1776 once again returned to the Century in 2005 thanks to membership vote. The format remained the first nine months of the Campaign Game with all optional rules except hidden and decoy counters. The players bid the number of strategic towns (out of a total of 24, including Montreal and Quebec) that the British player must control on the last turn.

This year attendance set a new record for this event with 18. The field included a number of new faces, as well as three of the previous four champions: Rod Coffey, Mark Miklos, and Steve Packwood. In general, the British push south from Canada while bringing the majority of their reinforcements into the Southern states, where the Americans are unable to quickly counter them. The Americans try to maintain an effective force in a good position to take back British-controlled towns on the final turn. The most common bid (eight of the17 games played) increased to14 towns this year. Most games were decided by a victory margin of a single town.

In an All-Minnesota final, David Dockter bid 14 towns to play the Redcoats versus eight-time champ Steve Packwood. During the first quarter, the British built bateaus each turn in Quebec. Also, during this time, the British moved three BR by sea from Boston to Norfolk. The fleets then continued offboard and eventually ended up in Quebec in the Spring. The British March reinforcements landed at Head of Elk and marched into Philadelphia. The fleets in Quebec were used to transport a sizeable number of Redcoats to destinations along the American coast during Spring and Summer. In June, with the aid of a Bateau built in May, the British force in Philadelphia surprised a large American force eight movement points away and destroyed it with only light losses. By August, the British had strong forces in all four areas. In the South Central area, the British attacked the only remaining American force at Charlottesville at 2:1 odds hoping to eliminate it and secure the entire area. However, the British were outcarded and rolled a 1 for a No Effect in the first round - resulting in no losses of troops and supplies for the Americans. This allowed the Americans to attack two other cities at 2:1 odds. When the Americans won both battles, David Dockter lacked enough towns to prevent him from denying Steve Packwood his ninth title.

2003 PBeM RESULTS:

Jan Orband of Belgium faced Doug Pratto of Massachusetts for the first ever BPA 1776 PBeM championship using the first nine months of the campaign game and the Boardgamer's Guide leader rules. Doug bid 13 towns to play the British in an exciting, but relatively bloodless, game of maneuver and counter-maneuver. Both players showed a superb grasp of using troops and terrain to block their opponent. Small, well placed British forces impeded American reinforcements to Charleston in March. In May, after Charleston fell, small American forces then impeded British expansion out of the city. The British maintained a few BRs aboard ships at all times, thereby forcing the American to spread his forces thin in order to counter this constant threat to his coastal towns. By August, the American had formed four main blocking forces: Greene in Albany, Arnold in New England, Lincoln in South Carolina, and Washington in Virginia. Although the British player controlled the 13 towns he needed for victory at the end of his September turn, the wily American found a back door into Alexandria and overran the British garrison. Coupled with seizing Newport, Jan Orband reduced the British to 11 victory towns and became the champion.

Others earning laurels in the 20-player event were:

2nd: Doug Pratto, MA
3rd: Stan Buck, MD
4th: Jim Engler, MD
5th: Stu Bieber, WI
6th: Rod Coffey, GA