The moment is now! The war against the Maya-Aztec alliance has begun.
The situation:
Japan:
Land tech: 12
Religion combat advantage: small morale boost
6000 cavalry stationed in Nicaragua, first wave
6000 cavalry stationed in Chorotega, second wave
6000 cavalry stationed in Panama, third wave
6000 cavalry stationed in Choco, fourth wave
6000 cavalry stationed in Antioquia, fifth wave
3000 cavalry and 1000 infantry stay behind in the centre of South America to deal with possible “confused people”
Production capability: Tons of it! We have cash, we have manpower. We have cores on a lot of close provinces. We can easily double if not triple our army size if needed. I have 1111 cash which means I may even operate with a net yearly loss, not that I would need to do that anyway.
Generals: Many conquistadors from our “New world” administration, a general and our emperor. They have all one thing in common: They either bought their degree or they had to work extreme hard to barely pass military school.
Inca:
Land tech: 0
Religion combat advantage: none
A modest number of infantry, we somewhat out number them.
Production capability: They can just like use build troops for as long as they have manpower and money. The big and rich lands of those 2 empires have most likely a lot of manpower and money, but not as much as Japan.
Generals: no idea
Declaring war cost use 2 stability, but that’s a price the emperor is willing to pay for dominance of Middle America!
The mountain Mayas oops! I mean the Swiss, have forced us to use a rolling entrance. This means that not all troops shall reach the battlefield at the same time, instead shall they slowly enter it division by division. For a short time shall only one division, need to deal with all counter attacks. This is a dangerous strategy but our tech advantage allows is to take this risk.
The first battle was the battle of Pipil. The Maya troops didn’t stood a chance against our samurai’s, we crushed their spirit and a ton of their soldiers in no time. This underscored how much Japan had changed since the Inca invasion, we where no longer a small backward nation, we had become a modern empire!
Quickly where the first 2 provinces taken, more and more troops entered Maya lands!
The Maya’s concentrated their troops for a brave counter to retake Petén, but it was all in vain. This only helped us to speed up our victory.
The remaining Maya troops where mercilessly pursued and eliminated. A province after provinces was conquered. It was quite sad to see how this once glorious empire had became nothing more then panicked rabbits!
The Maya allies the Aztecs attempted to help their Maya friends and allies, quite their whole army was send to Tohancapan. The emperor ha became very confident in his trop and decided that no reinforcements where needed, this where after all not just warriors but Japanese warriors!
Japan had become too confident in its own technology, technology helps a lot but it doesn’t make someone invincible! Quickly was a new division send to drive the Aztecs from
The Aztecs where tired from the previous battle, their morale was low and their regiment missed many men. We completely crushed them; the backbone of the Aztec army was broken! Even our emperor admired the loyalty and friendship those Aztecs showed towards their Maya friends, the fallen Aztec soldiers would be given a great funeral worthy of heroes!
While we could annex the Maya’s did the wise emperor decided to wait. The Maya’s where the leaders of the alliance. Making peace with them would also make peace with the Aztecs. Both empires deserved the incredible Joy of being ruled by the Japanese emperor! So we ahd to wait.
In the Aztec capital was the remaining of their force crushed an later hunted down.
The Remaining Aztec forces where crushed, all provinces take. First was the Aztec empire annexed, then the Maya empire. Most of Central America was ours! This also gave us many Atlantic ports, ports that would become very important for our next plan. A plan that would teach those mountain monkeys a lesson! This would require a lot of preparation. But eventually would it lead to biggest naval operation in history…
The invasion of Europe!