Levies arrive at various towns totaling 22 units raised to the Continental cause. Not a huge amount but better than I had expected. Fort Stanwix received 1 militia to bring its garrison up to 2 units.
Albany received 2 regulars. I’ll try and get these two units with Washington’s army sometime this coming game year.
John Glover was caught outside Skenesboro by Prescott (Glover was trying to move to Norwich and Intel had failed to spot Prescott) and soundly smashed. Prescott led 11 regular companies (4 were grenadiers) and 2 artillery companies. Glover had 4 regular companies and 3 marine companies.
The battle shows Glover took 6 hits and lost 5 companies, the British suffered 3 hits and lost no companies. The curious part is that the regular unit in Glover’s army only lost 3 of its 4 companies, but it has disappeared from the map.
There is no text in the message area telling what happened to the unit and the unit is not in any Continental controlled cities. The message text does say the Continentals successfully retreated from the battle, so I’m at a loss as to where the unit went. Glover himself went to Albany to recover from wounds.
Norwich saw a total of 5 units. 2 militias and 3 regulars. This brings Washington’s army up to 11 regulars, 1 light, 3 militia, 2 under-strength Dragoons (total of 5 companies between them), 2 artillery units and 7 supply wagons.
If I can get 2 regulars trained up by spring, I’ll leave them behind as a garrison and take the rest of the army on campaign to retake Ticonderoga. I’ll possibly head towards Canada afterwards unless British moves require some attention.
Hartford finally falls to direct assault by Leslie’s army causing 4 hits to the attacking army. I’m very pleased with the performance of the Hartford militia unit. These guys held up the British for almost 6 months. Granted it was probably due to British strategic roll failures, but better to have Leslie’s army kill 1 militia unit whenever he makes a roll than to have him attack my big army.
1 militia unit pops up at Trenton this turn and finds itself isolated behind British lines. I’ve ordered it to capture Princeton and it will sit there as a blocking force until an opportunity to escape to friendly lines pops up or it is attacked.
1 militia appeared at Fredrick and it has orders to march to Alexandria to join Greene’s militia army there.
Wayne’s army at Baltimore now has 3 regulars and 1 light and I’ve ordered the 1 regular that appeared at Alexandria to march to Baltimore to join with Wayne. Hopefully Wayne will train these guys fast so I can feel more comfortable using them and not worry about them disbanding with my militias.
Greene’s army is now comprised of 4 militias (soon to be 5) and 2 supply wagons. Once he has all 5 militias he’ll head south to join up with a militia unit at Petersburg giving him a total of 6 militias to face the 4 or so British units believed to be operating in the Norfolk-Hillsboro region.
Hopefully things will go well this spring and I can drive the British out of this area for good as it is their weakest region right now. Everywhere else British strength is steadily growing and I’ve been losing ground.
In the Deep South, 1 militia arrived at Hillsboro bringing Marion’s garrison up to 2 units. I’ll leave both units with him since Partisans disband just like militia, so this will give him 2 chances to have some units stay in garrison during disbandments.
Sumter has met up with his militia unit and has orders to enter Charlotte as garrison (8 days march).
I received 1 militia at Camden bringing Lee’s total to 5 militias. 1 will remain behind as garrison and Lee will march to the area of Colleton along the road southwest to meet up with the 2 regulars that appeared at Charleston that will be marching up from the south.
The 1 militia that appeared at Charleston will remain behind to augment Charleston’s garrison units.
Luckily the British did not move on Savannah as no units arrived there as levies. I’d like to get at least 1 unit down there to augment the garrison, but the British are in Lee’s way.
Several new Tory units appear to have popped up in Augusta and Ninety Six though, so Lee will probably have some hard fighting to retake those two locations and open a path to Savannah.
When combined Lee’s army will only have 2 regulars, 4 militias and 2 supply wagons (command of 8/8), so I’m not sure if he’ll be able to pull much off this year. Hopefully some new leaders will appear and I’ll be able to get a stronger army put together.
AARGH! I just realized Moultrie is missing from Lee's army. He must have been killed back in November’s battle at Colleton and I simply missed the text about it. That or he withdrew or something.