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.
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Well I am going to assume you meant to say that Columbus lead the way for taking over America, and not that he actually took it over himself. Conquistadors like Cortez were actually the ones who were able to defeat the great Aztec and Incan empires with guns and steel weapons, but mostly because of the germs they brought over which the natives had no immunity for from centuries of exposure (like Europeans already had from living with domesticated animals). So if you want to conquer the Americas my advice to you is to not fight, but rather to give the natives a kind gift of blankets, preferably infested with smallpox germs...
That's ridiculous. I'm in the modern era and not only are all the barbarians I've encountered still in the stone age, but all of the other weaker civilizations are hundreds of years behind mine too. You definitley had the right plan to go settle in the Americas. I did that in around the Oceanic area and it's definitley paid off. If I were you, I wouldn't let the barbarians discourage you from settling there any more. You should just go there with more men next time and get rid of them. That way you'll have practically the entire continent to yourself.
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