Thinking of playing Iroquois? Here is a guide showing their rushing abilities, units, cards and more.
The Iroquois have several cards that are essential to their rush.
6 Tomahawks
This card should always be sent when rushing. It is a very good addition to your army. Tomahawks are good against cavalry and light infantry in hand combat. However, they are weak against light infantry if they don't hand attack.
7 Aennas
You could send this instead of 6 Tomahawks, depending on what kind of soldiers makes up most of the enemies army. Aennas are light infantry that need protection from cavalry.
4 Kanya Horsemen
A very good card for raiding or to defend your army from light infantry. Kanya Horsemen are Heavy Cavalry that are good for slicing up settlers or light infantry.
Infantry Hitpoints
Infantry Hitpoints up by 15%, both your Aenna and your Tomahawks are boosted by this.
Infantry Attack
Infantry attack up by 15%, both your Aenna and your Tomahawks are boosted by this.
5 Villagers
When you are training an army, sometimes you do not have enough resources for more villagers. This card should be sent to boost your economy so that you don't have to spend as much resources on villager training.
Town Destroyer
This card makes your War Chief much better at attacking buildings. I mean MUCH better. (+1400% Building attack)
2 Travois
Sending this card means you can build either farms (when your hunts and berries run out) or War Huts/Stables. A very useful card in my opinion. Only send this card after you have sent the unit cards.
Forest Mother
This card is good if you run out of huntables, as it gives you 9 Deer. It will keep your settlers close to your Town Center as they gather too, keeping them safer.
The Market has some good gather rate increasing techs. if you are planning a combination army of Aenna and Tomahawk research the food and wood upgrades.
The Big Button in the Town Center gives you 5 Tomahawks, costing 500 food. This is good if you have a lot more food than wood, and need to balance your unit types (too many Aenna).*
Secret Society is a good tech, found in the Firepit. Costing 200 wood and 100 coin, it gives your War chief the ability to heal. This could come in handy if your Kanya Horsemen are damaged while raiding. You can heal them and then just send them off to kill some more settlers again.
Using a good combo of Heavy Infantry and Light Infantry, in this case Tomahawk and Aenna, you can have an army hard to counter. These 2 unit types should be supported by cavalry, the Kanya Horseman.
The Tomahawk has a good bonus in hand attack against light infantry and cavalry.
The Aenna are like Crossbowmen and should be guarded well from cavalry. Aenna cost no wood, only food. (100 food)
Your War Chief should always go into battle with your rush as he boosts nearby soldiers HP. He should also rescue natives stuck up trees and convert guardians before the attack. (Try and convert the strongest guardians, it's more worth it.)
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[This message has been edited by ImperialLobster (edited 07-15-2009 @ 09:25 AM).]