Iroquois
Both the for and against arguments are good. From a purist standpoint, I'm inclined to think that if you have the Iroquois, then you should have the Huron, the Alqonquin, the Mississippi mound cultures, etc. Particularly the Huron and the Alqonquin. EU doesn't have a mechanism for handling local populace, which might be the ideal way of handling situations like this (and pretty much all other colonzied places on the globe).
If they are eliminated, the provinces they occupy (and a few more, too) should be made very unfriendly to colonists (high number of aggressive locals, and low, low, low attrition level).
If they are to be kept, it would be nice to expand their territory and have them stand in smybolically for local populace, everywhere, but there is that pesky human player getting an easy annexation, problem. I've noticed that the ai "abuses" the ability to colonize the Great Lakes, and in fact seems to prefer it to the coastline in many cases - a greatly expanded Iroquois might counter this.
I prefer elimination if it can be shown to be tougher to both ai and human.
But, USA...
Shawng1 presents a nifty way of presenting problems to colonists in the area via the Iroquois. Perhaps this could be generalized to the Iroquois disliking everyone.
As an aside, my USA suggestion should include Spain and the Netherlands in CB's against England, as they did DoW England, and before France did, I believe.
Both the for and against arguments are good. From a purist standpoint, I'm inclined to think that if you have the Iroquois, then you should have the Huron, the Alqonquin, the Mississippi mound cultures, etc. Particularly the Huron and the Alqonquin. EU doesn't have a mechanism for handling local populace, which might be the ideal way of handling situations like this (and pretty much all other colonzied places on the globe).
If they are eliminated, the provinces they occupy (and a few more, too) should be made very unfriendly to colonists (high number of aggressive locals, and low, low, low attrition level).
If they are to be kept, it would be nice to expand their territory and have them stand in smybolically for local populace, everywhere, but there is that pesky human player getting an easy annexation, problem. I've noticed that the ai "abuses" the ability to colonize the Great Lakes, and in fact seems to prefer it to the coastline in many cases - a greatly expanded Iroquois might counter this.
I prefer elimination if it can be shown to be tougher to both ai and human.
But, USA...
Shawng1 presents a nifty way of presenting problems to colonists in the area via the Iroquois. Perhaps this could be generalized to the Iroquois disliking everyone.
As an aside, my USA suggestion should include Spain and the Netherlands in CB's against England, as they did DoW England, and before France did, I believe.