Aztecs

[Just A Girl]

we get CA people hovering about.
They reply at times to posts.
So yeah i guess they stick around and see what the endusers would most like.

I still dont think the aztecs will be a seperate campaign.
They usualy bring in New time periods with expantions.

although having said that the origional MTW did have a few diferent campaigns. depending on which period of the middle ages it was,

but added a nother with VI.

STW. just seemed to have Sengoku jidai period,
And then had MI as an expantion.

It seesm to me that if the astecs arent included in the main strat map.
that they could technicaly be classed as an expantion within its own rights.

Personaly i see thae game as historically acurate to a point,

for instance In real life the welsh didnt take over all of britain and send the english packing.
But in the game i can make it happen.

So just becous Astecs wernt discoverd in real life untill a certain period To me that dosent mean We should be resticted to only finding them at that specific time,

After all. By then the spanish could be dead,
So they wouldnt be there to historicaly re inact the discovery.
So why would it need to be so acurate? When the rest of the game lets you chnage history.

Way i see it Id like to play as the aztecs.
but not do the same mistakes they did, so there for i can take over the world.

Just like using the welsh in VI,
They never actualy did the things i made them do,
But thats how the game works.

If the game was to be 100% historically accurate, There would be no point playing.
Youd just start up the game.

and watch the english take over. Thats what really happend.

I hope you see what i mean.

[Nelson]

The Aztecs are surprising. If they are done the right way they could be fun without being too wildly inaccurate. This would require severe limitations upon the number of European troops available to send to the new world. If we have to recreate the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro with hardly more men than they had it could be a lot of fun to try. The 1530s end date also makes the slate cleaning effect of disease a non-factor in an Americas campaign. It could work something like this: You spend time and money to buy an event that lets you send an expedition to America. A Crusade sort of, but with a very small force. When you arrive in Mexico (if you arrive), you encounter the Aztecs and either make them allies somehow or you attempt to take Tenoctitlan by force with your tiny army in an effort to steal all the gold. Make friends and you gain regular trade income. Plunder the place and you earn enough money to crush your enemies for decades. Fail and whole thing is a bust.

I hope CA resists the temptation to make the Aztec soldiers into more than they were. Numbers were the only thing these people had going for them. It might have been enough. It should never be possible for the Americans to win a pitched battle against a large European army. On the other hand, that’s a moot point since it should not be possible to get a large army to America at all in the early 16th century.