Campaign Progress

Le Vert French Regular officer  Total 6 VP
1st game  blew the bridge.  1VP
2nd Game French Victory 3VP captured British officer 1 VP and 1 VP for destroying British regular unit

Running Bear  Total 4 VP
1st did take  the scalp of   Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw, however lost alot of braves
2nd game took more scalps than casualties so 1 VP
2nd game French Victory 3 VP


Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy French Canadian Total 3 VP
1st game failed to take any prisoners and barely escaped being scalped
2nd Game French Victory 3 VP

Lieutenant, the Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw total 2 VPs
2nd Game was captured but did see that his men got the cognac home  - 2 VPs


Henri Leclerc, a French regular officer - 1VP
1st Game Achieved sideline objective by killing more enemy than received casualties 1 VP

German Jaegar officer Johann von Ewald   Total 1 VP
1st game  rescued his cousin.  1 VP

Deceased characters
Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw British Officer was scalped and the bridge was blown....

Game 2 Post Game report Raid on the Schoharie Trading Post.

 British Deployed in the Trading Post, French and Indian Allies entering from far table edge

 The British Regulars advance down the track, true to form without any light infantry accompanying them.

 The British regulars have been shot at and recoil into the wood.

 Event Card 1 and we roll 11, so there is a solar eclipse!
Night time rules in force until the event card is draw again next turn.

 The Rangers hastily retrieve the Cognac from the trading post building.

 Le Vert and Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy advance their forces and close in on the British regulars.

The British Rangers start to make for the canoes.

Running Bear's war party burns one of the buildings and takes on the Schoharie Militia, Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring Featherstonehaw allows the women in the canoes first and the cognac for his twin brothers wake.

The Militia take more fire from the French Canadians. 

The British Rangers now exposed and start to fire upon the French. Still 

Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring Featherstonehaw stands by and allows the women into the boats, what a gentleman....or rather unlucky the Civilian card came up before the British Regulars card!

Brave Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring Featherstonehaw has been attacked, he fell into the creek, and now has been set upon by Running Bear. Fortunately he avoids scalping as the French officers exert some discipline, recognising the opportunity to learn more about the British forces in New York Colony.

Rangers and Canadians exchange fire

The rangers return down creek to retrieve the Cognac, Running Bears braves have got carried away and gave shot the women. Red Squirel Fist is going to be most displeased his wedding will be off again! 

Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw will get his wake as the Rangers make off with the cognac, unfortunately his twin will be unable to make it.

The French have burnt down the trading post and killed the civilians so winning the scenarios. 

Running Bear took more scalps than lost braves.

Running Bear captured a Brtish Officers so Le Vert succeeds too (n.b. in future scenarios officers must fulfil their side plots)   

Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy has to be quick witted and use all his diplomatic skills to keep the alliance with Red Squirrel Fist and Running Bear alive.

Game 2 Raid on the Schoharie Trading Post.

General Briefing

The initial skirmish saw the French blow up the Blenheim bridge over the Schoharie Creek. However they failed to destroy the settlement, much to the displeasure of their Indian Allies who were promised that the foreigners would be driven from their hunting grounds. Red Squirrel Fist the son of one of the Chiefs of the Wyandots tribe is also disappointed as he was promised a bride.

Introducing  Lieutenant, the Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw. The second of two twins, he bears a startling resemblance to his late brother .

The game objective is a French Raid on  British  trading post. To win the French must destroy the buildings, the British need to prevent them. 3 Campaign points to each officer on the winning side. If half the buildings are destroyed its a draw, 1 point each.

Player Briefings

Le Vert French Regular officer
You are gaining experience of working with your Indian allies and Canadian irregulars. For this game you must decide your type Indian or irregular. You win 1 campaign point for each British Regular unit which is destroyed in the game, you also get 1 campaign point for each captured British officer. To capture an officer they must be defeated in combat and not scalped! Indians will scalp a defeated enemy unless you are in base contact with the enemy officer.

Running Bear
As yet your tribe is unaligned; some braves are with the French others with the British. In the last skirmish you collected the scalp of Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw, having decieded to side with the French after your war party received fire from the British. Today you have been promised much fire water by the pale skin French, as usual though they have been rather vague on how you'll get it. Your Fathers cousin "Red Squirrel Fist" is planning a big gathering and you will get much prestige from bringing fire water to it.

The firewater is at the trading post the French soldiers will help you capture it.

Your war party must collects more scalps than causalities, 1 campaign for point for achieving this, 2 campaign points if you manage to get 4 barrels of fire water. To collect a scalp you must spend one action after a melee taking the scalps from the dead/dying.


Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring Featherstonehaw British Officer
You have recently heard that your brother has been killed by savages. You have procured some rather fine Cognac for the wake at the regimental officers mess, its at a trading post, you have to collect it. Your side plot is simple you need to get the Cognac to the mess winning 2 campaign points, You will get an additional campaign point for each female guest you  persuade to join you at the wake. You will get an extra campaign point if true to character you avoid being in a melee. 

You have a coach and a wagon ( move on regulars or irregulars card your choice, but must be that card for entire game) Wagon and coach move at up to 5" per action. takes 2 man actions to load each barrel. 


Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy French Canadian

Running bear assisted you in the raid on Brunnendorf and to pay him you have promised him the cognac at Schoharie trading Post.
You objective is to capture 2 female prisoners, you promised Red Squirrel Fist in the local Wyandots tribe  a bride. He is a bit fussy so you better take 2, you need to capture 2 ladies and escape the area with them. You better succeed this time or "Red Squirrel Fist" will be after your scalp. You get 1 campaign point for each female prisoner.  You get 1 campaign point if  Running Bear gets the cognac in his possession.

The forces are

3 units French Canadian Militia

4 units Indians

vs

1 large unit British Regulars

3 units militia

2 units rangers

6 civilians

1 coach

1 wagon

The British may have been weak

The table was 6x4, trees are symbolic, in our wilderness games The Whole table is wooded except where there is other terrain.

The Trading Post. The cognac is in one building and the Civilians split between them.

All the British have to be placed with 4 " of the buildings. The French are positioned 8" in from any single table edge.

On our game the French came in on the right. Honourable Montmorency Cholmondeley-Mainwaring Featherstonehaw must exit the "bottom" table edge in this photo.

Jaegar officer Johann von Ewald.

Fighting for the British leading a group of Jaegar.

The armies of Louis XIV invaded the Palatinate region of Germany, forcing residents to flee first to Holland, then by boat from Rotterdam to London. As they were victims of Britain’s enemy, these German-speaking Protestants were at first welcomed in London, and in 1709 the government issued sixteen hundred tents for Palatine encampments in Blackheath and elsewhere. Rather than live in tents in England von Ewalds family emigrated.

Johann painted  by Tom Frankland who is playing him in the campaign

First game The bridge at Brunnendorf.

First game The bridge at Brunnendorf.

Context for the game.
The French have raided deep into the colony of New York. The local German settlers have sent word to the local British forces who are on the way to reinforce the settlement. The Blenheim bridge over the Schoharie Creek is an important river crossing.

This game introduces the player officers. There are 6 players. in no particular order they are:


Henri Leclerc, a French regular officer
Your objective is to engage and defeat any British regular troops. You will have succeeded if you kill more regular troops than you loose. Capturing any British Officer would be a great prize. You do not approve of the taking of scalps.

German Jaegar officer Johann von Ewald
Your cousin is in the village of Brunnendorf, Your objective is simple you are to rescue her.


Running Bear
As yet your tribe is unaligned; some braves are with the French others with the British. Your objective is simple collect scalps,  if your war party collects more scalps than causalities then you will have succeeded. To collect a scalp you must spend one action after a melee taking the scalps from the dead/dying.

Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw British Officer
Your father was at the Battle of Blenheim. You have heard that a bridge was built over Schoharie Creek to commemorate the Battle. You are taking your small detachment of regulars on a day trip to visit the bridge.  You objective is to make sure the bridge is not destroyed by any French raiders.

Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy French Canadian
You objective is to take female civilian prisoners, you promised a brave in the local Wyandots tribe  a bride. He is a bit fussy so you better take 2, you need to capture 2 ladies and escape the area with them.

Le Vert French Regular officer
Your objective is to destroy the bridge over Schoharie Creek. It takes 2 actions to lay the explosives and 1 to set it off.

The game was a French Raid on  British/German settlement. To win the French must destroy the buildings, the British need to prevent them.

The forces were

2 units of French regulars
2 units French Canadian Militia
3 units Indians
vs

2 units British Regulars
2 units Germans Rangers ( stats as British)
3 units Indians in war canoes in reserve.

Just to be clear the whole table is wood, except for the road, enclosed fields, march and river banks. This saves on model trees but gives alot of cover and more of a frontier feel.

The Bears are just to add character, oh and to attack should the right event come up.

Running Bear's Indian War party. At this stage they are neutral, although probably going to side with the British. That was until Johann von Ewald's German rangers took a pot shot, and they decided to join with the French

Some recently acquired redoubt Indians in War canoes paddle behind the French Canadian Militia.

Running Bear's war party crosses the bridge to provide a distraction for Le Vert's engineers to place the gunpowder on the bridge.

Johann von Ewald's cousin leaves the settlement protected by German jaeger..

Le Vert supervises the placement of explosives.

Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw stands and take on Running Bear's war party.

Unfortunately the French Indians get another action, this resulted in Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw being scapled which unfortunately is a death for the player Character.

Henri Leclerc, a French regular officer - Achieved sideline objective
.

German Jaegar officer Johann von Ewald rescued his cousin.
Running Bear did take  the scalp of   Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw, however lost alot of braves

Hon Algernon Cholmondeley-Mainwaring-Featherstonehaw British Officer was scalped and the bridge was blown.

Jean la Fleur Marqui Du Plaicy French Canadian failed to take any prisoners and barely escaped being scalped.

Le Vert French Regular officer blew the bridge.

In terms of game overall objective, it was  British victory as no buildings were destroyed.