Aztecs Overpowered

[Daveybaby]

I'm actually fairly disappointed that disease didn't come into play in the new world once you get a bunch of people over there. Apparently the Black Plauge is okay to put in the game, but Europeans diseases against American immune systems is not?

TBH by the time you take the americas in the vanilla campaign then game's usually almost over anyway, so a hit to the population isnt going to be very significant.

However, note that the kingdoms american campaign does include the effects of european epidemics (at least it does according to the manual).

I think the Aztecs were put in as a final challenge, something to work towards and have to fight for rather than another 5 cities to steamroll and add to your empire.

Exactly, people keep forgetting that this is a game, not a historical simulation.

[Rhyfelwyr]

The Aztecs could still be made challenging by weakening their troops stats significantly but giving them much more troops. That would be more fun and more realistic IMO.

[Benandorf]

The Aztecs could still be made challenging by weakening their troops stats significantly but giving them much more troops. That would be more fun and more realistic IMO.

But at that point you get into technical problems. Do really want to be fighting against 5000 aztecs in a single stack on Large? How many people have computers that could play that on huge on anything above minimum? Answer: not a whole lot. It would force you to autoresolve or simply play low numbers.