The 22nd Foot get involved with Edna

I`m still enjoying gaming the French Indian War in 10mm.  This week I decided on a longer table using some solo gaming mechanisms.  Setting out the table, with crisscrossing tracks was the easy part.  I then spread six green dice around, showing 1 to 6, as event points.  A British figure coming within 12cm of one of these dice would trigger an Edna roll.  The first dice would generate an encounter on a six, the second on a five and so on.  

The first Edna roll... a six!  The column is ambushed

The French/Indians could setup anywhere as long as one of the figures in their group was within 12cm of the dice.  I added a second roll to this.  On a 1 or 2 the French had a war party of five figures, on a 3-4 five plus a big man, and 5-6 a group of ten with a big man.  I had already decided that the Native Americans would break and run if they lost over a third of the figures in any group, reflecting their propensity to fight another day...

The French, serving under Major George Curieux, had no set figure number since they would be randomly generated.  The 22nd Foot had Colonel Whitmore with two groups of ten redcoats, and a group of eleven Colonial Rangers under Captain Roger Rogers. 

Groups of Indians appeared, fired at the redcoats and then ran for one of the unused event points, vanishing into the undergrowth.  At one point they appeared behind the Colonel`s neat lines lead by Major Curieux, and began sniping.  Curious George's ambush went astray however.  The Colonel about faced his line and delivered a crushing volley.  According to Packenham this sort of this should not work, but perhaps Colonel Whitmore had failed to read this... 

The end of the game saw an excellent Indian ambush that isolated the British baggage.  It wasn`t in enough strength however and melted away as the British closed in.  The Colonial rangers performed really well.  Captain Roger Rogers is clearly very able.

This is an excellent period for a solo game.  I could not have predicted the spread of ambushes.  At a certain level I think the French lead Native Americans won.  The casualties however seem to disagree with this.   Seven British, five redcoats and two provincials, against nine Indians.  I`m not sure that Colonel Whitmore would bother to count provincials so that is a 5/9 victory.

Major George Curieux will seek his revenge...