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    Default Privateers Off Cape Cod

    Sunday afternoon, we played an action with nine players. It's late in the American Revolution, and a British convoy from Halifax of ten unarmed merchant ships is being escorted by a 5th rate and two post ships. If they're successful, they will get needed supplies and payroll to Cornwallis, to facilitate building a port in Yorktown.

    Off Cape Cod, five privateers and a 32 gun Continental frigate intercept them.

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    The wolves descend, and the convoy is thrown into chaos.

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    It was a ferocious game of Whack-a-Mole. The three escorts dashed around the board trying to recapture merchantmen and deal blows enough to chase off the privateers. USS Brandywine waded through the middle keeping the escorts from focusing on the privateers. When it was over, the British managed to sink one privateer and maul many, but the convoy was shredded. The only merchant still in British hands was the payroll ship.

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    Next time there need to be less moles or more British.
    Last edited by Dobbs; 02-25-2020 at 05:49.

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