Wednesday, September 12, 2012

How the Campaign Will Be Run

It is going to be a "what if scenario" where General Wilkinson had his sights on much more than Lacolle mills at the time, and wanted to try and secure the whole Champlain area, and improve his reputation, after his dismal display during the St. Lawrence campaign.

I have the battle boxes set up like this:

BNA Chambly - St. Jean - Ille aux Noix - Lacolle

 *** Odelltown *** 
Rouses Point - Plattsburgh - Split Rock - Ticonderoga   Americans

Having Odelltown as the starting point and the Americans as the initial invaders, with the British having their home at Chambly and the Americans at Ticonderoga.

I am using a campaign idea submitted by another member in the "Maurice" section at Sam Mustafa's Honour forum, and I quote from Mark C's post (a.k.a. engmarkinus2), so you get the idea of how he suggested setting up a simple campaign:

"I'd like to keep the campaign simple to start with.  Just have a sliding scale of "Battle boxes" in a line with a "home objective" at either end. The number of boxes would depend on how long you wanted the campaign to run. Both armies start in the middle. A marginal victory moves the armies one square toward the losers "home", a decisive one moves 2 squares. 


Map Showing Relative Locations of Each Battle Area
Obviously, a side losing a battle in it's home objective loses the campaign and sues for peace.

You could also have surprise attacks (not starting in middle square), or have "set" terrain in the squares (e.g for a colonial campaign with more woods/jungle).

Perhaps the above will give some pointers for further thought, but that's what I came up with off the top of my head as it were."

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