Post by CotF | Amhaye™ on Aug 29, 2012 16:40:59 GMT 1
The aim of this strat is to get an early military advantage while setting up your eco to spam musks and hussars as necessary to counter your opponent.
Discovery:
Do your usual vil micro, with french i like to split up all my vils on food so i can queue my first cdb by 6 seconds. If you have 2 starting wood crates your job is easy. go early hunting dogs, put up a house, and age up with the wood poli. With 1 starting wood crate you have to decide if you want to go early market or not based on your opponent and the map. I tend to go early market because hunting dogs pays off incredibly fast. Also you can consider putting up a market first and trading in gold at for 100 wood if you had starting gold crates but this isnt my favorite move with french. Send 3 cdb as your first card. Age with 14 vils.
Colonial:
While aging get the discovery gold upgrade then distribute your vils between food and gold for your musk/huss start. My vil distribution varies from game to game but i tend to put somewhere in the range of 5 vils on gold and the rest on food. Upon aging, immediately send 700 wood. Usually by then you'll have a shipment in queue, good treasure gathering helps greatly as always. with your 400 wood put up a barracks and a stable asap. Queue 1 of each. Don't forget your vil production should ALWAYS stay constant after you age to colonial. Also you need to make sure you have vils close to your tc because you need to pick up the 700 wood RIGHT when it comes out to get houses up. If done properly you should be able to complete both batches of muskets and hussars for an early military advantage. Your eco will also be set up to keep spamming musks and huss. After this I send the 4 cdb card so as to not put off your eco too much for the military advantage. Now you're on your own. You can crate spam, send upgrade cards, the 8 xbow shipment helps a lot with this build.
Depending on the map and on the opponent I like to put Pioneers into my deck and get the vil hp and attack upgrades to fight with my vils if i get pushed back. As french you need to use your vils to fight, as it is a HUGE civ bonus. Also try to get steel traps pretty soon after you pop out your first batch or two.
Civs this strat works well against: France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Portuguese, Aztec
Civs this strat works alright against: Dutch, Iroquois, Japan, India
Civs this strat works badly against: Sioux, China, Russia, Ottoman
Remember, it is very easy to age with this strat or to put up another barracks and double rax, single stable spam. You can't always win by just going musk huss the whole game. Good luck and have fun!
Discovery:
Do your usual vil micro, with french i like to split up all my vils on food so i can queue my first cdb by 6 seconds. If you have 2 starting wood crates your job is easy. go early hunting dogs, put up a house, and age up with the wood poli. With 1 starting wood crate you have to decide if you want to go early market or not based on your opponent and the map. I tend to go early market because hunting dogs pays off incredibly fast. Also you can consider putting up a market first and trading in gold at for 100 wood if you had starting gold crates but this isnt my favorite move with french. Send 3 cdb as your first card. Age with 14 vils.
Colonial:
While aging get the discovery gold upgrade then distribute your vils between food and gold for your musk/huss start. My vil distribution varies from game to game but i tend to put somewhere in the range of 5 vils on gold and the rest on food. Upon aging, immediately send 700 wood. Usually by then you'll have a shipment in queue, good treasure gathering helps greatly as always. with your 400 wood put up a barracks and a stable asap. Queue 1 of each. Don't forget your vil production should ALWAYS stay constant after you age to colonial. Also you need to make sure you have vils close to your tc because you need to pick up the 700 wood RIGHT when it comes out to get houses up. If done properly you should be able to complete both batches of muskets and hussars for an early military advantage. Your eco will also be set up to keep spamming musks and huss. After this I send the 4 cdb card so as to not put off your eco too much for the military advantage. Now you're on your own. You can crate spam, send upgrade cards, the 8 xbow shipment helps a lot with this build.
Depending on the map and on the opponent I like to put Pioneers into my deck and get the vil hp and attack upgrades to fight with my vils if i get pushed back. As french you need to use your vils to fight, as it is a HUGE civ bonus. Also try to get steel traps pretty soon after you pop out your first batch or two.
Civs this strat works well against: France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Portuguese, Aztec
Civs this strat works alright against: Dutch, Iroquois, Japan, India
Civs this strat works badly against: Sioux, China, Russia, Ottoman
Remember, it is very easy to age with this strat or to put up another barracks and double rax, single stable spam. You can't always win by just going musk huss the whole game. Good luck and have fun!