Well - thank loki100 for the game. It was daring of you, not only to battle a seasoned played, but also to have this battle shown to everyone in this AAR. So, thank you.
I actually played poorly in my opinion. I used your inexperience to take Duquesne early, so really 1755 was good for me, but then I was completely unable to capitalize on my advantage to attack Niagara much earlier. My attacks were in general poorly coordinated and quite inefficient, the best example being 1759 - 17610: I try to land in Québec MUCH too late in the year (due to poor transport management), left too late as well, and thus could not land again early the following year. So I tried to land in New York and then come from the South, but it took me a full year - a full year during which my "Champlain" army was alone. If I had not landed in 1759 at all, I could have started 1760 with two armies at once in Quebec and maybe end the war one year earlier.
This is just an example, there are other such failures in my attempt to take Niagara - remember it took me something like 3 attempts, even though I was unlucky in one case.
Also, I was very lucky in 1760, as Loki100 did several "beginner" mistakes :
- Not trying to sortie in Montréal when I had just arrived ; I would probably have been defeated
- Attacking in Joliette with Montcalm, allowing me to maul his army.
Without those, I would have had a minor victory.
On the other hand, Loki100 had the strategy of not trying to go for victory at all but instead try to force me to settle for a minor victory (which would have saved the French Quebec from a time - and maybe English America in the long run). Thus, quickly, I had such an advantage in Victory Point that I could not lose :
Wise strategy since it was the first time Loki100. It should have made things easy for me at the beginning, but I did not dare take too much risks, that why I did not capitalize on the early Duquesne fall, but when we arrived at the end of the game and brought the war in the core French territories, I was faced not a badly depleted army like I used to in this scenario, but a powerful army. This made things... difficult, and it took me time.
As a bonus, National Morale :
So Great Game, Loki !