So what are your thoughts on how 1.5 is performing?

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Republics will no longer dispute a claim to a throne via a war of succession
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I've always wondered about that. I mean why would a republic dispute a claim to the throne?

Unfortunately in a straight up fight colonial line will beat Tribesmen.

It was in fact the first battle I did, the spanish attacked one of my western provinces and I had two units of tribesman against a general, an artillery unit and one unit of line infantry.

I waited in some tree-lines where I could draw the spanish in and charged them right about as they were setting up their artillery. The AI panicked and packed it up. The first tribesmen unit attacked the general while the second attacked the Line infantry.

Line infantry fired off a volley and killed around 7 of my men, the initial shock was great for the tribesmen but they have no staying power. Line infantry beat them with 60/80 men left while my tribesmen were reduced to 30/80 and routing.

The other tribesman unit killed the enemy general on contact, but then were routed as well by his bodyguard, 35/80 and routing.

I always hate fighting native americans but that's because their archer units can hide and shoot while they always seem to outnumber you in most circumstances. I'd rather fight with Euro factions than them.

From what you're seeing I'm guessing they rebalanced it in favour of the colonials? Natives shouldn't have an issue in hand-to-hand combat (They always best me in those fields)

One thing I noticed in your description however was that you didn't have a general in your army. You just had a captain vs. an actual general which probably made a difference.