How do you absorb New England / New Spain?

[GM1940]

Sorry if this is obviously stated somewhere: I seem to recall that to absorb New England a British player must take New France and the Cherokee territories: Spain I haven't heard the conditions before.

Where is this listed? It doesn't seem to be in the manual or the GC briefings, and I'm wondering if I actually read it in pre-release reviews or something.

[pevergreen]

It gives you a mission in game.

Britain has to take 3 territories (Cherokee Territory, Georgia and New France), I havent played as France or spain.

[A Very Super Market]

France already has control over New France, but Louisiana is separate, right?

[GM1940]

Correct. I'd really like to have this info from the getgo so I can plan. If you look at Spain, punching bag of the 18th century, being able to have all that territory in a TW style strat map would allow for some crazy revisionist fun.

[A Very Super Market]

Eh, Spain went down so hard because of Monarchial stupidity, and all the riches from SA, which inflated their economy past the point of recovery.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Look in your achievements screen. If you have a mission, it will be there. As France you have to capture three regions from the Iroquois and the Cherokee.

[Maleficus]

It gives you a mission in game.

Britain has to take 3 territories (Cherokee Territory, Georgia and New France).

This might make it a little easier, not that I'd condone that sort of thing, of course.

Easy 13 Colonies

[Polemists]

What the heck is in New Mexico?

Not much, Spain tries to give it away for good reason. First it dosn't actually connect to Tejas or Lower Louisana to it's almost the most isolated region there. Second, since the map quite literally just "ends" and there is no pacific ocean, you can't actually trade anything you make there. It had one small town, one plantation and a very small city.

Lower Louisana and the 13 are much better regions do to ports.