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| Nov 9, 2015 at 13:55 | comment | added | Luaan | Note that several invasions (real and imagined) of the New World were brutally repelled before the first successes. The Europeans only really made a break-through when most of the local populace died out due to disease - they literally found thousands of ghost villages, with farms and houses to occupy - and even native survivors who didn't mind helping out anymore. The other exceptions were invariably tied to using the natives against themselves. If anything, Europeans were the masters of asymetric warfare - hopefully, the original shipwreckers will be able and willing to train the natives. | |
| Nov 6, 2015 at 1:18 | comment | added | chucksmash | It seems like moist tropical conditions would limit the effectiveness of firearms while dense vegetation would limit the ability to fire volleys of arrows and to form a line of battle. I'd imagine the fighting would be almost entirely hand to hand... | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 21:30 | history | answered | KeithS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |