AHC: New World entirely, or almost entirely, colonized by a single power

Smells rather wankish. I would argue that the Armada can over-run a lot of england if it gets ashore, but actually holding down and conquering the nation, now thats another story. In the long term, even a best case Spanish success in 1588 stretches their empire even further, and when things do start to go downhill, bad stuff happens.

Well, anything that has one country control all of the Americas is a wank by definition. At the very least, the Armada would need to seriously weaken England enough to keep them from colonizing anything.
 
Oh I might add--they don't have to have all of it at the same time. They just have to colonize it all, and leave their lasting mark on it.

For example, let's say Spain at its height loses Florida to France, and the Rio de la Plata becomes an independent state. Please note this is just an example. As long as Spain manages to conquer, and send settlers to, colonies throughout the rest of the New World, making the entire New World speak Castilian, or if this Spain is an especially tolerant one, Castilian, Basque, and Catalan, and as long as France doesn't manage to Francify Florida completely (maybe leading to a Quebec-like situation) then that would fulfill the challenge.
 
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