Aztec Invasion

Has anyone launched a successful invasion of Europe with the Aztecs? I'm making my own attempt, but it's slow going. I'm fighting in Africa, Spain and Britain simultaneously - Britain had the most armies thrown at it and fell first, Spain only has a couple but is ok at about halfway conquered, and Africa is having trouble. I took the Sub-Saharan provinces without incident but the Moorish cavalry is a pain, especially with just the one army I've sent there so far. I may have to send a Spanish army as backup soon.

The lack of any sort of cavalry, spies, diplomats, boats etc. is really hurting. I've gotten a few boats as mercenaries but no cavalry has shown up yet...too early, I guess. Britain was lucky enough to have a couple cities with the right size of wall to recruit soldiers but there's a lot of armies up there, and without horses to chase down routers decisive victories are hard to come by.

So, anyone else have experiences to share? Ideally I want to take over the whole map, but the thought of taking on the steppe factions is terrifying. Even with insane Aztec scary infantry, it might be too much.

What did you need to do to the game to be able to play as the Aztecs? Is it a simple change or a mod that you downloaded?

Mod I downloaded. It's on the forums here somewhere, just search "aztec mod" or something like that and it'll come up. Essentially all it does is make the Aztecs playable from 1080 and give you three caravels hirable as mercenaries right off the bat, so you can sail across the ocean blue and put some Mesoamerican whoopin' on whitey.

EDIT: Here it is: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/archi...p/t-72291.html

Playing the aztecs rules, cause they rule in meele!!!

But they have no cavalry, so some numbers of missile cavalry can ruin your day :wall: