Just saw this from a meme of all places.
At some point in the 16th century, Tlaxcalan warriors, Spanish rodeleros, Chinese Pirates and Japanese Ronin fought each other at the Filipines for trading routes.
ABSOLUTE CROSSOVER!
That’s something I’d like to see in the historical battle levels.
INFO: (In spanish)
############################################################### ¿Tlaxcaltecas vs Samuráis en Filipinas? No es broma, así fue la poco conocida Batalla de Cagayán - Gluc.mx
Ah yes, the Cagayan battles in 1582. Really interesting stuff!
For English readers:
Very interesting stuff Sir
Nice work!
The average multiplayer match, but in real life
Check out also the Spanish expedition to Borneo, South-East Asian muslim states supported by the Ottoman Empire (including soldiers from India and East Africa) vs the Spanish (which also included soldiers from Mexico and South East Asia)
Some happened in real life but most didn’t…like Incas fight Ethiopians on Scandinavia…
This would be really cool if it happened.
Unfortunately, it didn’t.
To elaborate, Cayagan was a pirate outpost at the farthest north of the Philippines that the Spanish decided was a thorn on their side for their colonial endeavours, so what they did was send local militias to deal with the problem and these were the “battles”.
They weren’t glorious battles between the unbeatable Tercios of Spain vs the Honourable Samurai of Japan, there weren’t any Daimyos involved, it was mostly Wokou Pirates (you know, like the treasure guardians) plus the odd outlaw from China, the Philippines themselves, etc.
They were conflicts between local filipino militias + the odd spanish officer against, well, pirates. Of course no native americans were involved here.
Storeyed Plate brought up the Castilian war, and that’s where most of the misconceptions about this conflict come from. The Castilian war was an actual honest to goodness war, as the Spanish were trying to play crusader in Southeast Asia, so they came in conflict with the Sultanate of Brunei which, in turn, asked and got help from the Ottoman Empire, seeing as the war was escalating, the Spanish did request reinforcements from the Americas, namely, this is where Tlaxcalan (Inca too) soldiers were brought to the Philippines and eventually Brunei to aid in the war effort. But this is a completely different situation and no japanese were involved (except for the odd mercenary that very well might have been involved, there was a window of time between Tokugawa unifying Japan and the start of the Country in Chains where there were Japanese mercenaries all over Southeast Asi.)
This is a great opportunity to get a historical battle where perhaps finally being able to be on the side of the spanish.