American Revolution 2

I'm here now and it's just overwhelming by the amount of British soldiers.

This scenario is like quite a few others, where what looks to be overwhelming opposition is not as strong as it appears. British forces in the north around Richmond/Yorktown are not really a factor provided you move fast enough. As always, focus on the scenario objectives, which in this case is killing generals. You don’t have to occupy the entire map-board or build a world-beating economy. Also, your allies are there to provide seaborne harassment at Wilmington and occupy cities for you. Help them in this mission.


My play-through was finished by turn-9 doing the following.


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This is also one of the few campaigns that a strong infantry general can make a difference, because your assets are few and an infantry unit (3x Light Inf) is within the top-5. To 5-star this you’ll probably need, at start:


- 1 Strong Cavalry General on default double-heavy (UNIT-1)


- 1 Strong Infantry General on 3x LI. Definition of strong: someone that won’t be overwhelmed by Clinton on 3x Guards.
 (UNIT-2)

 -1 Strong Artillery (Sophia/Isabela) on double-light (UNIT 3)


On turn 5-6:
 You’ll want to generate a double-heavy cavalry with a medium or stronger cavalry general. Definition of strong is someone that won’t be immediately overwhelmed by Cornplanter.  This general’s sole mission is to occupy Cornplanter and his sidekick cavalry until game-end
(UNIT 4).  You'll make this stand there to bring your fort into play, and also you probably don't have two strong infantry generals.

And turn 7 or so you’ll want to generate a single Light Artillery (you won’t have assets for or need a double) with your second-string artillery general, whoever that might be (hopefully the other half of the Sophia/Isabela combo). This is necessary to offset the damage that your primary artillery general will have taken.
 (UNIT 5) 


Play-through:

- U1 to Savannah – attacking artillery first. All British forces there are at reduced strength so this is really a multiple-attacks in one-turn, clean-up exercise for a strong cavalry general.


- U3 to Wilmington (unsupported). Attack coastal fort on turn 1. (This is what I’m talking about in supporting your allies – by keeping their ships intact. A coastal fort typically inflicts 4-5 star navy general damage on enemy ships, which is why you want to knock it out before attacking Calder).


- Line infantry (near Dearborn) occupies western fort. Sole mission is to hold it until turn 5-6 when U4 is built.


- Dearborn and U2 head north to take on Duckworth.


- Jackson can hold Charleston for two turn until the Dutch artillery can occupy for him. Then you can move a seriously wounded Jackson west, if you’re feeling paranoid about Cornplanter, but this is unnecessary, his work is done.


- After taking out Duckworth, U2 battles next with Clinton near Charlotte. You’ll want to build U5 at the factory there.


- Then move east toward the last objective (port with privateer). Units 1, 2, 3 and 5 will want to converge there. Calder (the last enemy general to kill) will come to you there, to make life easier for you.

I just passed this mission. Its a blitz mission so i went straight to attacking. I have maria , kate , sophia and kutaisov. I put maria on cavalry to attack savanah on the south and the rest of my troops i sent them to attack in the north. I took down fort in wilmington with sophia and with dearborn and jackson i started taking the cities north (charlotte) with the intention of attacking duckworth and than clinton. After that i moved to take the port and eventually strachan. My army was decimated during that time and spanish managed to take wilmington during the way but i got 5 stars out of it in 7 turns.