Black Family Estate

The Black Family Estate is a civilization that can only be played in campaigns and in custom scenarios. In the campaign, the 2 main heroes are Nathaniel Black and ChaytonBlack. Other heroes include George Washington, Sheriff Billy Holme and Crazy Horse.

Campaign storyline
This civilization is played in fire and shadow and as Nathaniel black it starts off as a native civilization as it is part of the iroquois confedercy. In the war hut, you can train tomohawks and forest prowlers and the architecture is iroquios. Nathaniel Black and your native villagers speak Iroquois when you tell them what to do. This is in the first and second sonarios when the oneida/black family esate is fighting the mohawk and seneca and then the mohawk and hessians under Colonel Kuechler.

However, when Nathaniel and some other iroquios join the militia, your villagers and nathaniel say your commands in English and the architecture becomes like the british/ United states architecture. The black family estate becomes a europian civilization but your war hut stays iroquios. In the war hut, you can train tomohawks and colonial militia, the latter replacing forest prowlers. Tomohawks still say there comands in Iroquios and kanya horsemen (Iroquois unit) do the same. Your villagers look europian though.

Moving on, Nathaniel Black meats General Washington and they fight the British at loads of battles including Morristown and Yorktown. At Morristown Nathaniel kills Colonel Quechler and kills a lot of Hessians and at Yorktown, Washington and Nathaniel defeat the british with the french help and the British finaly surrender.

Now onto Chayton black who is a Nathaniels half Lakota grandson and son of Amelia Black who is Nathaniel's Daughter and owns the Falcon Company (which built and ran the railroad to the west coast) Chayton is called to add some new stations to the black hills where he meets Billy Holme and they build stations on the bozeman trail while they fight the sioux. (In this part of the campaign, the black family estate is europian except for they build war huts and not outposts but they train musketeers and skirmishers.) Anyway, Chayton fights the sioux and then they make a truce with red cloud and Chayton becomes head of the falcon company. Several years later, Chayton is called back when they discover gold and fighting starts again. Chayton fights the sioux again and then talks with Crazy Horse. He says that Holme and his miners broke the truce and then Holme and his miners attack the sioux settlement. Chayton still fights the sioux for a bit longer until Holme askes him to attack a Sioux village and Chayton refuses and fights Holme and joins the sioux. Chayton meets Custer and askes him to wait one day while he fetches for Holme to tell Custer the truth. Holme tries to kill Chayton but Chayton wins by shotting him and making him fall down a mine shaft. Chayton continues to fight against the wicked americans and together with Crazy horse and his troops of warriors and also the Cheyenne, they defeat the Americans at Little Big Horn and General Custer is killed.

The black family estate adopts Sioux architecture when he changes sides to fight for the Souix.

Trainable Units
This varies from scenario to scenario and when you are the oneida, you can train Kanya horsemen from Corrals, tomohawks and forest prowlers from war huts.

When you become militia/ General Washington's army, you can train hussars and dragoons from corrals and tomohawks and colonial militia from war huts. When you fight against the sioux, you can train hussars and dragoons from corrals and musketeers and skirmishers from a war hut. When you join the sioux, you can train any sioux military.