> +<p style="top:191.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French speaking population of Nova Scotia in 1755 removed the </p> +<p style="top:205.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">need for a large British garrison but hardened the resolve of French </p> +<p style="top:219.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Canadians to resist the British.</p> +<p style="top:242.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>AMBUSH! (#11-12) [1]: </b>The advantages in scouting and screen-</p> +<p style="top:255.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing afforded by large numbers of frontiersmen could provide deci-</p> +<p style="top:269.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sive advantages of stealth and surprise in the wilderness.</p> +<p style="top:292.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>AMPHIBIOUS LANDING (#17-20) [1]: </b>Many preconditions—</p> +<p style="top:306.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">naval transport, escorts, supplies, landing boats—had to coalesce </p> +<p style="top:319.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to make possible a major British amphibious operation.</p> +<p style="top:342.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>BASTIONS REPAIRED (#5) [1]: </b>During a prolonged siege in </p> +<p style="top:356.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the European style, defenders would attempt to destroy the besieg-</p> +<p style="top:370.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ers’ works with bombardment or small-scale sorties, while work-</p> +<p style="top:383.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing to repair damage to their own fortifications.</p> +<p style="top:406.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>BLOCKHOUSES (#13) [1]:</b> Colonists sometimes built them-</p> +<p style="top:420.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">selves fortified sanctuaries that enemy raiders in search of captives </p> +<p style="top:434.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">would either bypass—prolonging their exposure in hostile terri-</p> +<p style="top:447.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tory—or assault at the risk of casualties.</p> +<p style="top:470.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>BRITISH COLONIAL POLITICS (#41- 42) [3]:</b> Colonial as-</p> +<p style="top:484.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">semblies’ support for the war fluctuated—reaching a low point in </p> +<p style="top:498.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">1757 under Loudoun’s imperious policies, such as forced billeting </p> +<p style="top:511.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of regulars.</p> +<p style="top:534.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>BRITISH MINISTERIAL CRISIS (#37) [3]:</b> The fortunes of </p> +<p style="top:548.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Newcastle, Pitt, and other ministers in London was beset with </p> +<p style="top:562.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">peaks and troughs between 1755 and 1758, disrupting material </p> +<p style="top:575.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">support for the war in America.</p> +<p style="top:598.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>BRITISH REGULARS (#57-59, 64) [3]:</b> Britain’s ability to send </p> +<p style="top:612.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a larger portion of its much smaller army than could France across </p> +<p style="top:626.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Atlantic was a key to eventual victory.</p> +<p style="top:648.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>CALL OUT MILITIAS (#49-52) [1]:</b> Royal or provincial com-</p> +<p style="top:662.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">manders often called on county or other local militiamen to aug-</p> +<p style="top:676.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ment defenses against raiding activity and—in the case of Cana-</p> +<p style="top:690.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">da—for major battles.</p> +<p style="top:712.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>CAMPAIGN (#1-4) [3]:</b> Both sides—but particularly the Brit-</p> +<p style="top:726.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish—sought to develop multiple, simultaneous axes of operations </p> +<p style="top:740.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">against the enemy.</p> +<p style="top:763.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>CHEROKEES (#30) [1]: </b>A southern Appalachian Indian people </p> +<p style="top:776.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">having long-friendly relations with their British neighbors, the </p> +<p style="top:790.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Cherokee briefly sent some 700 warriors to Pennsylvania to serve </p> +<p style="top:804.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">with Forbes as auxiliaries.</p> +<p style="top:827.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>CHEROKEE UPRISING (#31) [3]: </b>The falling out with Forbes </p> +<p style="top:840.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and incidents with British settlers along the warriors’ return route </p> +<p style="top:854.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">southward escalated into a British-Cherokee war that diverted as </p> +<p style="top:868.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">many as 1,300 regulars to the Carolinas.</p> +<p style="top:891.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>COEHORNS & HOWITZERS (#8) [1]: </b>These indirect-fire </p> +<p style="top:904.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">weapons were particularly useful against fortifications—if larger </p> +<p style="top:918.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">pieces and their ammunition could be hauled through the wilder-</p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ness in any substantial number.</p> +<p style="top:89.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>COLONIAL RECRUITS (#46) [2]: </b>With pay and provisioning </p> +<p style="top:103.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of colonial units irregular at best, the ability to fill gaps in the ranks </p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">was equally irregular.</p> +<p style="top:139.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>COURIER INTERCEPTED! (#35) [3]:</b> Wilderness communica-</p> +<p style="top:153.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tions depended on individuals crossing often unfamiliar, enemy-</p> +<p style="top:167.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">inhabited territory. A military situation could turn on an intercepted </p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">message—as at Fort William Henry in August 1757.</p> +<p style="top:203.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION (#69) [3]:</b> The alliance in 1756 </p> +<p style="top:217.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">between ancient enemies France and Austria—soon to include </p> +<p style="top:231.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Saxony, Russia and Sweden—imperiled British interests on the </p> +<p style="top:245.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Continent and heralded French mobilization for global war.</p> +<p style="top:267.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>FIELDWORKS (#9-10) [1]:</b> Numerous battles—including those </p> +<p style="top:281.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">at the Hudson Carry, Ticonderoga, Louisbourg, Québec and La </p> +<p style="top:295.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Belle-Famille—turned on the defender’s use of breastworks or the </p> +<p style="top:309.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">attacker’s ability to overcome or circumvent them.</p> +<p style="top:331.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>FRANÇOIS BIGOT (#36) [2]:</b> Both crowns’ interests suffered </p> +<p style="top:345.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">throughout the war from individuals who were at once key officials </p> +<p style="top:359.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and avaricious speculators—but from none as flagrant as this cor-</p> +<p style="top:373.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">rupt royal Intendant (chief of finance and civil administration) of </p> +<p style="top:386.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Canada.</p> +<p style="top:409.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>FRENCH REGULARS (#55-56, 68) [3]: </b>Despite fielding a huge </p> +<p style="top:423.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">army, France’s strategy of seeking decision in Europe, plus British </p> +<p style="top:437.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">naval superiority, meant that only a handful of French battalions </p> +<p style="top:450.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">reached America.</p> +<p style="top:473.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>FOUL WEATHER (#14) [2]:</b> Nature could derail the command-</p> +<p style="top:487.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">er’s most well-conceived plans—particularly at sea.</p> +<p style="top:510.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>GEORGE CROGHAN (#16) [1]: </b>Croghan, Christopher Gist, and </p> +<p style="top:523.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">other British frontier traders sometimes provided Indian guides for </p> +<p style="top:537.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British forces—or acted as wilderness guides themselves.</p> +<p style="top:560.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>GOVERNOR VAUDREUIL INTERFERES (#22) [3]: </b>Canada’s </p> +<p style="top:574.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Governor-General quarreled with the military commander-in-chief, </p> +<p style="top:587.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm, over strategy and the assignments of favored subordi-</p> +<p style="top:601.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">nates. (If Vaudreuil has been eliminated in the game, the event rep-</p> +<p style="top:615.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">resents actions by a successor.)</p> +<p style="top:638.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>HIGHLANDERS (#60-61, 63) [3,1,1]: </b>In part as a result of a sug-</p> +<p style="top:651.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">gestion from Wolfe and the influence of Pitt, the crown raised and </p> +<p style="top:665.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">dispatched Highland units to take part in the American wilderness </p> +<p style="top:679.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fighting, in which they proved themselves a force of particular es-</p> +<p style="top:693.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">prit.</p> +<p style="top:715.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>INDIANS DESERT (#33) [2]:</b> More self-interested allies than </p> +<p style="top:729.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">subordinates, Indian war parties could declare an end to their own </p> +<p style="top:743.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">participation in a campaign—out of pique or if sated with the tro-</p> +<p style="top:757.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">phies already won.</p> +<p style="top:779.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>INTRIGUES AGAINST SHIRLEY (#70) [2]: </b>Governor Wil-</p> +<p style="top:793.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">liam Shirley of Massachusetts ran afoul of political conflict with </p> +<p style="top:807.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">other colonial authorities and was removed from command after </p> +<p style="top:821.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the largely unsuccessful 1755 campaign.</p> +<p style="top:843.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>IROQUOIS ALLIANCE (#28) [3]:</b> Except for the staunchly pro-</p> +<p style="top:857.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British Mohawk, the Six Nations sought to maintain their neutral-</p> +<p style="top:871.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ity, until British dominance of Iroquoia became evident in 1759.</p> +<p style="top:894.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>LAKE SCHOONER (#15) [1]:</b> Both sides built and operated flo-</p> +<p style="top:907.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tillas of lake sloops and schooners, whose firepower could devas-</p> +<p style="top:921.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tate a bateau-borne enemy force or destroy supply or munitions </p> +</div> +<div id="page19" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook19.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>19</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">barges accompanying a force marching along the shore.</p> +<p style="top:89.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>LIGHT INFANTRY (#54) [2]:</b> Inspired by the forces of European </p> +<p style="top:103.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">opponents such as the Habsburg Croat Grenzer who fought in open </p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">order, the British fielded light infantry companies in regular regi-</p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ments and then whole light regiments recruited from Britain and </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the colonies.</p> +<p style="top:167.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>LOUISBOURG SQUADRONS (#21) [3]:</b> French augmentation </p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of naval forces at Louisbourg helped stave off Loudoun’s amphibi-</p> +<p style="top:194.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ous plans for 1757, but the more aggressive French naval posture </p> +<p style="top:208.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">also risked tipping the balance in other naval theaters.</p> +<p style="top:231.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>MASSACRE! (#7) [1]: </b>Indian auxiliaries’ pursuit of their antici-</p> +<p style="top:245.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">pated captives and booty among surrendered troops often embar-</p> +<p style="top:258.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rassed European officers—particularly Montcalm—and could feed </p> +<p style="top:272.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">enemy propaganda.</p> +<p style="top:295.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>MOHAWKS (#29) [1]:</b> Allied to the British through personal </p> +<p style="top:309.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">bonds to New York grandee William Johnson, Mohawk warriors </p> +<p style="top:322.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">served as the only substantial force of native auxiliaries available </p> +<p style="top:336.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to Britain during the first half of the war.</p> +<p style="top:359.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>NORTHERN INDIAN ALLIANCE (#23-25) [2]:</b> French author-</p> +<p style="top:373.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ities had long had mutually beneficial relations with tribes of the </p> +<p style="top:386.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">St.Lawrence region, many under the influence of missionaries, and </p> +<p style="top:400.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">with Great Lakes tribes through trade via French forts.</p> +<p style="top:423.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS DISPERSED FOR FRONTIER </b></p> +<p style="top:437.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>DUTY (#38) [2]:</b> Several colonies responded to devastating Indian </p> +<p style="top:450.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">raids by garrisoning strings of stockades with small detachments </p> +<p style="top:464.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of provincial troops—who proved as much targets as hindrances </p> +<p style="top:478.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to the raiders.</p> +<p style="top:501.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>QUIBERON BAY (#62) [3]:</b> When the French navy, pressed by </p> +<p style="top:514.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">lack of success elsewhere, in late 1759 attempted a concentration </p> +<p style="top:528.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in support of an invasion of Britain, British Admiral Hawke en-</p> +<p style="top:542.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">gaged and destroyed a major portion of the French fleet southeast </p> +<p style="top:556.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of Brest, thereby severing New France from Old.</p> +<p style="top:578.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>RAISE PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS (#43- 45) [2]:</b> Britain had </p> +<p style="top:592.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a 10-to-1 advantage over France in colonial population, but was </p> +<p style="top:606.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">unable to bring it to bear, until Loudoun’s removal and new poli-</p> +<p style="top:620.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cies healed crown-provincial relations in 1758 and bolstered pro-</p> +<p style="top:633.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vincial ranks.</p> +<p style="top:656.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>RANGERS (#53) [1]:</b> In an effort to counter French and Indian </p> +<p style="top:670.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">auxiliaries, the British formed elite companies of backwoodsmen </p> +<p style="top:684.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">who were to “range” along the frontier and beat the enemy at his </p> +<p style="top:697.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">own game.</p> +<p style="top:720.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>ROYAL AMERICANS (#65) [3]: </b>Raised in 1756 in four 1,000-</p> +<p style="top:734.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">man battalions of mostly Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers office-</p> +<p style="top:748.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">red by Europeans, the 60th Royal Americans were a creative way </p> +<p style="top:761.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to take advantage of colonial manpower.</p> +<p style="top:784.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>SMALL POX (#34) [3]:</b> Inoculation against this disease had yet </p> +<p style="top:798.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to be invented, and it ravaged Europeans and Indians alike—most </p> +<p style="top:812.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">famously the William Henry garrison in 1757.</p> +<p style="top:834.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>STINGY PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY (#39-40) [2]:</b> Provincial </p> +<p style="top:848.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ranks became depleted when disinterested assemblies failed to pay </p> +<p style="top:862.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">or provision them—a problem relieved by more enthusiastic pro-</p> +<p style="top:876.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vincial support for the war effort after 1757.</p> +<p style="top:898.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>SURRENDER! (#6) [3]:</b> Eighteenth Century sieges often ended </p> +<p style="top:912.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in a negotiated parole of the garrison rather than an infantry as-</p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sault, if the besieger believed honorable resistance deserved such </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">terms—or simply wished to avoid casualties—and if the defenders </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">were willing to give up their post.</p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>TREATY OF EASTON (#32) [2]: </b>With Forbes within striking </p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">distance of Fort Duquesne in October 1758, representatives of </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Pennsylvania and several Indian nations negotiated a peace be-</p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tween the British and the Western tribes.</p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>TROOP TRANSPORTS & LOCAL ENLISTMENTS (#47) </b></p> +<p style="top:194.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>[3]:</b> Small contingents of regulars arrived from Europe throughout </p> +<p style="top:208.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the war to fill depleted ranks and, as often, regular units recruited </p> +<p style="top:222.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">locals as a supplement.</p> +<p style="top:245.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>VICTORIES IN GERMANY (#48) [3]:</b> Brilliant battlefield </p> +<p style="top:258.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">command by British allies Frederick of Prussia and Ferdinand of </p> +<p style="top:272.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Brunswick meant that Britain could feed the European war largely </p> +<p style="top:286.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">with subsidies rather than British bodies—but more French, Rus-</p> +<p style="top:300.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sian or Austrian victories might have reversed this effect.</p> +<p style="top:322.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>WESTERN INDIAN ALLIANCE (#26-27) [2]:</b> The French were </p> +<p style="top:336.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">able to impress the initially reluctant western tribes with their rapid </p> +<p style="top:350.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fortification of the Ohio region, but these alliances lasted only as </p> +<p style="top:364.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">long as French military presence at Fort Duquesne.</p> +<p style="top:386.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><b>WILLIAM PITT (#67) [3]:</b> De facto prime minister in late 1756 </p> +<p style="top:400.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and, after a hiatus in 1757, for the duration of the North Ameri-</p> +<p style="top:414.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">can war, William Pitt reorganized British resources under a global </p> +<p style="top:428.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">strategy and expanded British war aims to include the full conquest </p> +<p style="top:441.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of Canada.</p> +<p style="top:487.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY</b></p> +<p style="top:512.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>The small number of Indians that we have here, realizing the need </i></p> +<p style="top:526.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>we have of them, are extremely insolent. This evening they wished </i></p> +<p style="top:539.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>to kill all the General’s hens. They forcefully take away barrels of </i></p> +<p style="top:553.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>wine, kill the cattle, and we must put up with it. What a country! </i></p> +<p style="top:567.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>What a war! </i></p> +<p style="top:590.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">—Capt. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, June 1758</p> +<p style="top:623.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The war that would bring an unprecedented level of European-style </p> +<p style="top:636.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">military operations to the wilderness of the North American Indian </p> +<p style="top:650.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">began as an escalating diplomatic conflict—first between Virginia </p> +<p style="top:664.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Canada, and then between London and Paris—over competing </p> +<p style="top:678.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">claims to the country around the Ohio River and its tributaries. Fort </p> +<p style="top:691.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">construction there by the French and a Virginian expedition to evict </p> +<p style="top:705.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">them led to military clashes in 1754, of which the Virginians took </p> +<p style="top:719.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the worst. With undeclared war underway, Britain dispatched two </p> +<p style="top:733.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">regular regiments of foot to Virginia while France sent six battal-</p> +<p style="top:746.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ions to Canada and the New World’s “Gibraltar,” the mighty stone </p> +<p style="top:760.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fortress and naval base of Louisbourg.</p> +<p style="top:783.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">War would be declared in May 1756, eventually ensnaring the ma-</p> +<p style="top:797.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">jor powers of Europe and spanning the globe. Observers at the time </p> +<p style="top:810.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">clearly saw the military events in America and Europe as tightly </p> +<p style="top:824.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">meshed, but both its beginnings and its greatest effect would be in </p> +<p style="top:838.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">North America.</p> +<p style="top:861.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The following chronology summarizes those events as they might </p> +<p style="top:874.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">occur in a game of <i>WILDERNESS WAR</i>—season by season, with </p> +<p style="top:888.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">corresponding victory point levels.</p> +</div> +<div id="page20" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook20.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>20</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1755</b></p> +<p style="top:85.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Capitalizing on their recent construction of the four-bastioned Fort </p> +<p style="top:99.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Duquesne at Ohio Forks, the French seal alliances with the Indian </p> +<p style="top:113.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tribes of the Ohio region, whose war parties begin to gather at the </p> +<p style="top:127.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fort.</p> +<p style="top:149.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Major General Edward Braddock, at Alexandria with the recently </p> +<p style="top:163.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">landed 44th and 48th Foot, marches to Will’s Creek, where he is </p> +<p style="top:177.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">joined by Virginia and Maryland provincials for an expedition via </p> +<p style="top:191.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Laurel Ridge and Gist’s Station against Fort Duquesne. Massachu-</p> +<p style="top:204.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">setts Governor William Shirley raises a largely provincial army for </p> +<p style="top:218.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a planned strike at Fort Niagara from Oswego, while New York </p> +<p style="top:232.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Colonel William Johnson is to take a mixed provincial and Mo-</p> +<p style="top:246.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">hawk force north against Fort St-Frédéric at Crown Point. </p> +<p style="top:270.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1755</b></p> +<p style="top:289.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French at Duquesne decide to attempt an ambush of Braddock’s </p> +<p style="top:302.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">army as it approaches the fort. What results is more of a meeting </p> +<p style="top:316.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">engagement than an ambush, but the smaller force of French and </p> +<p style="top:330.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indians use the cover of the surrounding wilderness to shoot down </p> +<p style="top:344.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Braddock’s tightly packed columns of redcoats for a decisive Brit-</p> +<p style="top:357.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish defeat (VPs to French 1). Braddock and the French commander, </p> +<p style="top:371.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Marine Captain Daniel de Beaujeu, are killed.</p> +<p style="top:394.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French begin work on a new fort (Carillon) at Ticonderoga </p> +<p style="top:408.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">south of Crown Point. The French commander-in-chief, Baron de </p> +<p style="top:421.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Dieskau—deferring a planned strike on Oswego in order to meet </p> +<p style="top:435.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the threat from Johnson—takes an army of regulars, Canadians, </p> +<p style="top:449.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Indians up Lake Champlain. The opposing forces meet in </p> +<p style="top:463.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">battle near the north end of the Hudson Carry, where Johnson’s </p> +<p style="top:476.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">troops also are building a fort (William Henry). In the engagement, </p> +<p style="top:490.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Dieskau is shot and captured and his army turned back. (VPs to </p> +<p style="top:504.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French 0).</p> +<p style="top:527.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">British forces under Brigadier Robert Monckton subdue French re-</p> +<p style="top:540.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">sistance in Nova Scotia and expel the French speaking population </p> +<p style="top:554.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of Acadia.</p> +<p style="top:577.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">With Duquesne secure, the French send their Delaware and other </p> +<p style="top:591.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">western Indian allies on a campaign of frontier raids against the </p> +<p style="top:604.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Southern Department (VP to French 1). Pennsylvania begins con-</p> +<p style="top:618.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">struction of a defensive screen of stockades.</p> +<p style="top:642.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1756</b></p> +<p style="top:661.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Coureurs des bois and Indians, traveling along frozen rivers on ice-</p> +<p style="top:675.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">skates, raid and destroy Fort Bull at the Oneida Carry, demonstrat-</p> +<p style="top:689.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing the strategic vulnerability of the British position at Oswego. </p> +<p style="top:703.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French-led Shawnee raid the Virginia frontier, where construction </p> +<p style="top:716.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ensues on a line of stockades along the Shenandoah valley, each 20 </p> +<p style="top:730.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">miles from the next.</p> +<p style="top:753.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Shirley—since Braddock’s death the senior British officer in Amer-</p> +<p style="top:767.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ica—is relieved of command and the British war effort languishes </p> +<p style="top:780.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">while awaiting the arrival of the new commander-in-chief, John </p> +<p style="top:794.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Campbell, Earl of Loudoun. Meanwhile, the Marquis de Montcalm </p> +<p style="top:808.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">lands at Québec with battalions of the La Sarre and Royal Roussil-</p> +<p style="top:822.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">lon regiments and takes command of French forces.</p> +<p style="top:846.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1756</b></p> +<p style="top:865.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British form four battalions of regulars from colonial recruits, </p> +<p style="top:878.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the “Royal Americans,” while an independent unit of Rangers un-</p> +<p style="top:892.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">der New Hampshire Captain Robert Rogers begins operating out of </p> +<p style="top:906.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">forts William Henry and Edward. Loudoun lands at New York city </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">with additional regiments from Britain.</p> +<p style="top:89.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A 3,000-man force under Montcalm (Béarn, Guyenne, La Sarre, </p> +<p style="top:103.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">plus auxiliaries) arrives a short distance from Oswego, a British </p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">schooner operating out of the British position on Lake Ontario hav-</p> +<p style="top:130.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing failed to spot the French force until already ashore. Montcalm </p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">quickly invests the fort, taking the garrison prisoner after a brief </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">artillery duel (VPs to French 3). He subsequently loses control of </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">his Indian auxiliaries, who take a number of British captives, and </p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">scalp sick and wounded in an hours-long massacre (VPs to French </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">2.) Montcalm razes the British fortifications and returns to the St. </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Lawrence River.</p> +<p style="top:236.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British Colonel Daniel Webb, in route up the Mohawk River to re-</p> +<p style="top:249.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">lieve Oswego, decides instead to demolish the British fortifications </p> +<p style="top:263.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">at the carry and pull back to New York.</p> +<p style="top:286.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In the aftermath of Oswego, Iroquois delegates at Montréal offer </p> +<p style="top:300.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">some support to the French, but the Iroquois Confederacy (other </p> +<p style="top:313.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">than the pro-British Mohawk and a few pro-French Seneca) re-</p> +<p style="top:327.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">mains neutral. </p> +<p style="top:350.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Alliance between France and Austria leads to the beginning of </p> +<p style="top:364.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">general war on the European continent. The forces of France and </p> +<p style="top:377.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">her allies greatly outnumber those of Britain’s ally Prussia and </p> +<p style="top:391.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Britain’s possession in Germany, Hanover. Meanwhile, William </p> +<p style="top:405.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Pitt becomes de facto British Prime Minister and sets in train the </p> +<p style="top:419.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">beginnings of a strategy maximizing British commitment to the </p> +<p style="top:432.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">conflict in North America. The strategy includes the raising of new </p> +<p style="top:446.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Highland units to be sent to the New World.</p> +<p style="top:469.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Delaware Indian raiders destroy Fort Granville, a stockade built by </p> +<p style="top:483.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Pennsylvania on the Juniata River. (The British frontier stockades </p> +<p style="top:496.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">are proving as much targets as impediments to the French and In-</p> +<p style="top:510.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">dian raids.) In reprisal, Pennsylvanians successfully raid the Dela-</p> +<p style="top:524.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ware settlement of Kittaning, forcing the Delaware to pull away </p> +<p style="top:538.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">westward (net raids bring VPs to French 4).</p> +<p style="top:562.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1757</b></p> +<p style="top:581.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Bickering between an imperious Loudoun and self-interested co-</p> +<p style="top:595.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">lonial authorities (such as over the issue of where to house Brit-</p> +<p style="top:608.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish regular troops) leads to a growing reluctance by provincial as-</p> +<p style="top:622.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">semblies to support what they are coming to see as the crown’s </p> +<p style="top:636.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">war—rather than their war—against France.</p> +<p style="top:659.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Impressed by French victories, large numbers of Indians from the </p> +<p style="top:672.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">upper Great Lakes (pays d’en haut) and the St. Lawrence mission </p> +<p style="top:686.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">settlements gather at Montréal.</p> +<p style="top:709.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A force of 1,600 Canadians, Indians and French regulars—led, at </p> +<p style="top:723.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French Governor Vaudreuil’s insistence, by his brother, François-</p> +<p style="top:736.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Pierre de Rigaud—tracks over the ice of Lake George for a surprise </p> +<p style="top:750.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">attack on William Henry. The attackers damage some buildings, </p> +<p style="top:764.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">boats and supplies, but are unable to overcome the fort’s garrison </p> +<p style="top:778.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and withdraw (VPs to French 3).</p> +<p style="top:800.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Southern Department provincials and militia struggle against con-</p> +<p style="top:814.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tinued French and Indian raids. Meanwhile, Loudoun assembles a </p> +<p style="top:828.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">sizable force of regulars for a strike on Louisbourg.</p> +<p style="top:851.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A ministerial crisis temporarily ousts Pitt and delays reinforce-</p> +<p style="top:864.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ments for America. On the European Continent, Britain’s ally King </p> +<p style="top:878.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Frederick of Prussia is proving a nimble opponent, but he suffers </p> +<p style="top:892.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a major defeat at Kolin, taking pressure off the Franco-Austrian </p> +<p style="top:906.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">alliance.</p> +</div> +<div id="page21" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook21.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>21</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1757</b></p> +<p style="top:85.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Loudoun assembles an overwhelming force of regulars at Halifax, </p> +<p style="top:99.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">but foul weather and reinforcing French naval squadrons at Louis-</p> +<p style="top:113.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">bourg delay the planned amphibious operation against Louisbourg </p> +<p style="top:127.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">until the season is too advanced to proceed.</p> +<p style="top:149.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The few new troops the British provinces are willing to mobilize </p> +<p style="top:163.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">are busy defending the frontier against French and Indian raids. </p> +<p style="top:177.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">This diversion, together with the British concentration at Halifax, </p> +<p style="top:191.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">give the French an opportunity for local superiority in drilled troops </p> +<p style="top:204.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">wherever in the interior they might choose to mass them.</p> +<p style="top:227.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm takes advantage of this superiority, and of his abun-</p> +<p style="top:241.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">dance of Indian auxiliaries, to launch an overland invasion toward </p> +<p style="top:255.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Albany. Six battalions of army regulars, plus marines, Canadians </p> +<p style="top:268.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and some 800 Indian warriors ascend Lake George from Carillon </p> +<p style="top:282.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in bateaux and canoes or march through the woods along the shore-</p> +<p style="top:296.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">line. Montcalm’s force (of almost 8,000 with heavy mortars and </p> +<p style="top:310.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cannon) faces a garrison at William Henry of fewer than 2,500 ef-</p> +<p style="top:323.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fectives, principally the 35th regiment plus provincials. (Small pox </p> +<p style="top:337.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">had recently struck the British.)</p> +<p style="top:360.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">After a six-day siege, and bombardment which destroys most of </p> +<p style="top:374.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">William Henry’s cannon, Montcalm offers the British terms. The </p> +<p style="top:387.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fort’s commander accepts after Montcalm produces a message </p> +<p style="top:401.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">from Webb at nearby Fort Edward making clear that no relief is </p> +<p style="top:415.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">coming (VPs to French 5). As the French soldiers attempt to es-</p> +<p style="top:429.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">cort surrendering British troops away from the fort, Montcalm’s </p> +<p style="top:442.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indians again rebel and another massacre ensues—principally the </p> +<p style="top:456.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">taking of captives and booty—following which the Indians return </p> +<p style="top:470.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">home (VPs to French 4). Without his Indian auxiliaries and fearing </p> +<p style="top:484.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">over extension in the approaching fall, Montcalm demolishes Wil-</p> +<p style="top:497.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">liam Henry and returns north (VPs to French 3).</p> +<p style="top:520.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French raiders destroy frontier settlements near Schenectady (to-</p> +<p style="top:534.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">gether with earlier raids, VPs to French 5).</p> +<p style="top:557.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">In Germany, brilliant victories by Frederick against the French </p> +<p style="top:570.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and Austrians offset an ignominious Hanoverian surrender to the </p> +<p style="top:584.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French at Kloster-Zeven. The stalemate works against France’s </p> +<p style="top:598.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">strategy of seeking decision on the Continent and allows Britain to </p> +<p style="top:612.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">keep Hanover and Prussia afloat with subsidies while sending fresh </p> +<p style="top:625.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">troops to America.</p> +<p style="top:649.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1758</b></p> +<p style="top:668.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">This is to be the year that Pitt’s global strategy gains full stride. He </p> +<p style="top:682.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">replaces Loudoun with the latter’s second, Major General James </p> +<p style="top:696.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Abercromby; promotes to general rank the militarily competent </p> +<p style="top:710.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Jeffery Amherst, James Wolfe, and John Forbes and dispatches </p> +<p style="top:723.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">them to America; and repairs relations with the provincial assem-</p> +<p style="top:737.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">blies. He also tightens the Royal Navy’s blockade of France, set-</p> +<p style="top:751.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ting the stage for a showdown at sea. In America, Pitt’s policies </p> +<p style="top:765.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">have infused the British war effort with a new superiority in regular </p> +<p style="top:778.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">army and provincial manpower.</p> +<p style="top:801.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Forbes in Pennsylvania is to finally put a stop to the incessant In-</p> +<p style="top:815.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">dian raids plaguing the southern colonies by seizing Duquesne. He </p> +<p style="top:829.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">assembles an army which will eventually grow to 6,000 Pennsyl-</p> +<p style="top:842.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vania, Virginia and regular troops (including the 1st Royal Ameri-</p> +<p style="top:856.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">can battalion and the 77th Highlanders). He begins to construct </p> +<p style="top:870.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a road and a series of stockaded depots westward from Carlisle </p> +<p style="top:884.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(including Fort Bedford at Raystown and Fort Ligonier just beyond </p> +<p style="top:897.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Laurel Ridge). As many as 700 Cherokees from southern Appala-</p> +<p style="top:911.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">chia join Forbes, but quickly become alienated from the British in </p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">disagreements that eventually escalate into a full-scale border war </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">southwest of Virginia. </p> +<p style="top:103.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Western Indian raids ravage the Pennsylvania and Virginia fron-</p> +<p style="top:117.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tiers.</p> +<p style="top:139.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Abercromby concentrates 15,000 men, with 890 bateaux and </p> +<p style="top:153.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">whaleboats to carry them, at the British end of Lake George for his </p> +<p style="top:167.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">principal thrust of the year: an attack on Fort Carillon. The regulars </p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">include the Highlanders of the 1/42nd Black Watch and the provin-</p> +<p style="top:194.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cials include large contingents from Massachusetts, Connecticut, </p> +<p style="top:208.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and New Jersey.</p> +<p style="top:231.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Meanwhile, Amherst assembles a new Louisbourg strike force at </p> +<p style="top:245.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Halifax, 12,000 men including the 15th, 28th, 35th, 47th, 48th, </p> +<p style="top:258.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">58th Regiments of Foot, the 78th Highlanders and the 2nd and 3rd </p> +<p style="top:272.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">battalions of Royal Americans. Braving French fieldworks, a bri-</p> +<p style="top:286.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">gade under Wolfe forces a landing two miles from the fortress and </p> +<p style="top:300.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a formal European-style siege ensues (VPs to French 4).</p> +<p style="top:324.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1758</b></p> +<p style="top:343.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French Marine commandant Augustin Drucour defends Louis-</p> +<p style="top:357.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">bourg fortress steadfastly with his Marines and the Artois, Bou-</p> +<p style="top:370.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">gogne, Cambis and Volontaires Étrangers regular battalions. Seven </p> +<p style="top:384.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">weeks of British siege craft and bombardment from land and sea </p> +<p style="top:398.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">reduce the French fortress to submission (VPs to French 1).</p> +<p style="top:421.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Back in the interior, Montcalm receives ample warning of Aber-</p> +<p style="top:434.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">cromby’s preparations on Lake George and concentrates eight reg-</p> +<p style="top:448.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ular battalions at Ticonderoga. Despite nevertheless being heavily </p> +<p style="top:462.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">outnumbered when Abercromby’s force arrives, Montcalm makes </p> +<p style="top:476.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a stand behind well-built fieldworks in front of the fort. Abercrom-</p> +<p style="top:489.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">by orders frontal assaults on Montcalm’s abatis and breastworks. </p> +<p style="top:503.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">All are repelled with heavy losses (VPs to French 2).</p> +<p style="top:526.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Out of other options, Abercromby authorizes Colonel John Brad-</p> +<p style="top:540.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">street to re-establish British presence at the Oneida carry and </p> +<p style="top:553.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">threaten the French on Lake Ontario. In a daring dash past the </p> +<p style="top:567.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French lake fleet, Bradstreet seizes and destroys Fort Frontenac </p> +<p style="top:581.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">(VPs to French 1).</p> +<p style="top:604.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A mixed British vanguard heading toward Duquesne is ambushed </p> +<p style="top:617.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">(VPs to French 2), but a subsequent French and Indian attack on </p> +<p style="top:631.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Fort Ligonier is defeated.</p> +<p style="top:654.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The Ohio Indians decide that Forbes’ advance is unstoppable and, </p> +<p style="top:668.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">at a congress with Pennsylvanians and the Iroquois at Easton agree </p> +<p style="top:681.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to a treaty removing them from the war. Forbes advances toward </p> +<p style="top:695.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Duquesne, which the outnumbered French demolish before retreat-</p> +<p style="top:709.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing northward (VPs to French 1). The British occupy the Forks and </p> +<p style="top:723.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">begin construction of a new, five-bastioned fort (Fort Pitt), secur-</p> +<p style="top:736.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing their frontier from Ohio Indian raids and opening the way west-</p> +<p style="top:750.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ward (VPs to French 0, then to French 1 for Early Season raids).</p> +<p style="top:774.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1759</b></p> +<p style="top:793.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In a series of conferences, William Johnson and his agents per-</p> +<p style="top:807.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">suade the Iroquois Confederacy to join the British side in the war.</p> +<p style="top:830.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Launching a campaign against Québec, Wolfe lands on the unde-</p> +<p style="top:844.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fended Île d’Orléans in the St. Lawrence estuary with some 9,000 </p> +<p style="top:857.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">troops: eight battalions of regulars plus the oversize 78th Highland </p> +<p style="top:871.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Regiment, light infantry and American rangers.</p> +<p style="top:894.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">New France’s defenders had been reinforced just before Wolfe’s </p> +<p style="top:908.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">expedition by several transports carrying replacements that slipped </p> +<p style="top:921.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">past the Royal Navy, and by Canadians enlisted into the ranks of </p> +</div> +<div id="page22" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook22.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>22</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the depleted regular regiments. To hold Québec, Montcalm is able </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to muster five regular regiments of troupes de terre, various Marine </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">units, more than 1,000 Canadian and pays d ’en haut Indians still </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">with the French, several thousand militia from regions of Québec, </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Trois-Rivières and Montréal—and even 150 Acadian volunteers.</p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm also has fortified the approaches to the city with artillery </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">redoubts and other formidable fieldworks. Wolfe makes an attempt </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">at the French defenses at their northeastern extremity, Montmo-</p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">rency, but is bloodily repulsed (VPs to French 2). Wolfe also sends </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">his rangers to raid the Baie-St-Paul and Rivière-Ouelle areas in a </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">largely unsuccessful effort to induce Canadian militias to desert </p> +<p style="top:227.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm’s army.</p> +<p style="top:251.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1759</b></p> +<p style="top:270.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Having succeeded Abercromby and transferred his headquarters to </p> +<p style="top:284.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Champlain front, Amherst is in position to take advantage of </p> +<p style="top:297.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montcalm’s concentration against Wolfe. British strength on Lake </p> +<p style="top:311.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">George forces the French to abandon Forts Carillon and St. Fred-</p> +<p style="top:325.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eric (VPs to 0). Amherst moves deliberately, beginning construc-</p> +<p style="top:339.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tion on a large, five-bastioned fort at Crown Point.</p> +<p style="top:361.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">William Johnson leads a British force that includes some 1,000 </p> +<p style="top:375.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Iroquois warriors in an investment of a weakly-defended Fort Ni-</p> +<p style="top:389.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">agara. Using concealed fieldworks in a skillful ambush at La Belle-</p> +<p style="top:403.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Famille, he defeats a mixed French relief force moving up from the </p> +<p style="top:416.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Ohio forts (VPs to British 1). Niagara falls, and with it France’s </p> +<p style="top:430.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">“Gateway of Nations”, its link to pays d’en haut allies and trade </p> +<p style="top:444.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(VPs to British 4). The French abandon Forts Machault, Le Beouf, </p> +<p style="top:458.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Presqu’île and Rouillé.</p> +<p style="top:480.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">In Germany, a Hanoverian-British victory under Prince Ferdinand </p> +<p style="top:494.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">at Minden causes thousands of French losses and stabilizes the </p> +<p style="top:508.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">situation for London’s allies. The battlefield success helps siphon </p> +<p style="top:522.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French resources from a planned invasion of England and obviates </p> +<p style="top:535.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the need for large contingents of British regulars either to reinforce </p> +<p style="top:549.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the Continent or defend the homeland.</p> +<p style="top:572.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">At Québec, Montcalm stymies Wolfe for another six weeks after </p> +<p style="top:586.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Montmorency. However, Wolfe’s army finally circumvents Mont-</p> +<p style="top:599.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">calm’s fieldworks around his right, through a combination of ruse, </p> +<p style="top:613.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">audacity and luck, and assembles for battle on the Plains of Abra-</p> +<p style="top:627.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ham outside the fortress city. Montcalm decides to engage in a field </p> +<p style="top:641.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">battle with his force (roughly equal to the British in numbers, but </p> +<p style="top:654.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">not in training). Controlled British musket volleys undo the ragged </p> +<p style="top:668.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">French advance, resulting in a major British field victory (VPs to </p> +<p style="top:682.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">British 5). Wolfe and Montcalm both fall in the engagement, and </p> +<p style="top:696.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Vaudreuil withdraws up the St. Lawrence. A besieged Québec ca-</p> +<p style="top:709.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">pitulates in six days (VPs to British 8).</p> +<p style="top:732.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Setting out from Amhert’s fort at Crown Point (still under construc-</p> +<p style="top:746.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tion), Robert Rogers’ New Hampshire rangers infiltrate French de-</p> +<p style="top:760.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">fenses to raid and destroy the Abenaki settlement at St-François </p> +<p style="top:773.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">(VPs to British 9). A much-reduced ranger force returns down the </p> +<p style="top:787.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Connecticut River to Fort No.4.</p> +<p style="top:810.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Off the French coast southeast of Brest, British Admiral Edward </p> +<p style="top:824.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Hawke pursues his French counterpart, the Comte de Conflans, and </p> +<p style="top:837.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">a major French fleet into the restricted waters of Quiberon Bay. </p> +<p style="top:851.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Under gale conditions, Hawke destroys or runs aground most of </p> +<p style="top:865.3pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Conflans’ ships—one of the most decisive naval victories of the </p> +<p style="top:879.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">century and a fitting close to Britain’s “Year of Miracles.” This </p> +<p style="top:892.8pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">strategic victory ends the threat of invasion of England, and Cana-</p> +<p style="top:906.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">da is cut off from any resupply or reinforcement from France.</p> +<p style="top:66.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Early Season 1760</b></p> +<p style="top:85.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The escalating war with the Cherokee forces the British to dispatch </p> +<p style="top:99.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">regulars from the 1st and 77th regiments to the Carolinas. Virgin-</p> +<p style="top:113.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ia provincials are already fighting the Cherokee in the southern </p> +<p style="top:127.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">mountains. </p> +<p style="top:149.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Intent on retaking Québec, French commander François-Gaston de </p> +<p style="top:163.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Lévis regroups a French army of 7,000 at Montréal, sails down </p> +<p style="top:177.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">river, and meets a disease-ravaged British army under James Mur-</p> +<p style="top:191.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ray on the Plains of Abraham—inflicting a defeat and besieging the </p> +<p style="top:204.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">city (VPs to British 8). Lévis’ siege makes little progress for want </p> +<p style="top:218.5pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">of guns and especially ammunition, for it is the British Royal Navy </p> +<p style="top:232.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and not the French Marine that controls access to the St. Lawrence. </p> +<p style="top:246.0pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">After three weeks, Lévis lifts the siege and returns up river to de-</p> +<p style="top:259.8pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fend Montréal.</p> +<p style="top:283.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>Late Season 1760</b></p> +<p style="top:302.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The British begin a campaign of coordinated convergence on Mon-</p> +<p style="top:316.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tréal. While one British force pushes north from Crown Point and </p> +<p style="top:330.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Murray leads his up the St. Lawrence from Québec, Amherst trans-</p> +<p style="top:344.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">fers his command to the upper St. Lawrence and captures a French </p> +<p style="top:357.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">stockade (Fort Lévis) at Oswegatchie (VPs to British 9).</p> +<p style="top:380.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The French abandon Île-aux-Noix on the Champlain front, hoping </p> +<p style="top:394.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">for an opportunity to use their central position at Montréal to de-</p> +<p style="top:408.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">feat the three approaching British forces in detail. The opportunity </p> +<p style="top:421.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">never arises, as the British pincers approach Montréal simultane-</p> +<p style="top:435.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ously. With French forces and Montréal’s defenses unfit to sustain </p> +<p style="top:449.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">a hopeless siege, Vaudreuil and Lévis surrender the city (VPs to </p> +<p style="top:463.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">British 12). The British army ends the year in occupation of the </p> +<p style="top:476.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">entire St. Lawrence Valley, Ohio Forks and Lake Ontario—the war </p> +<p style="top:490.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">for French Canada is finished.</p> +<p style="top:516.3pt;left:396.3pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b> </b></p> +<p style="top:544.3pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:21.6pt"><b>DESIGN NOTES</b></p> +<p style="top:569.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> is an adaptation of Mark Herman’s card-driven </p> +<p style="top:582.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">wargame system, first introduced in the game <i>We the People.</i> Mark </p> +<p style="top:596.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Simonitch’s <i>Hannibal: Rome vs.Carthage</i> refined the strategy card </p> +<p style="top:610.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">mechanics and showed that the system could be felicitously adapt-</p> +<p style="top:624.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ed to widely different historical eras. Finally, Ted Raicer’s <i>Paths of </i></p> +<p style="top:637.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>Glory</i> took the system in new directions in options of strategy card </p> +<p style="top:651.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">use, combat systems and named units and reinforcements.</p> +<p style="top:674.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> also owes a great debt to Rob Markham’s pio-</p> +<p style="top:688.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">neering game on the French and Indian War, <i>Montcalm and Wolfe. </i></p> +<p style="top:701.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Among several innovations, this handy little game meshed raiding </p> +<p style="top:715.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">by France’s native-American allies with other activities and objec-</p> +<p style="top:729.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tives in the game in a way that was both consequential and fun—an </p> +<p style="top:743.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">effect I had tried but failed to achieve in a paper campaign of the </p> +<p style="top:756.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">war that I had run for my gaming group in the early 1990s.</p> +<p style="top:779.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">In <i>WILDERNESS WAR</i>’S mechanics for raiding, I have built on </p> +<p style="top:793.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the success of Rob Markham’s design. With the variety of raiders, </p> +<p style="top:807.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">raid targets and effects of success—not to mention the defensive </p> +<p style="top:820.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">options of militias, stockades and posting Drilled Troops in tar-</p> +<p style="top:834.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">get areas—the frontier border battles come alive in <i>WILDERNESS </i></p> +<p style="top:848.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WAR</i> as a game within a game. Infiltration and interception rules </p> +<p style="top:862.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">add further twists.</p> +<p style="top:884.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">One historical aspect missing in <i>Montcalm and Wolfe</i> is the con-</p> +<p style="top:898.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">struction and demolition of forts in the wilderness—one of the </p> +<p style="top:912.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">principal strategic activities of the war and objectives of its cam-</p> +</div> +<div id="page23" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook23.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:693.8pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>23</b></p> +<p style="top:35.3pt;left:292.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">paigns. A second such activity was the construction of roads—such </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">as those of Braddock and Forbes—typically studded with supply </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">depots along the way. The design puzzle for me was how to allow </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">players the option to carry out all this essentially logistical activity </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">without complication and tedium.</p> +<p style="top:144.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">The answer was to combine both functions—fortification and road </p> +<p style="top:158.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">building—into a card-use option that would supplant placement of </p> +<p style="top:172.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">political control markers (which do not apply to a wilderness con-</p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">text). Fortifications in the game offer not only defense and bases </p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">for raiding, but also speedy movement over mountain and forest. </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Players are free to take their armies anywhere they would like in </p> +<p style="top:227.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the wilderness—but they must either spend the time to hack out a </p> +<p style="top:240.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">supply route (and potential refuges for retreat) or risk losing that </p> +<p style="top:254.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">army to a disaster. A side can repair a captured fort and use it it-</p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">self—but risk its recapture by the enemy—or can choose to demol-</p> +<p style="top:282.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ish it and return home (as Montcalm did at Oswego and William </p> +<p style="top:295.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Henry).</p> +<p style="top:318.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">In the game, stockades generally represent small, palisaded places </p> +<p style="top:332.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">which are as important in their role as supply depots as for their </p> +<p style="top:346.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">defensive benefit. Forts represent earth and wood (or stone) con-</p> +<p style="top:359.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">struction with bastions, ditches and artillery embrasures. Both for-</p> +<p style="top:373.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tification marker types in the game also represent such activities as </p> +<p style="top:387.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">road building and the movement and accumulation of supplies—in </p> +<p style="top:401.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">short the logistical activity needed to support a European army in </p> +<p style="top:414.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the American wilderness. Fortresses represent particularly large </p> +<p style="top:428.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and permanent fortifications, as well as cities large enough to pro-</p> +<p style="top:442.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">vide their own local defense.</p> +<p style="top:465.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Because so much in the war revolved around these forts, many </p> +<p style="top:478.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">of the larger engagements were sieges rather than field battles. So </p> +<p style="top:492.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> pays particular attention to siege-craft. Roll-</p> +<p style="top:506.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ing on the Siege Table represents construction of approach trench-</p> +<p style="top:520.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">es and battery positions close enough for effective bombardment </p> +<p style="top:533.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and assault.</p> +<p style="top:556.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">To explore the differences and interactions of the European-style </p> +<p style="top:570.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">troops that carried out such construction and sieges—and the fron-</p> +<p style="top:584.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tier auxiliaries who pursued the petit guerre of raids and wilderness </p> +<p style="top:597.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ambushes—<i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> departs from the simpler, generic </p> +<p style="top:611.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">strength points for troops and introduces seven different troop </p> +<p style="top:625.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">types, all differing in their capabilities. This part of the design saw </p> +<p style="top:639.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">much evolution during Rob Winslow’s able development of the </p> +<p style="top:652.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">game—mostly in the direction of streamlining and lessening the </p> +<p style="top:666.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">differences. I hope that players will agreed that we achieved the </p> +<p style="top:680.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">right balance between accessibility and period character.</p> +<p style="top:703.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">One note on French unit types is necessary. French Canada had a </p> +<p style="top:716.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">numerous and relatively well-trained “militia” (milice), rather dif-</p> +<p style="top:730.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ferent than that of the decentralized British colonies. In the game, </p> +<p style="top:744.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">much of this militia is represented by the Coureur units and part of </p> +<p style="top:758.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the strength of the French regular units. The game’s Canadian Mili-</p> +<p style="top:771.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tia units represent emergency local augmentations of the milice.</p> +<p style="top:794.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">There is too much to say about the composition of the various </p> +<p style="top:808.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">events, so I will not attempt that here—with two exceptions: Qui-</p> +<p style="top:822.5pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">beron and Small Pox.</p> +<p style="top:844.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Linking the far away event of Quiberon Bay to the amphibious </p> +<p style="top:858.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">struggle for Louisbourg may at first seem odd. The premise of </p> +<p style="top:872.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">the linkage is that the success or failure of French naval actions </p> +<p style="top:886.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">off North America are a barometer of their success globally—and </p> +<p style="top:899.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">therefore of the pressure on them to take the risks off European </p> +<p style="top:913.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">waters that led to the defeat in November 1759.</p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Small Pox originally had generated normal winter attrition, but in </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">game development evolved into its own form. Players may initially </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">question how it treats Indian units—in particular, that the afflicted </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">side is allowed to choose step losses from Indians which are to be </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">eliminated anyway, thereby in effect shielding non-Indian troops. </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">However, it should be noted that the Indian units add to the stack </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">size that draws a Small Pox event in the first place, and that their </p> +<p style="top:163.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">very vulnerability does so as well. For the side playing the event, </p> +<p style="top:176.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">choosing whether to inflict the disease on a stack with lots of In-</p> +<p style="top:190.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">dians is more interesting for having to consider that all Indians are </p> +<p style="top:204.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">automatically eliminated, but that any European troops are likely </p> +<p style="top:218.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to remain unaffected. The historical premises are that Indians were </p> +<p style="top:231.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">particularly susceptible and that warriors wouldn’t hang around if </p> +<p style="top:245.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">their comrades are dropping to the Pox.</p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The <i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> map is largely based on period maps (see </p> +<p style="top:282.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Evans in Selected Sources), though judgment calls were of course </p> +<p style="top:295.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">needed with regard to which spaces are cultivated and which not, </p> +<p style="top:309.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">which rivers are substantial enough to depict, and so forth. A major </p> +<p style="top:323.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">decision was which theaters to include and which to leave out.</p> +<p style="top:346.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Far from being the channelized conflict that some have viewed it, </p> +<p style="top:359.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the war saw major action over the course of six years along numer-</p> +<p style="top:373.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ous fronts from Ohio in the west to Louisbourg on the seaboard—</p> +<p style="top:387.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and that does not even consider the interminable raiding and coun-</p> +<p style="top:401.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ter-raiding that spanned the frontier. There was much to cover on </p> +<p style="top:414.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the map; some things I decided to relegate to offmap events. These </p> +<p style="top:428.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">included the Acadian campaign of 1755 in Nova Scotia and the </p> +<p style="top:442.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">Cherokee border war of 1759 and 1760 in southwestern Virginia </p> +<p style="top:456.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">and the Carolinas.</p> +<p style="top:478.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">The area around Québec saw a major change during develop-</p> +<p style="top:492.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">ment—the addition of a space for Île d’Orléans. The added space </p> +<p style="top:506.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">made a closer facsimile of Wolfe’s famous 1759 campaign more </p> +<p style="top:520.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">likely in the game. Note that the French player would be able to </p> +<p style="top:533.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">receive European reinforcements at Québec even if British Units </p> +<p style="top:547.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">were in Île d’Orleans but not Québec—the British historically were </p> +<p style="top:561.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">not able to establish firm naval control of the approaches to Canada </p> +<p style="top:575.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">until Québec was in their hands.</p> +<p style="top:597.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">A great deal of discussion, testing and thought went into the victory </p> +<p style="top:611.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">conditions. More than most other aspects of <i>WILDERNESS WAR</i>, </p> +<p style="top:625.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">these were not only streamlined considerably during development </p> +<p style="top:639.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">but altered repeatedly in direction. With too much focus on Mon-</p> +<p style="top:652.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">tréal and Québec, players would tend to ignore historic scenes of </p> +<p style="top:666.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">action in the west. With too little, and the British player could ahis-</p> +<p style="top:680.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">torically ignore populated Canada—and the French player could </p> +<p style="top:694.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">similarly ignore its defense. With too little victory-point incentive </p> +<p style="top:707.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">to raid, the border war never happens; with too much, the British </p> +<p style="top:721.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">are unable to make up with territorial gains for the damage the </p> +<p style="top:735.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French raiders are likely to do in the first years of the war. Finally, </p> +<p style="top:749.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">the victory levels—including sudden death— required almost end-</p> +<p style="top:762.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">less tinkering to achieve what we hope is a historical and balanced </p> +<p style="top:776.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">contest. We cannot expect the typical game to recreate Britain’s </p> +<p style="top:790.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">phenomenal “Year of Miracles” in 1759, but it is possible.</p> +<p style="top:813.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">What should the British player be expected to accomplish to win? </p> +<p style="top:826.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French global strategy during the Seven Years War—of which the </p> +<p style="top:840.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">French and Indian War was but a part—sought to defeat Britain’s </p> +<p style="top:854.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">allies on the European continent while holding British gains in the </p> +<p style="top:868.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">colonies to a minimum. If New France could hold out—and inflict </p> +<p style="top:881.9pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">enough pain on British colonists—France could hope to regain any </p> +<p style="top:895.6pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">lost territory at the peace table, as she had in the previous war. </p> +<p style="top:909.4pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i>’S victory conditions reflect both the holding </p> +<p style="top:923.1pt;left:393.8pt;font-size:11.4pt">action assigned to New France and the progressive fraying of rela-</p> +</div> +<div id="page24" style="width:765pt;height:990pt;background-image:url('playbook24.png')"> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:57.5pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>24</b></p> +<p style="top:36.3pt;left:296.3pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b><i>Wilderness War </i></b><i>— </i><i>PLAYBOOK</i></p> +<p style="top:940.8pt;left:331.3pt;font-size:9.6pt"><i>© 2010 GMT Games, LLC</i></p> +<p style="top:84.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:14.4pt"><b>SELECTED SOURCES</b></p> +<p style="top:112.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Anderson, Fred. <i>Crucible of War—The Seven Years’ War and </i></p> +<p style="top:126.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt"><i>the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 </i>(2000).<i> </i></p> +<p style="top:139.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Touted as an analysis of the war as a precursor to the Revolution, </p> +<p style="top:153.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">it also offers an engrossing narrative of the campaigns. Critiques </p> +<p style="top:167.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">of the commanders are rather harsh on Montcalm, Wolfe and </p> +<p style="top:181.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Rogers.</p> +<p style="top:203.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Bird, Harrison. <i>Battle for a Continent</i> (1965). Handy chronolo-</p> +<p style="top:217.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">gies of raids, battles and unit arrivals.</p> +<p style="top:240.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Chartrand, Rene. <i>Québec 1759.</i> The most helpful of the many </p> +<p style="top:254.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Osprey books relevant to the war, particularly in its individual </p> +<p style="top:267.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">histories of each of the units that participated in the Québec cam-</p> +<p style="top:281.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">paign. Another Chartrand Osprey title, <i>Ticonderoga 1758</i> (2000) </p> +<p style="top:295.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">provides the clearest view available of the maneuvers involved in </p> +<p style="top:309.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Abercromby’s debacle.</p> +<p style="top:331.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Eckert, Allan. <i>Wilderness Empire</i> (1969). A Shelby Foote for the </p> +<p style="top:345.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">American colonial and Indian wars.<i> </i>Narrative peppered with long </p> +<p style="top:359.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">extracts of letters and such, but also with enough ostensibly inside </p> +<p style="top:373.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">thoughts of the participants to raise skepticism. Use with caution. </p> +<p style="top:386.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">An alternative in this vein is Dale Van Every, <i>Forth to the Wilder-</i></p> +<p style="top:400.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt"><i>ness: The First American Frontier 1754-1774</i> (1961).</p> +<p style="top:423.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Evans, Lewis. <i>A General Map of the Middle British Colonies, in </i></p> +<p style="top:437.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt"><i>America</i> (1754). The all-around most useful of the period maps </p> +<p style="top:450.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">relevant to the war, spanning Kentucky to Montréal and replete </p> +<p style="top:464.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">with Indian place names.</p> +<p style="top:487.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Gipson, Lawrence. <i>The British Empire Before the American Rev-</i></p> +<p style="top:501.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt"><i>olution, Volumes VI & VII</i> (1959). Rich discussion of the war in </p> +<p style="top:514.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">the context of British global strategy.</p> +<p style="top:537.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Parkman, Francis. <i>Montcalm and Wolfe</i> (1884). The classic Eng-</p> +<p style="top:551.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">lishlanguage treatment of the war. Luscious prose; consciously </p> +<p style="top:565.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">pro-British in his disappointment with what became of a great </p> +<p style="top:578.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">French empire.</p> +<p style="top:601.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Stacey, C.P. <i>Québec, 1759—The Siege and the Battle</i> (1959, An-</p> +<p style="top:615.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">niversary edition).</p> +<p style="top:638.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Steele, Ian. <i>Betrayals—Fort William Henry & the “Massacre” </i></p> +<p style="top:651.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">(1990). Could have been called “Last of the Mohicans: The True </p> +<p style="top:665.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Story.” In addition to the events at William Henry in August </p> +<p style="top:679.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">1757, good lead-up narrative on the action along the Champlain </p> +<p style="top:693.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">corridor. Interesting discussion of competing Indian and French </p> +<p style="top:706.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">agendas.</p> +<p style="top:729.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Washington, George. <i>Papers.</i> Primary source on aspects of the </p> +<p style="top:743.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">campaigns in Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Ohio country in </p> +<p style="top:757.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">which Washington participated—including his frustrated efforts </p> +<p style="top:770.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">to thwart French and Indian raids on the Virginia frontier in 1756 </p> +<p style="top:784.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">and 1757 while commanding the 1st Virginia Regiment. If you </p> +<p style="top:798.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">haven’t got the chance to stop by the Library of Congress, check </p> +<p style="top:812.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">them out on line.</p> +<p style="top:834.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">For those who share my particular interest in Virginia’s role in the </p> +<p style="top:848.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">war, see James Titus, <i>The Old Dominion at War</i> (1991), Hayes </p> +<p style="top:862.4pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Baker-Crothers, <i>Virginia and the French and Indian War</i> (1928), </p> +<p style="top:876.1pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">Louis Koontz, <i>The Virginia Frontier, 1754-1763</i> (1925), and, for </p> +<p style="top:889.9pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">oral histories, Samuel Kercheval, <i>History of the Valley of Virginia</i> </p> +<p style="top:903.6pt;left:405.0pt;font-size:10.8pt">(1925).</p> +<p style="top:66.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tions between Britain and her colonies, should the British crown </p> +<p style="top:80.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">prove unable to protect colonial frontiers. Victory points represent </p> +<p style="top:94.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">in part perceptions—among the colonial population, back home </p> +<p style="top:108.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">and by the Indians—of who is winning the war. If the British can </p> +<p style="top:121.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">hold things together (avoid a French automatic victory) and gain </p> +<p style="top:135.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">enough territory to make the suffering seem worthwhile—at least </p> +<p style="top:149.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">to the classes that mattered—the war can be called a British vic-</p> +<p style="top:163.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tory.</p> +<p style="top:185.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt"><i>WILDERNESS WAR</i> owes a great deal to the veteran designers al-</p> +<p style="top:199.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">ready mentioned above. I have been amazed at how effectively their </p> +<p style="top:213.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">original concepts combined to produce the game on the French and </p> +<p style="top:227.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Indian War that I have always wanted to play. The game also re-</p> +<p style="top:240.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">flects the efforts of Rob Winslow and his multiple teams of testers, </p> +<p style="top:254.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">who guided the design to something that gamers—who may or </p> +<p style="top:268.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">may not be devotees of the colonial era—will enjoy. GMT Games’ </p> +<p style="top:282.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">continuing philosophy of bringing the less-often treated historical </p> +<p style="top:295.9pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">eras to the gaming public has played its decisive role here. Finally, </p> +<p style="top:309.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">I dedicate this design to Jill, Daniel and Andrew—who have pa-</p> +<p style="top:323.4pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">tiently put up with all those years of fife and drum music.</p> +<p style="top:346.1pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">—Volko F. Ruhnke</p> +<p style="top:362.6pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">Vienna, Virginia</p> +<p style="top:379.0pt;left:56.3pt;font-size:11.4pt">January, 2001</p> +<p style="top:894.4pt;left:167.5pt;font-size:10.8pt"><b>GMT Games, LLC</b></p> +<p style="top:907.9pt;left:131.3pt;font-size:9.6pt">P.O. Box 1308, Hanford, CA 93232-1308</p> +<p style="top:920.4pt;left:167.5pt;font-size:9.6pt">www.GMTGames.com</p> +</div> +</body> +</html> |