Nerfing them patch after patch give me the impression that they have been unstopable these 15y since War Chiefs expansion, so there should be tons of aztec players in the wild, like otto or Japanese ones.
In DE’s first months their buffs were to fix the mess with explorer’s ability lost (and not be able to build stone walls or use BBs at max pop) and focused on treaty (aztec mining that added coin cost on top of the wood one)
So, since their units have been nerfed several times, WP train slower and fertility dance is weaker for villagers, Were they unstoppable for 15y?? How is not the most played one?
its not that aztec was unstoppable but that its always incredibly gimmicky
Aztec was actually top civ in early ESO but thats only for the top players who can micro and macro very well
For everyone else its either death rush, SK FI or the super explorer bug which people just dont want to play against and basically ignored people who played the civ
In the lobby system if people dont want to play against you the civ might as well not be played
I am pretty sure this is not true
edti: Like haud was very OP in TAD and there arent that many players for it
Otto and japan are played more cause they are easier to play imho