The Triple Alliance

The Triple Alliance is the second scenario on Montezuma Campaign in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors.

In this scenario the player starts with 4 Eagle Warriors that must deliver the summons of war to their Mayan and Aztec allies, Tlacopan (yellow) and Texcoco (purple). Afterwards, The player receive some villagers, and the task of destroying the four enemy Town Centers belonging to the Tlaxcalans (red). Then the allies will become enemies, and the player must defeat them to win.

If the player bring 10 Jaguar Warriors to the hidden monastery (In the middle of the map guarded by some Tlaxcalan gates, walls, towers and a jaguar and Son of Ornlu), the player will be rewarded with the monastery and the blessing of the rain god (the Jaguar Warriors will all get +400 Hit Points).

At the end enemy Spanish arrive (blue, led by Cortez) and declare that they will not return to Spain without all the Aztec Gold. To prove it, they sink all their transport ships.

Note: It is not necessary that the player bring only 10 Jaguar Warriors to the hidden monastery; he or she can bring as many as they want, and all of them will get +400 HP.

Enemy

 * Tlaxcala (Aztecs) is based at the western part of the map, plus gates, houses and Towers around the Gaia monastery in the southern-central part of the map. Besides their ground units, they would also build a navy of war galleys. Once all their four town centers are destroyed, they would commit suicide and defeat themselves, leaving behind only houses, lumber camps, mining camps, mills and blacksmiths. Therefore they will not have any market for you to trade with.

Allies to enemies

 * Texcoco (Mayans) is at the northeast of the map, producing many Plumed Archers.


 * Tlacopan (Aztecs) is at the southwest of the map, just outside the Gaia monastery mentioned above.

Neutral

 * Cortéz (Spanish) plays virtually no role in this scenario, having only a lone hunting wolf at the eastern tip of the map. Once all the enemies are defeated, Cortéz's navy will spawn on the sea at the northern part of the map, and the Aztecs mistook him as their god Quetzalcoatl. Then the player and Cortéz are jointly declared as winners (despite not being allies).

Trivia

 * The transport ship, which carries your villagers from Tenochtitlan, initially belongs to Tlaxcala, until you have visited both of your allies, then the ownership of the ship is switched to yours.
 * Despite having Texcoco depicted as Mayans, they were actually not. All members of the Triple Alliance were Nahua city states ("altepetl") speaking Nahuatl, also known as "Aztec language".
 * While Cortéz announced that he was claiming the land "in the name of Ferdinand of Spain, it actually happened during the reign of Charles I of Spain.