It's important to build it straight from the beginning, since it boosts your start more than saving the 100w and using the warrior priest for treasures/scouting.įinally, the above mentioned poor age-up options raise some problems regarding the choice of the best opening and the relative play style to adopt. This building is the core of the civilization and makes the difference between a win and a loss in many cases. In addition to this, Aztecs start with a Warrior Priest and an extra 100w crate to make the firepit. Neither you have any kind of direct eco boom that instead most of the other civs have. The reason for this is that you don't get much from any age up option you have, atleast in terms of resources. This bonus is not casual: Aztecs early development is in fact based on cards more than any other civ (even more than spain). A feature that comes in handy to achieve army balance is having only 1 building for multiple units, so that you can quickly switch the production between them.Īnother important feature is the passive ability of the Warchief to grant extra experience points for every unit killed within his aura. Composing a well balanced army is thus very important with Aztecs, even more than with other civs. For this reason, in most of cases the units should be combined with each other to gain usefulness. But most importantly each of them has a very specific role and can thus be defined an hard counter. In fact almost every unit is quite different from all the other units in the game for range, speed, ROF, bonus, etc. In the second place, Aztecs have an extreme variety of unique units. They can also profitably do some FF based strategies. They can indeed rush with various degree of aggressiveness but they can also play some economic-heavy strategies both on land and water, with or without TPs. I cannot think about a civilization that has more strategy options than Aztecs, except maybe for India. What makes Aztecs so unique is in the first place the wide range of strategies they can perform. This will make easier to comprehend the strengths and weaknesses and therefore what I consider the best way(s) to use the Aztecs. To begin, I'd like to highlight some features about the civilization. The aim of this guide is to provide some strategies and hopefully some comprehensive knowledge to help in mastering the Aztecs. That's mostly because of their uniqueness and complexity when it comes to play them properly. Aztecs are a rather strong but not very used civilization.