Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
*Ahem*.


I'm rather curious about the first phase of the Independence campaign. I hope we won't be expected to fight Native Americans all the time, as the settlers in Jamestown and Plymouth benefitted from the friendship and assistance of local tribes for quite a few years. Not that they didn't have to deal with hostile natives as well, but they weren't constantly skirmishing with them either.

In general, I just hope that the campaign's first phase will focus more on developing your colony and conducting diplomacy with the locals than with warfare.
Sorry bout dat, back to topic. The Jamestown and Plymouth settlements had numerous violent squabbles with neighboring tribes over land and scarce resources. Most of it was small scale fights with small bands, but then that was normally how the native tribes interacted with each other and amongst different groups within their own tribe. Annihilation was rarely the goal between native groups, though it did happen occasionally. However as the European settlers expanded in number much more pressure for the resources forced dislocations and mass migrations of native populations farther west and the violence increased along with it. Diplomacy was crucial for the survival of the early European settlements, less so as these settlers became more proficient in frontier survival, much of it learned from the natives themselves. Let no good deed go unpunished.