How do you have a successful Inca Restoration?

title says it most, but how can you have the inca resistance in Vilcabamba successfully retake Cuzco and push out the Spanish?

Or as the title suggests, how can you have a successful Tupac Amaru rebellion or something like that calling for the restoration of the Inca?
 
Have the incas instead of revolting with Tupac Amaru waiting until when the wars of independece were going on and revolt then. Maybe you can have one then
 
First meeting between Inkas and Spanish goes differently or off by a week, Spaniards die and Inkas *might* survive. It could also be possible to have a recalcitrant Inka state into the late 1500s or 1600s. Although there would still be some influence from the West, modern Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador (along with surrounding territories) might be Inka to this day under that scenario.
 
First meeting between Inkas and Spanish goes differently or off by a week, Spaniards die and Inkas *might* survive. It could also be possible to have a recalcitrant Inka state into the late 1500s or 1600s. Although there would still be some influence from the West, modern Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador (along with surrounding territories) might be Inka to this day under that scenario.

Agreed. Their meeting with the Spanish went about as badly as humanly possible for the Inca, so badly in fact that if it hadn't actually happened it would be considered ASB. Had one or two things gone differently we'd likely have seen a much longer lasting Inca state. Even if they later fall to Spanish occupation if the idea of an Incan state or some of it's political institutions can be kept alive until the 1700s you have a good chance that the revolutions don't result in Peru, Bolivia, etc but in a revived Inca state.
 
Hmmm...If the puppet Inca Manco reads up (or rather, has read to him) his military history a little more while in captivity under the Spaniards, and recognizes that his armies cannot directly face the Spanish cavalry as is. He therefore orders General Quizo to prevent the Spanish from crossing the Andes to Cuzco instead of attacking them at Lima. This butterflies General Quizo's disastrous defeat, and lets him stay in the Andes where he can drop rocks on the heads of any Spaniards attempting to go inland.

Then, the Spaniards besieged in Cuzco lose. Perhaps more attempts to burn Cuzco succeed, and they die, or they escape and make their way to Lima. Either way, the Inca have seized Cuzco, and from there can reassert control over their empire in a big way. However, they will have to completely overhaul their way of waging war (throwing overwhelming numbers of infantry at heavy cavalry isn't going to work) and cede a lot of territory, particularly the coastal plains, some of the more accessible mountain valleys, and rebellious provinces such as those of the Canari to the Spanish.
 
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Local dissidents way lay every conquests for they meet on the road. Eventually local numbers drag down the conquest adore superior one-on- one fighting skills. IOW a hundred obsidian axes drag down one Toledo sword.
 
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