Dear fellow War Chiefs,

Recently I started playing this campaign after a long time of nog playing any Total War game. Back then I only played the Aztecs and Spain as far as I can remember so this was quite a challenge. While playing I overcame most difficulties that arise while playing with the Apache tribes. After defeating the French and dealing with the Chichimeca tribes (quite similar to the Apache faction), I started to built my assault against the Tlaxcalans Tribes. When I launched my attack, invading multiple lands with 2 stacks, I soon found out that the Tarascans had even more! Not familiar with more then an opponent able to bring 10+ stacks to the battlefield I fell back after some huge losses and minor wins. However, with replenishing my armies (so xp remains) and building even extra ones, I slowly fought my way back on the west side of Northern America. On the east side I quickly massacred New Spain which had also 10 stacks, although those were quite easy to deal with using enormous missle forces. By turn 80 I finally got myself to the point where I encountered the Aztecs and Taxaclans. Around turn 95 the Tarascans where whipe from the map (destroyed) and I declared war to the Aztecs and Taxaclans. This proved to be an even harder challange. The Aztecs, seemingly only using missle units, lucky where also fighting the Mayans and so where the Taxaclans. At turn 104 I won the Campaign (by far the fastest in turns) but my purpose was Total War and Total Domination! So I decided to continue playing and conquer all regions. At that point the Aztecs as well as the Taxaclans where getting sandwiched by my forces and the Mayans. Around turn 120 the Aztecs were destroyed, leaving the Taxaclans as solo faction for functioning as buffer between the Apache Tribes (me) and Mayans.

At turn 130, thinking I was ready, finally declared war to the last remaining faction The Mayans (after the England faction leader (with no settlement) tragically died by a Mayans' assassin). And so the nightmare begon!! Constantly streaming full stack armies to the frontline I hardly managed to hold the lines. Over 50+ stack total where spotted by my scouts and probably more on their way.

Lets skip to turn 175. After hours and hours of gameplay I managed to conquer 4 regions after sometimes switching hands up to 12 times. It's almost looked like a weird version of Stalingrad, fight for every centimeter. Even though I got these 4 regions (I still had around 30 to go) The Mayans had multiple advantages:
1. They had, as far as I could tell, infinite money, meaning
-------- a. No succesfull bribes for my diplomats
-------- b. Endless recruiting and replenishing
2. Their melee units are highly superior, especially in the auto-resolve
3. They seem only to make melee units (heavy infantery)

Luckely I had:
1. Mounted Thunder Braves
2. Also endless money
3. War Path

My disadvantages:
1. After capturing a settlement you need to build all from scratch
2. Weak units (low armour)
3. Very long reinforments time.
The mayans can move 3 regions in 1 turn while I had to wait 2-7 turns for units to move across a single region. This was the hardest of them all. Especially compared with number 1.



I'm currently at turn 185 and lost 1 region. Every turn takes soooo long lol.

QUESTION: Does anyone has any tips that are usefull against the Mayans (from Apache point of view).