Americas Campaign Apachaen question

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

Or this https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=91153

[Guyus Germanicus]

Thanks for the help, guys. But wouldn't you know it, almost as soon as I logged my question onto this thread, my Apaches acquired the 'experience' to build the Onde's and Koitsenko's. Murphy's Law strikes again?!

It's funny . . . I was looking forward to Kingdoms so I could play the Crusades, but the first in-depth game I started was with the Apaches. Strange, eh?

There was just something about the attraction of playing the plains Apachean faction that tweaked my sense of history. There's an author named George Hyde who has written some very remarkable books on the history of the Indian tribes in North America pre-European contact that are very well done. He was a protege of Grinnell. And just moving these warbands across roadless prairie and woodlands kind of excited my interest.

I like the fact that the Apachean faction's tech tree doesn't follow the population increase of its settlements like other factions, but is based on experience gained thru exposure to other factions in combat.

I'm still working on the French incursion into my lands. Robert de Salle has showed up in Texas. Hate to slaughter his troop. I always rather admired his intrepidity having read Francis Parkman's account. The English have settled somewhere on the game board but they're definitely not on the North America continent 'proper' because I've got too many spies and warrior bands running around the east coast and Carolinas, and I haven't seen them yet. I'm assuming they invaded Cuba and took it from the Spanish, because the Spanish have been eliminated from the game by someone.

Anyway thanks again for responding, and I shall take a look at those threads you mentioned.