A Few Acres of Snow - Tips & Strategies

Acquiring the Governor is going to become necessary around mid-game.
Don’t be afraid to return location cards back to the deck to really push your deck size down. You are giving up the possibility of continuing to explore down that area, but if you are trying to maximize another strategy; i.e., sieging, Abmushing/Raiding, then it’s well worth it.

Expand for a the first few turns to get your self into 1-2 village range of the French (Deerfield, Albany, Cumberland). Don’t worry about getting settlers, canoe or ship cards. Once you’ve expanded to a decent point, start raking up money and taking in some military units and try and keep your money up a tad. Use the govenor card to get rid of the new location cards you’ve acquired. You’re not looking to expand anymore, you want a siege friendly deck.
Pick one route to siege through. Going through Halifax in a pursuit to get to Quebec is the longer route, but you can stage the invasions with your starter deck.
You can also go through Albany, to get to Quebec. If you choose to go through Albany, then obviously don’t governor the Albany route cards.
Because you’re not able to expand any further into other areas, the French will start to expand where they can if you’re sieging.
Pull in the neutral Native American cards to prevent him from ambushing out your military units and giving you options to also raid/ambush him to keep his military down low and making sieging more likely victories for you.

This strategy is tricky if the game ends up being close, because the French will need to settle the great lakes areas and in doing so they could still have more points than you, so either be raiding their locations or fortifying your areas to ensure those double points.

If your playing as the French then move up slowly towards Detroit and grab some of those easy points up top. I won my first game 34-42 mostly because I found I was stalling in other strategies and decided to end the game quicker and grab settlement points instead of going for the military victory. Then in future games if your the French again and same friend is playing British they might have to play more towards Philly and go north that way to prevent those points, which brings their focus away from Quebec.

Apologies if this is already inferred in the rules, but we could not find it anywhere and and feel that the Governor should be able to replace himself to your empire deck.
By late game if you’ve cleaned up your deck to a good point, the Governor becomes ironic by being the only element in your deck you no longer want. The game lasts long enough as it it, so we felt it was appropriate to rule that the governor can remove himself from your deck.