Aztec invasion seems broken...

[Ksim3000]

Hi,

Well recently I decided to start up a new campaign in the 769 as an Irish count. Had a fun game, formed the Empire of Eire eventually and things were going well. By the mid 1200s, I felt like having a decent challenge so I waited for the Aztecs to show up as I had left them enabled for a late game challenge. Past 1260, the Aztecs did showed up on the dot. However, they barely did anything.

The Aztecs invaded one province in Iceland and landed in the Breizh province. Then they pretty much did nothing for the entire game aside from take another province in Iceland. They had over 200k troops yet just sat there.

My question is this - how do you make the Aztecs more fun? Is this normal behaviour for them or will they conquer anything more? Thanks.

 

[Dakilla TM]

Honestly it's just randomness. I like running multiple campaigns at once, so I won't get bored of playing just one game, and the Aztec behavior varies wildly. \

In my Tengri Turks game, the Aztecs swallowed France and are fighting it out for Germany, in my Italian game, the Aztecs beat the Umayyads and took over Iberia. On the otherside we have the Aztecs of my Bolghar game, where they took Cornwall and just stood there for years on end. In my ERE game, its the same, take Brittany and sit there.

So in your case, I would say you're unlucky. Or maybe you can keep waiting, who knows what those people are thinking?

 

[Asiak]

I've seen them blob over Ireland, Andalusia, England in both playthroughs and streams.

So there are times where they do work in their designed horde capacity.

Perhaps Iceland should be taken off the Aztec target list despite it being a logical target.

All the other places they seem to land they always seem to keep expanding at the normal holy war every now and then rate.

Even with boats and attrition-less troops maybe the AI simply can't decide where to from Iceland.

 

[Castorem]

Yup - exactly as in my game. Their initial invasion failed because they were invading a rebelling realm, which peaced out before they could've won and after the other invasion in Andalusia they only declared one embargo war in 20 years. It seems they still need some fixing.

 

[Noxatrox]

The funny thing is that they actually increased the aggression of the Aztecs (and the AI in general) in one of the recent patches. These days I see things like France holy warring in Andalusia, Italians invading Muslim North Africa, Hungary taking over Pecheneg, etc.

So yeah, it really just depends on your luck on whether or not the Actec's AI will decide to blob or not. If you have seen some of the recent screenshots where Aztec's control large parts of Western Europe, it's probably due to people playing with the random Aztec settings on. The number of Aztec soldiers don't change based off the year I believe. So when the someone starts in 769 and the Aztecs invade soon after, they very quickly overwhelm the undeveloped European nation.

 

[Redwulf_Storm]

Personally, I blame the Parrot.