Questions on looting

[5_Star]

I was wondering what all you experts think about looting regions where there is basically zero supply. I know that in the French-Indian War scenario that you get extra VP points for looting, but is it worth while to split up your irregular forces and go on a massive looting spree?

I also have noticed that larger irregular forces will usually loot regions with cities/towns/forts, but single units will not. I guess that has to do with the control of the region and the enemy army strength?

So how do you guys usually go about tearing up the countryside? Larger forces or split up into small single units that loot all the open ground they come across.

In my last scenario I played, (Montcalm) I used mainly single irregular units to set the frontier on fire. I only usually massed them if I felt threatened in the Ft.Duquesne theater, and then I used them mainly to set ambushes which were quite effective against some of the blind commanders the British have.

I really like the way the game design lets you use forces such as irregulars for scouting or ambushes and how good they are at fighting in horrible terrain. And with the Indian commanders they can move through the wilderness like nobody's business.

[Siekster]

I've yet to play as the French in the larger FIW campaign, but I am playing as the Brits in a PBEM. My opponent uses single groups for the most parts, and by summer my countryside has got flaming icons all over it. Occasionally, he'll put a larger group together to try and take a city or 2, but other than that, I find the raiding parties to be just an annoyance and chase them around with my milita.

Like you mentioned, the Fort Duquesne theater may be the exception. It is easy to marshal a lot of indians there to form a pretty large war party. In the Montcalm PBEM game I am playing, I was able to use such a war party to burn Fort Cumberland to the ground, and use the larger war parties to set ambushes for Washington on his way though the wilderness.