Attempted Assassination (Legends of the High Seas AAR)

The 27th ult. [Editor's Note: Ult. means last month] Lieutenant Francis Merryman a defender of that celestial jewel LIBERTY survived an attack by those serpents in your midst, the TORIES.  As he returned to his lodging-house in town, he was set upon by three of those miserable miscreants.  He emptied the contents of his pistol into Mr. Richard Harrison, a notable landowner and Tory, who fell. 

Lieutenant Merryman withdrew into a nearby house, where he then shot another of his assailants.  Information just received suggests he may have been connected to that all-devouring HYDRA, the EAST-INDIA COMPANY.

The last man, a Highlander, assailed him with his broadsword and pistol.  He fought mightily but was not able to prevail against Lieutenant Merryman, who finally cut him down.

 

 

O ye friends of LIBERTY, are your wits so besotted as to allow these vipers, these TORIES, to spring up within your midst?  Gird on the implements of MARS and show these craven TORIES that the RIGHTS and LIBERTIES of AMERICA are not to be trampled by monarchs and base hirelings.

 

 

 

 

James Hiller, correspondent of the Pennsylvania Gazette

(Ruleset: Legends of the High Seas.  I tried a similar small-scale game with Muskets and Tomahawks which was a complete disaster.  Legends of the High Seas handled it very well, despite being designed for slightly larger skirmishes.  I look forward to trying other small-scale encounters with it.)