I belive that “Plaza” is redundant, since we have already a market, the “Plaza” is pretty much the same :V.
Cuachic and Skull warriors are the same, Cuachic = Shorn one = Skull knight, tought the visual representation is misleading since its depicted as the General.
I agree with @Xiuh7946, this is not related to any pop culture, it was a reality they did war for sacrifices, and as many cultures did different type of rituals. The most prominent obviously and famous was the hearth one.
As I said above here, we have 2 markets in some sense, while we dont have Church or fort. One “big” (temple) could act as both. Also I have to say that would be nice if some type of traditional (ritualistic) dancing was introduced, since some rituals did have some things like that (not like the original “cannibal” style dancing around a fire pit xD).
As for the plaza being redundant, I don’t think that’s true. The central squares for the peoples of the Americas were much more important as places of discussion and decisions, of religious rituals and used for decision-making for coordinated team actions, than what was done in the West at the time, when the government was absolutist . I think that the market does not have the same function, and sometimes these ritual squares were joined or close to the market, sometimes not, it depends a lot on the people. The Incas did not allow markets to be built in their cities (lactas), markets had to be in small strategic villages (ayllus), outside the cities. The Cuachic (those with shaved heads) were warrior priests, they were fast and provocative, they served to give power to the masses, said insults to their enemies and left the common soldier feeling strengthened and protected, because whoever faced and offended the enemy was a priest of the mexica religion, which gave the protection of religion to the soldier and raised his morale. The skull warrior had another name, it was the 'Tzitzimitl" (a skull goddess related to the stars, and if I’m not mistaken, to the winds). So there was a different word for Cuachic and for Skull Warrior. Look, I agree that a temple should be added, and more, the new symbols that replaced the skulls do not resemble symbols of the Mexica religion. They didn’t replace it with a full symmetrically positioned Mexica symbol.
They could leave some skulls, instead of faces, as they were Mexica religious symbols (I believe they were removed because they looked violent and associated Mexicas only with violence, making them less worthy of respect by the current fragile public). Well, they could have replaced it with less violent but true symbols, like the Nahui Ollin, or the bell symbols of the moon goddess, or anything really Mexican other than skulls, with flowers. See the homes of the first Mexica era. The lozenges above the gates aren’t even complete, they’re broken right at the entrance! The Incas were very well treated, but the Mexicas were forgotten in the AOE III DE.
Hmmm, no. Even if translated to Nahuatl they weren’t guerrilleros, “skirmisher” in eng. I meant the example of the insurgente as an example of what the unit could be.
Cheap easily massed but weak, with different weapons and some card upgrades.
Both Aztec barracks are “pyramid temples”…
Most civs have temples don’t know why would natives specially “religious zealots” as they wouldn’t have them. And even more now they added citadel fortress.
I half agree here, I’d like them to have Skull knight as hero like a raja killed in battle respawn after x time. Send as a card max one.
As above it was a general “Tlacochcatl” “the man from the house of darts”, second in command to Emperor (“Huey Tlatoani”) aka a field Marshal.