Aztec seem very strong in Foretress, and through the power of a WP driven gift dance and gold mining, might be able to slip to industrial.
My 1v1 play with Aztec, I have trouble living to Fortress against fast civs, but in team games, I have been doing this to good effect-
After clicking age-up to fortress, get about 60% of your peons on gold for the 1000g+ship cards. Switch your 10WP pit to Gift, and build units to fill. Maybe you even sent the 3 TP travois card, and have a few TPs on XP.
For a few minutes, you can live off your shipments almost alone. The 10 AK card lets you dictate where the fight will be, which seems to make my units last longer. Pen him in, and look at your resources... I have been surprised a few times now, how much gold I end up with mining like crazy. Buy my way to 4.
This is where it gets fun. Add 15 peons to the pit. You want 2000g for the 11 SK+upgrade, and set the pit to make SKs (7.9s/ea). Hit all the big buttons, after you pop cap with SK, and roll over anything in your way. Hit 288/200 last night. Try to send the 11SK card when at 199 pop... they get ridiculous strong in 4, with the upgrade. Lots of fun.
Oh, and don't forget to switch that mega-pit to attack and heal as required. No sense in letting many of them die afterall.
[This message has been edited by AOE_loraque (edited 11-11-2006 @ 07:13 PM).]