However, no matter what you do, you will still end up destroying their traditional way of life as your borders expand and eventually push out their settlements while your missionaries lure their young men out into your own colonies.

Benevolent Alien Invasion: If you decide to not go with the Conqueror/Manifest Destiny route, you can try to peacefully co-exist with the natives - trading and sending your colonists to live with them, actually paying them for the land that you occupied, and using your missionaries to covert part of their population to live with your colonists.

A justified example however to allow for 8 player games.

For example, Russia in 1492 was the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which occupied only what is now European Russia and was in no way a great power or able to colonise the Americas. Freecol adds Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and Russia.In reality, this model really only makes sense for the English (see We All Live in America below) the Spanish wanted to plunder and convert the natives, the French and Dutch wanted to expand industry and trade. On top of this, you attract new colonists to your colony by employing people as preachers, whose religious message generates holy points (crosses), and every N crosses attracts a new colonist.Avowedly Protestant Dutch and largely Protestant (and certainly Anti-Jesuit) English Empires sending Jesuit missionaries to convert natives? Jesuit order itself was not founded until 1540.At that time, the closest thing to an independent Dutch state was the mass of principalities known as the Burgundian Inheritance, whose nominal ruler (the Holy Roman Emperor-elect's grandson) was only 14. Artistic License History: All four colonial empires begin the game in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World.

It is also subject to Mook Chivalry: No matter how big the Royal fleet, only six units (the carrying capacity of one Man-o-War) will land in the New World each turn, allowing you to defeat them piecemeal.The REF will also stupidly place their units in terrain that gives your attacking units huge 'ambush' bonuses, such as hills and mountains. They will simply land right next to one of your least-defended colonies and attack it directly, ignoring any of your units outside the colony until they have captured it.

The Royal Expeditionary Force isn't very smart in the original game, and attacks in a very predictable pattern.Alternate History: In the Americas map, European nations are randomly assigned starting positions on the Atlantic Ocean, meaning that for instance the Spanish could colonize what is now New England, whereas the Dutch could battle the Inca and Aztec empires.

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