New wargame captures uncertainty of the American Revolution

Shrouded in myth and pride, the conception of the Revolutionary War is of redcoats marching stiffly through fields and woods while being picked off by wily colonists hiding behind trees, all to the tune of Johnny Horton’s “The Battle of New Orleans” (“we fired our guns, and the British kept a-coming”).

But as America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,…