The aztecs are great once you get a good knowledge and feel for them. their main advantage IMO is both their power at sea as well as their warrior priests. The warrior priests can dance at the fire pit and once you have reached the max of 10 warrior priests, they are the firepit equal of 20 villagers. So while other indians have to use villagers to dance rather than have those vills gathering resources, the aztecs can just put the 10 warrior priests on and will have the strength of a 99 villager economy. At sea, they simply dominate with the sea combat dance that can be sent with a card, as well as 3 different types of canoes that can be dramatically lessened in cost by th cheap canoes card. The key to the Aztec IMO is just to really be able to manage your overall game well, and making the right units is key. For example, you really shouldnt use arrow knights as your first choice for anti-artillery unless you plan on getting something else out of them, when your jaguar knights can just stealth next to the artillery and kill its just as easy, for a little more cost but half the pop. Dont forget to change dances at the firepit because the dances allow the aztec, just like most of the other indians, to get the upper hand. Also, remembering to use your stealth ability as well as establishing a strong deck of cards is very important. If you want to look at some top notch aztec players, then go here: http://agesanctuary.com/index.php?portal=TWC&fview=7&act=aoe3_rec_game&cmd=04&civ= Aztec&version=TWC%201.03&fview=8
At this site you can look through other peoples recorded games and try to pick up their strategies and what they do in any given situation. To watch the games, find the "download this file" link at the top of the page, when the pop up comes asking you to save to disk or open, click save to disk and save it into your savegame folder under Age of Empires, which should be in "my games." Then you open up AOEIII and go to recorded games and you should find the game you just downloaded. This is a great way to pick up other peoples strategies because they essentially outline the game for you in the description so you can learn whatever you want.
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