The best way to avoid loss of life is to stand still and lure the enemy to you. If you can do that you can get in advantageous positions and gun them down with relative ease.

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But what do you do with their artillery?!?! It must be silenced somehow...

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Well what I did was take 4 units, the three units of Hessian Line and the unit of Akirmishers, and sit them behind the hill that is infront of your starting point, where cannon cant hit them.

I sent the rest of my army to the second ford. Afte ra careful advance at the second ford the Americans decided to try and take out the small reserve I had left at the first ford. Unfortunately for them they didn't realise I had hidden the skirmishers and a unit of Hessians in the trees and my men ambushed them and gunned them down.

Since they sent units in two at a time I managed to take out six units of American troops with relatively little loss of life. After that I ran Dragoons across the first ford and charged and destroyed their arty.

Then I attacked from the second ford and the first and pincered General Washington and his remaining forces at the small hamlet.

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Try positioning part of your force in defensive positions on the flanking ford but don't cross, leave your Hessians and light foot around where they started (on a reverse slope to avoid arty), and send your horse artillery to the middle of the map and fire away. After a while, a couple of American dragoons will cross the second ford and try to go for your arty, followed by a couple of minutemen and one unit of rifles, but you should have overwhelming superiority at the second ford (putting hussars close to your arty helps). The Americans might decide to cross at the first ford after that, but by this point you'll already have destroyed a good proportion of their force, and have forced them to cross.

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The easiest option is just to compltely ignore the guarded crossing, and move all units to the ungarded crossing. double speed your dragoons and lights to get across before the colonials try blocking. Then simply march all your units up the road towards the town, 3xhessian + 2 standard line inf, in a line, with the lights on the right flank, and dragoons on the left. 2x Guards, highlanders and grenadiers in support, with your remaining cavalry behind them. place the horse artillery on the left on the hill.

The colonials will have formed a line or double line near the town to defend, but you will shoot them down easily. and you can end it after a few volleys from your frontline and then a quick charge by your fresh guards/grenadiers/highlanders, and quickly envelop the defenders with your cavalry while they are busy with your guards. its just a matter of riding down teh remaing 4 batteries of foot artillery.

I've tried 3 times now with small adjustments, i usually get a 4:1 or better kill ratio.

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