Discovering

[Sheogorath]

Wish I knew more about the history of the area... New Zealand really that bad?

The New Zealand natives were basically the Asian equivalent of the Zulu. Except they took a while to get mad enough to really get into things. But they did have two wars with the Brits and, if I remember, nearly won one of them.
They may also have gone into battle hopped up on enough local herbage to ignore anything short of an elephant gun. But I may be thinking of the Filipino's in that case.

[pevergreen]

Maori warriors were pretty scary, to each other at least.

I can imagine the native troops for Australia though:

Kangaroo mounted Boomerang throwers.