You wall off the flanks. Make sure that the knights won't come into your base. And then at the same time, you're going to use the fortified outposts just to kind of creep forward and slowly converge on your enemy. If it wasn't for the walls, the French player would just bypass all of these static defenses and just hit the eco. But with the walls up, really the only thing that he can do is kind of go in the direction of that fortified outpost.

Nine out of 10 times horsemen spearman beats knight and archer. And when you have Torguud support, it's even more one-sided in a way.

Don't go Kharash early against French; a French knight will just open up and kill all of them.

Golden Horde cannot go pure Torguud against French knights because knights will heal and Torguud will not.