Columbus and Me

Alright, so it is about 1920 and nobody has yet to move to the "New World". I take the initiative and get two transports full of 4 total settlers, an infantry unit, and a Calvary rifle unit. After I get there there is no sign of barbarians/natives and I set up my settlements and have my armies chillin where they can easily get around to defend. I spot a barbarian settlement to the south, at about present day Rio de Janeiro. I upgrade my Calvary to a gunship and move it in to finish off and take the settlement. At this point in game play, I am under the impression that they will be nothing but barbarians with clubs and llamas, but that is not the case at all! They have 3 units of Grenadiers and they blew the !@#$ out of my gunship! And the they easily overtook the rest of my settlements (which had units building but were nowhere near completion). I lost all 4 of my settlements and my men. Hooray conquest.

So, in the real world Columbus was met with little Resistance and easily overtook the Americas with inaccurate weapons, but my conquest took place 500 years later and was apparently enough time for them to develop at the same rate as some of the lesser empires in the known world. Where as Columbus was met with little resistance I was met head on with technological advances I had not calculated on. I also over calculated my own strengths and therefore brought over fewer protection units than necessary. Now that I am prepared I know what to and what not to do for future conquests of the new world.