When you are playing dutch defensively and you've got 10 vills on gold, 7 on wood, and 5 on berries next to your TC plus three banks, ruyters + cannon is an amazing combo. Dutch can basically exist with ALMOST no food at all for the first 5 minutes of fortress.
If given the choice between dragoons and ruyters, no dutch player would pick dragoons, at least not early on. Early on, ruyters with their high gold cost and super low food cost are a godsend to a turtling dutch player.
Rushing With France
the french ar general an bad civ. bcause they know what the enemy can do!
as an french u must luck that u have more crossbows then pikes. pikes ar only for buildings or cav. the deck should have in 3 hussars. thats the way to winning! a nother good card is 700 wood and 700 food. have fun by capture the enemy -Loessli[This message has been edited by Simia (edited 08-07-2009 @ 01:29 PM).]