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For example, Russia in 1492 was the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which occupied only what is now European Russia and was in no way a great power or able to colonize the Americas, outside of Alaska in the 1700s.

Freecol adds Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and Russia.

In reality, this model really only makes sense for the English the Spanish wanted to plunder and convert the natives, the French and Dutch wanted to expand industry and trade.

On top of this, you attract new colonists to your colony by employing people as preachers, whose religious message generates holy points (crosses), and every N crosses attracts a new colonist.

Avowedly Protestant Dutch and largely Protestant (and certainly Anti-Jesuit) English Empires sending Jesuit missionaries to convert natives? Jesuit order itself was not founded until 1540.

Moreover, the Portuguese Empire is a non-entity in both the original game and the remake, despite being of the first colonial empires kickstarted the Age of Discover and founded Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, as well as outlasting all other playable colonial empires.

At that time, the closest thing to an independent Dutch state was the mass of principalities known as the Burgundian Inheritance, whose nominal ruler (the Holy Roman Emperor-elect's grandson) was only 14.

All four colonial empires begin the game in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World.

It is also subject to Mook Chivalry: No matter how big the Royal fleet, only six units (the carrying capacity of one Man-o-War) will land in the New World each turn, allowing you to defeat them piecemeal.

The REF will also stupidly place their units in terrain that gives your attacking units huge "ambush" bonuses, such as hills and mountains. They will simply land right next to one of your least-defended colonies and attack it directly, ignoring any of your units outside the colony until they have captured it.

The Royal Expeditionary Force isn't very smart in the original game, and attacks in a very predictable pattern.

Alternate History: In the Americas map, European nations are randomly assigned starting positions on the Atlantic Ocean, meaning that for instance the Spanish could colonize what is now New England, whereas the Dutch could battle the Inca and Aztec empires.Adventurous Irish Violins: Featured in a number of tracks from the original release, which includes renditions of traditional tunes such as the Fisher's Hornpipe.Adam Smith's own appearance in the game, however, averts this he enables you to build very useful factories in the original or increase your production rates in the remake.Furthermore, the price you get for selling goods is always lower than the price you pay for buying them. Key manufactured goods do get more expensive over time, but this is probably the game's not-so-subtle way to force you to develop your own economy.This game presents examples of the following tropes: In 2008 a remake named Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization came out.There's also an open-source Fan Remake of the game, called FreeCol (you can switch between "Classic" and "FreeCol" rules). Another important feature is that the player can get "founding fathers" like Washington, Cortez or Simon Bolivar, who give unique benefits to your country. To get a productive empire, you need to have a combination of all these specialists. You have lumberjacks, elder statesmen, fishermen, blacksmiths, indentured servants, gunsmiths and tons and tons of other types.

However, the main difference with the Civilization games is that your population consists of different specialists. In many regards it resembles its spiritual predecessor, Civilization, as you build cities, grow your population, wage war with other factions and in general guide your faction towards an end goal, in this case independence from the mother land. In Colonization you colonize the New World as either England, Spain, France or the Netherlands. Sid Meier's Colonization is a Turn-Based Strategy game from 1994.