The first time I ever played as France (soon after ETW release) the Inuit DOW'd me and immediately attacked Newfoundland with a half stack of mounted troops who stood around for a bit getting shot to bits by my firelockies safe in their houses. Then routed and were never seen again. If only they could have dismounted like dragoons do. Ah well they can't be expected to have access to such sophisticated European drills the poor savages.

I similarly lost one of my first ever ETW battles as the Marathas with an army consisting entirely of cavalry and elephants who could not fight a single unit of Mughal militia scum holed up in a house.