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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7734263" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>From Spain, the easy route across the Atlantic leads you to the Caribbean. England and others looked for more-northerly routes to the westward because they did not want the explorers to run into a well-armed and escorted Spanish treasure fleet before they could find anything, or bring news back home.</p><p>It still makes good sense to try to plant a colony on an island off the coast of the mainland - that is in essence what Spain did by accident (not yet knowing the mainland was there). Raleigh's colony off the coast of the future North Carolina (Roanoke?) was a reasonable 'first step'.</p><p></p><p>If the Cortez-led invasion fails, the Spaniards still have a bunch of island bases and a fleet; the Aztecs do not have a fleet to move any invading army. Trying to drop 'paratroops' via dragons ... see Crete, 1941. The Spanish had been working politics in Italy and with the Grenada Muslims, so they could full well discover and exploit the Aztec Empire's inherent problems. The campaign would not be nearly such a thunderbolt as IRL but is not an impossible task (see also the US-Mexican War of 1848).</p><p></p><p>This would make lousy game-playing: do the European diseases come along too? (Who wants to roll 'does he catch it? does it spread?' for thousands of villages?) After a few pandemics thin down the AmerInd ruling classes and army, renewed European invasions would have an easier time.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the Europeans and AmerInds will figure out that there are rival groups of each other in the area. The Aztecs might ally (loosely) with England and France against Spain, encouraging the pirates / buccaneers and providing a safe port plus supplies. (You can imagine Montezuma hiring Drake to transport a boatload of gold to the rebellious Netherlands, just because it bothers the Spanish and gives them something else to do.) The Europeans would encourage the various tribes and nations to fight each other and pick sides.</p><p></p><p>I can see a Spanish Empire in the Americas that consists of the Caribbean islands, Central America, Venezuelan coast, and Argentina; with independent Aztecs and Inca in between.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7734263, member: 6803337"] From Spain, the easy route across the Atlantic leads you to the Caribbean. England and others looked for more-northerly routes to the westward because they did not want the explorers to run into a well-armed and escorted Spanish treasure fleet before they could find anything, or bring news back home. It still makes good sense to try to plant a colony on an island off the coast of the mainland - that is in essence what Spain did by accident (not yet knowing the mainland was there). Raleigh's colony off the coast of the future North Carolina (Roanoke?) was a reasonable 'first step'. If the Cortez-led invasion fails, the Spaniards still have a bunch of island bases and a fleet; the Aztecs do not have a fleet to move any invading army. Trying to drop 'paratroops' via dragons ... see Crete, 1941. The Spanish had been working politics in Italy and with the Grenada Muslims, so they could full well discover and exploit the Aztec Empire's inherent problems. The campaign would not be nearly such a thunderbolt as IRL but is not an impossible task (see also the US-Mexican War of 1848). This would make lousy game-playing: do the European diseases come along too? (Who wants to roll 'does he catch it? does it spread?' for thousands of villages?) After a few pandemics thin down the AmerInd ruling classes and army, renewed European invasions would have an easier time. Eventually the Europeans and AmerInds will figure out that there are rival groups of each other in the area. The Aztecs might ally (loosely) with England and France against Spain, encouraging the pirates / buccaneers and providing a safe port plus supplies. (You can imagine Montezuma hiring Drake to transport a boatload of gold to the rebellious Netherlands, just because it bothers the Spanish and gives them something else to do.) The Europeans would encourage the various tribes and nations to fight each other and pick sides. I can see a Spanish Empire in the Americas that consists of the Caribbean islands, Central America, Venezuelan coast, and Argentina; with independent Aztecs and Inca in between. [/QUOTE]
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