1755 Colonial Campaign Variant

[KG Erwin]

One question about this: what does one do with all the Provinicial units that appear annually in this campaign? Sure, I can garrison every village in New England, but that's all these guys are good for. There are not enough British commanders to go around, so there's no chance of forming a NE Army. I've long wondered about that. While my field armies are consistently trying to keep at manageable strength, all these provinicals do are eating up replacements and supplies. Perhaps this is how it really was, but it says to me that the British foresaw no difficulty in defeating them 20 years later. It is definitely an interesting campaign, though, and a good preview to the Revolutionary War.

[caranorn]

In my current game I try to train most of my provincials. That way they actually make good troops. I also rotate depleted units out of my field forces and fresh ones in (keeping all the non training leaders with the field forces). So right now it's only the militia units that are sent to garrison isolated towns against raiders. By carefully keeping only my depleted regulars set to passive mode in depot cities I also prevent my regular/provincial replacements going to the wrong units...

Note that getting leaders promoted also goes a long way towards keeping more units in the field. This is a big improvement from previous patches, though it might be unbalancing for certain scenarios...