January-February 1758 (French version)
I'll conflate these turns as not too much happened outside the campaign in the south and even that is more a sequence of sieges and active scouting.
January
I won't show these repeatedly but like Narwhal I have a general with the 'training' trait (need I say that later on he tries to kill him?). Put him with a pile of militia and over time he'll convert them to regulars. Now my basic militia are better in any case, but even so best to make them as good as I can. This is a steady production line that I keep running for the next couple of years.
Over in the west, my garrison at Vincennes is now down to one month's supply. Kittens, children and other innocents across the region tremble at the possible outcomes if it falls. Due to winter, we are effectively starving each other, the fort will be held almost literally by the last man standing.
and here's the situation down the south. My scouts at Charleston indicate the garrison there is not too strong, so if I can dispose of the main English army in the region it could all go rather well. I'll send them to Atlanta to check that out, and assault Savannah this turn.
FEB
which falls ... so that is two ports I now have, though Beaufort will be retaken as its only held by a militia battalion - useful to know that these will automatically spawn in a fort when it is besieged.
and by scouting Atlanta, its clear there really is only one obstacle to complete French domination of the south (well there are two but we'll come to that in due time). Due to Narwhal's fleet, my boats with guns and supplies turn back to Louisbourg, but I have some more regulars and a supply wagon in the West Indies I can ferry around.
Now, I have a thing about cannons, so am spending my EPs (I usually get 2 per turn), on some more.
Time for a brief discussion of my strategy for 1758, Should stress I've only just learnt how much damage I indirectly inflicted around Ontario and Niagara. So what I thought I'd done was to force Narwhal to spend guns and supplies on rebuilding those forts ... especially on Niagara I reckoned this would take the year, so that Detroit (a VP city was safe).
On the central route, up Lake Champlain, I expected an attack. However, Montcalm was sitting around Mont Royal with a large army. If Narwhal went overland, I think I'd catch him with low org (as usual I'll have scouts out everywhere I can), if he comes across the lake I doubt he has the boats to deliver a really large force, so Montcalm (who has lots of nice bonuses ... he's sort of the Frederick in this scenario) should be able to fend them off.
That leaves the east. Louisbourg is key. As long as I hold it, Narwhal can't operate up the St Lawrence, that means I can prioritise Mont Royal over Quebec. If it falls, he can land at Quebec and I need to split my army up.
In bits over 1757, I've shifted more guns, more supply wagons and more battalions to Louisbourg. It has to be a passive defence, but I think I can build up a supply stock to last the summer of 1758, then Narwhal has to retreat for the winter. If it is still standing in spring 1759, he can't attack Quebec till 1760.
We'll come to why the extra supply wagons were so vital later. I did it 'blind' ie it seemed like a good idea to do, I now realise it was a very useful as forts that are out of supply (regardless of the strength of the garrison), &, I believe organic supply left with the battalions, run the risk of surrendering. So Louisbourg has something like 7 months supply there now ... enough to cover the campaigning season.