User blog comment:Mr.Xeight/A New Map Game/@comment-811633-20100610040457

If I had to make a decision, I would choose France, simply because it seems that they'll be colonizing the Americas and Beyond(!), but if you don't mind not having American, African, and Southeast Asian colonies, the Mongols might be interesting, you could carry them to even farther than Russia in the west and Korea in the East.

As for the Native Americans, they have no immunities to our good ol' fashioned European plagues; they'll die really fast, I would suggest not playing them.