


Number 3: Bowmen, musketmen, warriors, tribesmen.

Huron-Wyandot warriors look like they belong in the Plains Nations because of their wolf head masks. Plains Nation lancers are equipped with lances that look European when they had their own kinds of lances with feathers on them depending on their battle honors and no european steel tips. The Chief's bodyguard unit contains a war leader who looks just like Disney's Powhatan from Pocohontas and he looks the same for every American Indian Nation. Number 2: The unit skins look extremely bland and stereotypical. I find it silly and innaccurate that you can't do that with American Indian units. In Napoleon's Peninsular Campaign, you're allowed to position Spanish guerrilla units anywhere on the battlefield (except in the enemy's deployment zone). Instead you're forced to perform a European style deployment of a non-European style army. Number 1: Guerilla warfare is impossible to wage because they made it so that no Native American units can hide throughout the map. Though I'm not Native American myself, I have learned many things about them through research, videos where people from American Indian nations talked about their ways of life, etc. They have good charge bonuses, but their other stats are poor, even by lance cavalry standards.Creative Assembly, much to my disgust, got many things wrong with American Indians in Empire Total War. Native American Lancers are the only lance cavalry available to most Native American factions. The materials used to make a lance would depend on the areas a tribe inhabited, but the “business end” was made from flint, a material far sharper than many more “civilized” materials. The traditional lance used for hunting was found to be far too long for use in warfare, and a much shorter version was developed.

Often decorated with items to commemorate courageous acts performed by a warrior, eagle feathers traditionally mark a particularly ferocious man. Perhaps their most deadly weapon from horseback is the lance. Able to wield any number of weapons on horseback, they are formidable foes. The horsemanship of many Native Americans is unparalleled. These mounted men carry long lances capable of causing significant damage to enemy. Native American Lancers are a type of lancer cavalry in Empire: Total War.
