Portuguese Empire, 1542. The Kongo just recently fell, and the Mesoamericans about 20 years before that. It took three separate wars from about 1510 to 1530 to finally conquer the whole of Mexico. First went the Aztecs, then I reduced the Zapotec to a rump state, then I completed the conquest not too long ago with the fall of the Mayas.
The Kongo gave me a bit more trouble. The 3K men I sent down to Luanda were wiped out, so I raised a second army 2x strong and crushed those Africans. They fight harder than the Native Americans. Right now I'm trying to colonise the West African coast, and the move further down South America, so as to keep the European powers bottled up in the Atlantic. I'm planning to start moving into the Indian ocean in the next few years.
The Kongo gave me a bit more trouble. The 3K men I sent down to Luanda were wiped out, so I raised a second army 2x strong and crushed those Africans. They fight harder than the Native Americans. Right now I'm trying to colonise the West African coast, and the move further down South America, so as to keep the European powers bottled up in the Atlantic. I'm planning to start moving into the Indian ocean in the next few years.
