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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3901969" data-attributes="member: 9254">Different scenario. The PCs would not actually be toppling the existing power structure as much as stopping a rebellion.&nbsp; The analogy would be Andrew Jackson in the role of &quot;young Lord Elmer&quot; as he tried to claim his own empire. An appropriate historical comparison to toppling Dark Lord Elmer would be if the Europeans had invaded Germany preemptively to stop Hitler and the Nazis.&nbsp; Multiple organizations did try to covertly monitor and halt German crimes.&nbsp; Actually the Spaniards conquered the aztecs thanks to a neighboring state that had been at war with the Aztec for just about ever.&nbsp; The Spanish actually got into a fight with that tribe and, according to some spanish conquistadors, probably would have lost if they hadn't managed to team up against the Aztecs.&nbsp; Oh, and don't forget the joys of european-supplied smallpox, which at the very least decimated the Aztecs during the siege, and possibly wiped out half the population.&nbsp; Technology meant very little.&nbsp; Politics and plague meant much more.&nbsp; But &quot;technology&quot; sounds so much better, kind of like it indicates the Aztecs and other peoples were destined to fall to the Spanish.&nbsp; Had the mezoamerican states banded together they could have held off the spanish indefinitely, given the relative length of the supply chains.&nbsp; Logistics wins more wars than technology and the Aztecs had logistics down pat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3901969, member: 9254"] Different scenario. The PCs would not actually be toppling the existing power structure as much as stopping a rebellion. The analogy would be Andrew Jackson in the role of "young Lord Elmer" as he tried to claim his own empire. An appropriate historical comparison to toppling Dark Lord Elmer would be if the Europeans had invaded Germany preemptively to stop Hitler and the Nazis. Multiple organizations did try to covertly monitor and halt German crimes. Actually the Spaniards conquered the aztecs thanks to a neighboring state that had been at war with the Aztec for just about ever. The Spanish actually got into a fight with that tribe and, according to some spanish conquistadors, probably would have lost if they hadn't managed to team up against the Aztecs. Oh, and don't forget the joys of european-supplied smallpox, which at the very least decimated the Aztecs during the siege, and possibly wiped out half the population. Technology meant very little. Politics and plague meant much more. But "technology" sounds so much better, kind of like it indicates the Aztecs and other peoples were destined to fall to the Spanish. Had the mezoamerican states banded together they could have held off the spanish indefinitely, given the relative length of the supply chains. Logistics wins more wars than technology and the Aztecs had logistics down pat. [/QUOTE]

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