How to play offensive with natives?

[chemfy]

I have recently played alot of mp battles and most of them are just everyone defending... Since I like playing with natives alot I have noticed this to be a problem since I have a hard time attacking defending european countries with their line infantry and riflemen...

[SgtDisco]

Flanking with stealthy units is the obvious answer but they'll probably counter with long line of sight units like Riflemen. Medicine Men have a great morale hit on the enemy. Numbers and speed are also on your side so try tying their Line Infantry into melee with cheap units and bring some harder hitting elite units to bear without getting chewed up by volleys on the way in. Also try and get some cavalry in behind to get at their General and artillery, obvious I know but always effective, particularly if your opponent is distracted by other attacks.

Really though you're going to have to be good to win consistently with Natives.

[daniu]

I haven't played Natives myself yet, but I think the trick is to swarm single (or few) enemy units to break morale and cause a chain rout.
May I recommend Angelos' commentary video with Natives.

[chemfy]

Well I played alot of games and noticed a few things... Using cheap infantry as meat shields and having elite behind them works great agains normal line infantry that are bad in melee but unfortunately guards caused alot of problems and killed most of my melee infantry... About flanking with stealth units I noticed that on alot of maps that don't haven't got a lot of forests your flanking units get spotted really easily.