Hi all
Ive had to restart Britain after a couple of times and ive finally found a good way to start.
My problem was always that by around 1715 the thirteen colonies were decimated by cherokee and iroquios indians - literally about 3 colonies left - so dont leave em too long on their own!
This game now is going much better - i have them all under control and away to finish off the huron. You need to absolutely steamroll the cherokee at the start - make it a priority. Send in as big a stack of line inf, dragoons and cannon from the islands as you can muster (mabye around 10-14 units) and take georgia - then dont hang around and march on to cherokee territory
Research bayonets as a priority!
Start sending indiamen to the ivory coast and also a fleet to remove the pirates (you can take this back to the uk later)
Also ditch the church and build a school in the uk.
After you have killed the cherokee using blitzkrieg
wait and build up a couple of turns. finally take your fleet up to new france and smash it with one shot. After that spain and France will declare war - simply give new france back and both nations will make peace - the 13 colonies will have joined you though - great success