The campaign is notable for deviating from recorded history perhaps even more than any other, to the point of attributing key episodes of the Spanish conquest to the Aztecs.Neither Montezuma nor Cuauhtemoc appear physically in the campaign, though there is a Cuauhtemoc unit in the Scenario Editor (since The Forgotten).This is the only campaign that takes place in the North American continent (only featured besides in the scenarios Vinlandsaga and Dos Pilas).The Montezuma campaign map in the Definitive Edition.ĭespite its name, the campaign's narrator and arguable real protagonist is Cuauhtemoc, Montezuma's eventual successor as the (last) emperor of the Aztecs. The player plays as the Aztecs and the player color is green. The Montezuma campaign consists of 6 scenarios. Can a vast empire of warriors using obsidian spears and cotton armor hold off mounted invaders armed with metal armor and gunpowder? But when strangers appear on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs, is unsure whether they are conquerors…or gods. 1466 – June 29, 1520), the 9th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the 6th Huey Tlatoani or Emperor of the Aztec Empire at the time of the Spanish arrival.Īfter centuries of conquest, the Aztecs now rule the mightiest empire in Central America. It is named after Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin or Montezuma II (c.
Montezuma is the Aztec campaign in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors that focuses on the three city-states that ruled the Valley of Mexico, the Aztec Empire (also know as Triple Alliance or, in classical Nahuatl, Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān) from 1428 until the combined forces of the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies under Hernán Cortés defeated them in 1521.