Invasion of the new world.

**Lurtz700** · October 29, 2013, 10:38 AM

Hey everyone as i have not rearly seen meany of these yet i thought i would do one myself

Setting sail

The new world event apperers at around turn 150-180 though most players proberbly know this for any beginers what is does is oppens up the portion of the map where the bar is on the mini map and replaces it with a steak ok black much like the fog of war.But a much denser one where you cant see anything. So your first order of buissnes is to construct drydocks at your citys. However to do this you have to make your you have a regular dockyard (A good tip is to be prepered a few 5-10 turns before so you can as as much time as possible in the new world) So about the drydocks in my opiniun the best place to build them is in the citys London,Cean,beardoux,Rennes,Leon.Toledo,and Lisbon. As they have the easiest acsess to the Atlantic sea. So the next thing is what troops to bring of course theres the boats but what ground troops? Well in my opiniun bring lots of the best mussketiers at least 1 cannon 3-5 Heavy cavalry. And lots of medium infantry. Now in case your thinking medium infanty.Well medium infantry in my opiniun is Sword and bucklers,Norse swordsmen,Conquisidors (You get them from a level 3 town in America as Spain and Portugal) In my opiniun i think that there better then knights. As they seem to not fight as well in America as in europe. I think its somthing to do with the climate there like in deserts. That medium infantry have less armour and have more stamina and fight better. Of course lots of fractions dont have much medium infantry so its just a handy tip. Now after sorted out your army bring 4 stacks of it. Yes 4 stacks its because no matter how good of player you are an unlucky storm could destry one of your armys haeding there or could revolt after its landed. Or the Aztecs could simply massacre you. Now below i have put some example armys for a few fractions. Though some maybe above or below 20 units there just there to give you a rough idea

SPAIN

1 General
3-4 heavy cav your choice
5-6 sword and bucklers/Chivalric knights
1 basalisk
2 pavisse crossbows
4-5 mussketiers
Any non filled spaces are there for you to put in what you like

ENGLAND

1 General
1 culverin
3-4 heavy cav
5-6 Amoured swordsmen/English knights
3-4 Arqubussiers
2-3 Retinue longbows
Spare spaces

FRANCE

1 General
1 baserlisk
3-4 heavy cav
3-6 Feudal knights/Noble knights
3 arqubussiers
2-4 Scots gaurd/Aventuriar
Spare spaces

Also take lots of preists and merchants preist will make holding on to teritory there much eaisier and merchents can make you heats of cash from the plentiful supply of Chocolate,Gold and Tobacco. I recomend 4-5 priests and merchants for each army.

Meet the natives

It should take you beetween 6-8 turns to get there depending on wheather you have been there before. And you can only land on the mainland land at the top. As brazil is just under Lisbon. In the bottem coner.When you get there (I advise landing at the Carrabien first with a single army) You should first take the Carrabien and occupy it. Leave some native mercs there to keep order and build a church,roads,port,farm,grain exchange and some milita buildings there.As you upgrade the settelment.
Then travel down to Mexico and get all your stacks together and prepere for some extensive fighting. The reason why its so hard to gain a foothold there is because the Natives have an endless supply of stacks to send at you. There for what i do is use 1 stack to seige the nerest city and use the others to clear the way and hold of the stacks. Unfortunatly the Aztecs are no pushovers and perfer to fight to the death therefore try to the generals first. Then hammer and anil strike them in the rear though it can be hard to this as there are some meany trees. So try to get fights in open plains and use night attacks to fight only 1 or 2 stacks at a time. Also check your mens morale as the Jaguar and eagle warriors backed up by those insainly anying cyote priests can course your army to rout seconds after its initional charge. So target these units with your gunners and any other ranged weponns. But use the cannons on the Aztec general. As assasinating him with a cannon at the very start should be a game winner. So when ever you take land build in this order churches/mosques roads and mines.

So that concludes my guide thanks for reading and if you have any expiruences/stories of your invassion of the new world or any advice feel fee to post it/them below.

**Sar1n** · October 31, 2013, 07:07 AM

Pikes and cavalry do wonders on natives. Aztecs use almost exclusively club armed infantry, they can swarm your troops if you let them get close....but you don't have to. That's where pikes come in. Cavalry charges can break them easily and they have no way to counter them as long as you don't engage in prolonged melee.

**Maklodes** · October 31, 2013, 09:41 AM

No missile cavalry? It's not an option for England or Scotland, but for the others, some horse archers/mounted crossbowmen/camel gunners should be able to take down lots of Americans without taking a single casualty.

**Lurtz700** · October 31, 2013, 10:29 AM

Yes deffinatly know understand what you mean. And yes i have used reiters to great affect there. But it can be hard to use them in the dense forests you fight in as you cant rearly see much.

**Dracula** · December 20, 2013, 04:18 PM

The settlements with wooden pallisades look not native and stupid. Need to be replaced all with stone walled cause they have more authenthic look. And the more advanced the settlement is, the more meso-american it looks. So I intend to mod the campaign and to make battles last much longer; and to be more soldiers per unit. I know how to do it, but I need some hands to do some work instead of me. Volunteers ?