On the Horribly Incorrect Inuit

[Fisherking]

It would be nice if TW had some more environmental effects. I think in STW, birds flew from trees when hidden guys started moving in them. If it wasn't, it would be nice to atleast include that.

I agree.

In a perfect world where all the video works and the game is stable clouds of Passenger Pidgins and Carolina Parakeets would be wonderful. I wouldn’t mind seeing the park like forests with wild turkey, wood buffalo and swarms of deer and water foul either. The American part of the game would almost make a great stand alone with a few additions.

As it is though, the game has its issues. Still it has some memory leaks and some battles never seem to load, leading mostly to disastrous auto resolves for me, at least.


Not to mention putting the correct tribes where they go!

edit:

As to the Tribes being over powered, I have not found it so.

At least not yet!

In Chapter 4 of RTI I managed to clean the floor with the Huron with close to even number. I had a few less men but had one cannon battery and I took them on to wipe them out after about 4 battles.

The Cherokee are dastardly evil in this game, but that is more for their raids. They actually took the Carolinas and destroyed every building. I was just out of intercept range too. I took it back the next turn and a turn later I finished the game.

[NimitsTexan]

Man for Man, American Indians are more powerful than European soldiers in the first half of the game. Obviously, this is debatable. I personally disagree that Indians, particularly those not armed with firearms, were that effective against European troops. If you look at most Indian victories, they occured when (a) the Indians had adapted to some degree, European technology and/or (b) they had signifcant numerical advantages. There are few, if any examples, of Indians going toe to toe with similar or superior numbers of European or American model infantry and Cavalry.

However, the bigger issue, of course, is that the Indian factions (which historically struggled to put 1,000-2,000 men in the same place by the time of the French and Indian War), are able to put together multiple armies of 1500+ 5-10 years into the game, while European nations are generally fielding armies half their size. Forget that, accepting that the game plays out at somewhere around a 1:5-1:10 scale, the Indian armies in game are often several times bigger, at 1:1, than their real life counterparts.

[ConnMon]

When playing as Sweden once I brought over maybe a 3/4 stack of soldiers (line infantry mostly, maybe 1 or 2 cannons) and conquered the inuit with no problems whatsoever. I later traded tht region for Newfoundland (which was much more profitable).