Talk:Conquistador (Age of Empires II)/@comment-27726014-20180523082130/@comment-27810937-20180802130212

The devs at that time want to introduce Meso-American civs. And to make the new American civ has interesting & familiar campaign, they introduce gunpowder-based Spanish as their main opponent. In fact, when the game is still in progress, the devs actually plan to put the spear-throwing Genitour as Spanish UU, but then decide to replace it with Conquistador.