French Aggressive Colonial Build

Overview

How to play France aggresively in the colonial age (The Asian Dynasties)

Build Order

This build order is a variation of the classic Samwise colonial build. I have changed it to fit the current TP(trading post) meta. This is a good strategy that will win games if performed well. This build order will give you a good start, with a decent economy.

Discovery Age

• When the game starts send 2 villagers to your starting crates, the rest to hunts.
• Start queuing your first villager. And keep them training all the time !
• Send your native explorer on a scouting mission using shift+right click function.
• If 300 wood start, build a tradepost with your explorer, and build a house.
• If 200 wood start build a tradepost then put 3-4 vilagers on wood until you get 100 wood to build a house, then build the house. Then all villagers to food.
• If 100 wood start build a house, you will chop wood for a tradepost in transition to colonial.
• Send your explorer out treasure hunting in discovery , food and wood treasure is the priority.
• Send 3 villagers as your first shipment.
• Once you reach 14 villagers you should have 800 food, age up with the quartermaster(400 wood) at 3.00 mins.

Transition to colonial

• If you had a 300 or 200 wood start and already have a trading post , gather enough wood to build a market, and enough resources to research hunting dogs(50w 50c) steel traps(125w 125c) and placer mines(75f 75w).
• If you have a 100 wood start, then all of the above plus 200 wood for a tradepost. For this you would want most of your villagers on wood in transition except for 2-3 villagers who are herding.

Colonial

• When you age up, you will have a shipment ready send 700 wood.
• And send 2 villagers to the 400 wood crates, 6 to food 6 to gold.
• With 400 wood from aging build a barracks and a stable. Then queue 1 musketeer and 1 hussar.
• Immediately collect the 700 wood when it arrives and build houses with it. You should be able to build the houses and queue 4 more of each units before they end.
• This gives you 5 musketeers and 5 hussar at 6 minutes.
• Keep training musketeer and hussar and use them to raid your ooponent, never let him be comfortable, keep them off their resources and idle their villagers.
• Whilst your keeping up the pressure keep your economy booming behind this.
• The third shipment is 4 villagers. After you can then send 3 hussar, 8 crossbow, 600 wood , 700 coin, Hand calvalry attack. This is not a fixed order, it all depends on the situation each game and what you need at that time.
• From here you should keep massing hussar and musketeer and destroy your opponent. If they are doing well to resist your attacks you may want to go to fortress age and switch to dragoons and skirmishers.Also a french adding some veteran curassiers are great, they are the best cavalry in the game (excluding mamelukes lol )