I like to boom with the french. Booming is probably the best stra IMHO for the french because thier villies gather faster. A lot of people want to turtle with them because thier villies are strong, and that I think is THE reason you dont want to turtle, you want to boom. You can sacrafic a large army for a few soldiers plus your villies, if someone tries to rush you, they wont do to well at killing off a lot of villies if your any good at managing them.
I can usually boom striaght to industrial and leave them in late colonial early fortress.(of course my army is left to only 30-40 men, buts it well worth it) Then I mass up curaisurs(thier Unique cav.) and skirms, and then go to kill the enemy. Booming is very useful for massing thier highly desired cavalry into a force to be really reconed with.
Thier villies cost 120 food, meaning you dont want to age up with the usual 17-20, more like 14-17, because remeber, they gather faster than normal villies.
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