Fort Beauséjour/Cumberland is basically where Sackville is. Cape Enrage is the area sticking out on the north side, direct south of the NB 114 marker

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And it worked! He had to settle for Northfield

My opponent was quite unlucky tho. Taking Albany, he was rolling a bit badly and, worried about my militia actually preventing from taking the settlement, he used a Rigaud reroll, after initially deciding not to. And then Rigaud died!

I had bad luck of my own at times, for sure. But still, to lose Rigaud so early, and in a battle against militia...

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I wish I had taken a picture in midsummer, because it was a very dramatic year. Despite the initial setback, I set out to do almost everything I wanted to do. I was able to Round Up Men & Equipment (that's a card), get back a brigade, and actually bring the Boscawen fleet from New York to Annapolis Royal. Then I attacked and routed the stack at Fort Beauséjour, killing both French brigades, taking the fort, and (because somehow my boats did not sink his) forcing a retreat down the coast to Kwanoskwamcok - but to my mind, not nearly so far as that, maybe somewhere like Cape Enrage

The spaces are just an artifact of the game system and all

I pursued the fleet and managed to damage a French light unit but somehow the one French fleet he'd drawn earlier in the turn (unlucky) managed to escape me, and then Retreat to the Sail box (for free!). So then the fleet took the Malécite and Mi'kmaq units and the surviving French guy to Newfoundland, which was undefended

I was very tempted to send my fleet to Newfoundland to try to sink his boat one more time (which would mean the boat can't just go back to Europe and get repaired) but in the end, because I had rolled the "move your fleet to an adjacent area" die face (which almost never has any use) during my seek-and-destroy mission, and sent my damaged ship back to Chignecto, and had already decisively won, I sent that boat, the artillery, and two met brigades to New York City

The French and their allies had by this point marched into Albany (my single most important space), built a fort, and teamed up with the Haudensaunee, so that was looking bad. I had managed to chase the French out of Carlisle and built my own fort there, but I didn't have quite enough juice to confront the French stack... which is why I had to bring troops back to New York City, then have the two stacks (the Carlisle troops, with Forbes as commander, and the troops fresh from the Maritimes) march on Albany

Pix from winter's end

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