How to beat
Englishas French
Matchup tips
That's a lot of time spent not producing a knight during a point of the game where it matters very much to keep the School of Cavalry pumping knights nonstop.
If the game keeps going very passively, French will keep building a villager lead, but English will keep building cheap farms. Eventually, French will need a castle timing or a decisive engagement; otherwise, the food economy will become out of control for English.
Now French getting those upgrades for so much cheaper, so they don't mind that extra investment. They need to make sure that those longbow numbers do not get into a position where they can actually handle the knights and the scouts.
This is the benefit of going against English with your French knights: the English mass is a very slow mass.
Make sure you're able to kill the Berkshire before the Berkshire kills the bombards. If it's fully garrisoned, bombards don't last too long.
There is the White Tower, there is Berkshire Palace, there is an English TC. So, French will have to dive past a lot of that if they want to find eco damage without losing a ton of knights.
Even against English's machine gun Town Center, French knights can still dive outside resources to cause pressure.
French sometimes try to make it about water because they can get their first boat out quicker than most civs because it's cheaper (they save 35 food). The problem is the English save more, because they get a 10% discount as well. So you can open a boat but the intent isn't to play water – it's to distract so you can get Knights on to land.
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