Advice on native uprisings?

[Benjamin_Bellamarca]

I'm in my first playthrough, and I am very confused how I am supposed to respond to native uprisings. How do I redeploy troops from my European holdings to the colonial area? Trying to hold the natives off with some local conscripts isn't quite cutting it...

[Cayden Black]

If they've taken the land, you need to set up a naval invasion,

Make sure you have enough spare convoys and the admiral assigned has an equal number of ships to battalions being sent, or you'll suffer major debuffs.

If these colonial holdings are just that, colonies, then uprisings happen often near the end of a colonisation mission. So, after victory, you should hold all local state territory.

[Benjamin_Bellamarca]

Thank you- so how do I assign ships to admirals? And is there a way to transfer troops to the front with the natives before they take over?

[Kayeka]

When the uprising is still just a diplomatic play, a Front should have been formed between your colony and the tribe's lands. You can then just mobilise a general and assign them to that front as you would in any other war, and by the time the actual war breaks out they should already be there.

Admirals work in pretty much the same manner as generals. A headquarters has a certain amount of flotillas available depending on the size of naval bases you've build there, which are divided over any admirals assigned to said headquarters, depending on their rank. If you want a given admiral to command more of the available flotillas, then you either promote him or retire any other admirals.