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April 11, 2023 at 4:38 am #1811888

phaidknott

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@oriskany Was watching your Force on Force videos and something you said struck a chord with me about how casualties are handled between regular and insurgent forces….

So perhaps you could count the “points” (if your game even has points costings) for the casualties in an AWI differently. British and Hessian (and possibly French) troops count as double (for example) as their replacements are an ocean away. Whereas the Continentals and Loyalist Militia just count their normal points when totalling up the points lost (thus it gives the Crown player a “push” to fielding Loyalist Militia on the table (I can’t even remember seeing a loyalist militia unit on an AWI table that wasn’t mine in 30 odd years of wargaming here in the UK)). Perhaps the later trained Continental line regts might also go into this increased costing for calculating casualties?

Anyhow thus you might see the Crown forces winning (as usual), but perhaps this ends up as a pyrrhic victory as the victory was too costly in men and materials (with the replacements being months away from getting to the US)?