The year is 2020. Because of the lockdown, I have played quite a few solo games of GMT Games’ excellent series of COIN wargames. And since Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection by Harold Buchanan is my favourite COIN game (or at least one of my favourite ones), I have played a lot of solo LoD games. And since “British Return to New York” is my favourite scenario set-up, I have played it a lot. Twelve times, actually. Which I think warrants an analysis of the results. With four Winter Quarters cards and French preparations at 9, “British Return to New York” guarantees that the French are in the war at the end of the first campaign or at the beginning of the second one, meaning the game is going to be meaty soon enough. The length of the game also makes sure that many if not all Brilliant Stroke cards will be played (something I haven’t seen in the sorter scenarios). Here are the statistics from the twelve games I’ve played; four as the British player, three as the Patriot or