FRENCH Civilization Guide (Units, Techs, Build Order) for Age of Empires 4

In this quick faction guide, we discuss the French Civilization for Age of Empires 4 across all of their unique units (Royal Knights and Arbalest) as well as their unique technology, tech tree, buildings, navy, and landmarks!
0:00 Intro & Summary
2:14 French Faction Overview
7:29 French Unit Choices
13:35 Unique Technologies
18:43 French Landmarks
23:09 Naval Units
25:43 French Army Composition
28:58 French Build Order
31:38 Conclusion
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[@italianspartacus]

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[@VigilanteMike]

What's the most defensive faction in AoE4? I know Mongols are the most aggressive I was just curious because I like to turtle up

[@skyesthelimit6792]

Been English the whole time so far. Needed a summary on French. This vid is perfect as an intro. tyvm Kay.

[@Coach_Blu]

YESSSSSS was really excited for you to post another one of these! Thanks!

[@Zeddy-zq1lc]

These are my go to guides when I start a new Civ. Only started playing and have played English so far, now learning French. I plan to do each Civ mastery tasks and use your vids to get me started with each one. Keep up the great work.

[@DM-ox4jq]

Awesome video. Well explained and easy to follow. Great job!

[@cannedsandwich8156]

This is such a well rounded guide. I barely started today but understanding this faction really gave me taste to improves myself at game and give long term goals. Gj!

[@mikimbley]

Keep em coming, these are perfect

[@chrismousoula885]

Thanks for taking the time to explain in depth and in a way that is easy to understand for noobs like myself. So far loving AOE!

[@aa18ish]

This was truly amazing and well put video, thanks a ton!!

[@Orixoon]

Brilliant video and format. Really setting a great standard, appreciate it a ton!

[@italianspartacus]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@peterhull4674]

That was a great watch, enjoying playing the french and that was insightful for me thank you

[@italianspartacus]

Glad you enjoyed it brother :)

[@uncledunc]

Been working on mastering the French but I've been stuck on the 1v1 against Hard AI, this video was super helpful, thank you! Now on to attempt #4, now that I have better understanding of the civ.

[@Umimugo]

try using Royal Knights into springvalds

[@zacharycrane7439]

Hard is nuts lol

[@Isack4]

Excellent! Loving the faction guides! I assume they take a while to produce but definitely if you can prioritize these! But also don’t listen to me I’m but a lowly villager and new enjoyer of your content ❤️

[@italianspartacus]

Rus is tomorrow my brother! Then HRE and Abbasids on Wednesday and Thursday

[@Isack4]

@@italianspartacus you legend!! Thank you man :3 these are fantastic breakdowns of each faction and really giving me a sense of which I may end up liking and using for certain situations :) cheers

[@plantman32]

Thank you, great vid!

[@adn17]

An excellent video. I'm thoroughly enjoying it and decided to drop a comment before I forget. Keep it up! :)

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching my brother :)

[@felipesoutomendes4689]

Very good and informative video, I have been playing French a bunch but there was so much a didnt know

[@italianspartacus]

So glad it helped! :)

[@NatashaCherie]

Thank you for this video!

[@MemoryDealer]

Extremely helpful! Thanks for these guide videos

[@italianspartacus]

Absolutely man! :) Glad you enjoy em!

[@Kevin.Boyle007]

AWESOME! Well done and very much appreciated! Liked and Subscribed.

[@italianspartacus]

Thanks so much for watching dude!

[@yukowl]

Keep em coming!

[@Chimpy_Mc_Gibbon]

Coming from starcraft 2 it's quite funny to see that the micro intensive race requires occasional pull back micro. Seems like France is almost like protoss in it's economy and unit cost.

[@SwitchandClickOfficial]

Such a helpful video for a beginner

[@italianspartacus]

Glad you enjoyed it!! Let me know if you get stuck with anything, you keyboard wizard!!!

[@Tyler-vg5hb]

Dope video man

[@Tiempir]

Awesome vid!

[@naima9696]

Remember royal bloodlines is a replacement for biology in the university (which gives 20% or 30% more hp to cavalry) So you cant just get like 50%+ more hp

[@MetallicaRoberto]

amazing video, thanks man, great content

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you brother!

[@neyaralbator1834]

Une excellente vidéo ! Love your guide!😃

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you brother!! :)

[@SM-yg2mo]

GREAT TUTORIAL

[@stevenrussell8820]

Brilliant very helpful thanks

[@havefun37g36]

Thank you !

[@jeffreygionet5827]

Great video. Ty.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you for watching!!

[@quangvunhat8193]

11:58 should the royal cannon have 240 damage? consider they deal 20% more damage than the cannon, 220 damage is 10% increase, not 20.

[@Deathelement53]

Best faction!

[@Intangible360]

Thanks for the video. I did notice a discrepancy, 20 additional damage on 200 is a 10% increase not 20% from upgrading to royal artillery.

[@italianspartacus]

Hmm that must be a bug then! Or maybe it's 10% of each? The siege damage and the special damage?? I should look into this!

[@TakedownO44]

@@italianspartacus French bonuses in general are bugged to shit right now. The tool tips are just not accurate at all. Including the influence bonuses.

[@ChenAnPin]

I don't really mind the Masteries, since these are kind of a way to test and experiment with each faction and how they work. It is unfortunate that these have to be done one at a time, but there's also no rush to do these asap anyways like a time-limited Battle Pass. As a tip for most of the faction Test of Strength (especially level IV against the Hardest AI) my go to map has been Mountain Pass, since usually you get a nice chokepoint in the middle to build a wall, towers, and keeps at and keep the AI from harassing you while you build up. The exception to this is of course the Mongols, which I've not reached yet, since they can't build walls. Also, have the map be fully revealed that way you can see the enemy AI and keep track of how far they've progressed and respond to any iminent attacks. High starting resources may be tempting, but this works both ways and I've seen the AI immediately build a Wonder right away (you could too of course) to progress sooner.

[@bradrio2826]

Thank you so much for your guides. I have a question: In one game I played the enemy held an island which contained a sacred site. he simply sat there with like 20 canons and I couldn't land anything, my ships were obliterated even trying to support a beach head.... is there ANY way to deal with that? Are canons OP and need nerf in your opinion?

[@wildmangeorgesrcchannel6916]

need a video on micromanaging many different troop types at once. im stuck with just lumping them all up and driving around the "horde"

[@danielbalder]

When the downside of the civ is they have to use faster producing discounted extremely strong units with their stronger economy, things might need a bit of adjustment.

[@rednab2001]

There is no doubt that there will need to be several balance patches to get everything just right....if that's even possible. The original StarCraft had the best game balance of any RTS every made. It is a lot easier to balance three factions. Balancing eight is quite a chore. I have been playing for about a week now, and I think they have done a pretty good job overall, for as new as the game is. Each civ has an advantage depending on what age your at....some in Feudal, some in Castle, some in Imperial. The more civilizations a game has, the more homogenous the factions have to be in order to keep balance, and diversity of play styles. I definitely think that both artillery and ships need a balance pass, as there is no balance on water maps. The true genius of StarCraft was that there was always a counter to what your opponent was doing. There was no single unit that was overpowered. The most expensive units in the game could be taken down by cheap units, if you had the right ones built. There is nothing worse than end game units that really have no counter, and you just roll the map with.

[@coldfuzz7721]

Great vid! I'm still unsure on the decision of the first landmark to me having traders bringing back 30% more resources is crucial especially late game even on a land map, I tend to rely heavily on traders. Also to build stable units faster you could just make a 2nd stable ?

[@BailableBody]

Chamber of commerce is op. Leave it running on gold and claim it near the end of the game. Usually get anywhere from 20k to 50k gold from it to use to buy any resources you’ll need from then on

[@jayyrod1]

Do you stream italian spartacus?this video came at the perfect time im bout to stream some french today. Ill search for you om the twitch and youtube. Later bud amd great video!!

[@italianspartacus]

Yes!! I stream on YT brother! :) hit me up on discord

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

Do you write a specific script for these or do you put down notes about points you want to make? Either way you did a great job!

[@italianspartacus]

I'll script the intro, just to make sure I lay out specific points properly, but the rest is all off the top of my head for the most part!

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

@@italianspartacus that’s what I thought, you do very well in this kind of system :)

[@maheshbhatia8033]

what is you have to say about military malley damage test or text i dont know how to chose that option while playing to increase the health of cavalry

[@justinlowry8075]

Thanks for all these guides man. I notice that you often send sheep to the mill, not the TC after a period of time. Is there any specific reason you do this?

[@italianspartacus]

Just my OCD of keeping the sheep by my villagers that are hunting animals :) most just stay by the TC! and happy to help brother

[@alexfromsolitude]

HON HON HON! Great guide!

[@italianspartacus]

Hahahaha thanks man

[@michaelszydlowski6787]

This some good shit

[@gragalakaisel1477]

does crossbowman shields also work on like watchtowers? Also about guild hall. if you're collecting for example 160 food every 20 seconds. you switched to another resources. then switch back to food. will it reset to 20 again?

[@danieldanieletto7734]

Hey you should do up dated videos for all the civs

[@infernothelastelemental514]

The French immediately became my main faction

[@zhaoqijie]

the guild hall in my french campaign functions in a different way, it produce the crossbows 50% faster and cheaper, anyone know why? was there a patch update?

[@arthanor9631]

I'm curious about the landmark. Normally, I'd try to figure out how valuable a bonus is. Looking at the school of calvary, assuming it is kinda expensive, building an extra stable does more for maybe a similar price (until you have 6 stables, which you might never have). Especially if you are resource limited at the beginning, training knights faster might just mean that your building is idle more often? Conversely, getting better 30% better merchants means that after the 4th one, you are better off than having one more merchant. My memory of AoE is that you eventually need to rely on merchants for gold as everything has been mined out, so it might be a better long term investment?

[@ncgzeal]

School of cavalry is more for early rush and map domination. I think the market is always better in a team fight.

[@thoalis4325]

So how to counter French? Rush them down early enough before their economy booms? Try your best with spearmen and crossbows? Also Vive la French!

[@dmitriyk.2890]

Judging by how people often do it, the latter. Crossbows and gunpowder shread them pretty efectively.

[@italianspartacus]

Spearmen and crossbows! Building walls too because it slows the Knights down, also funnels them into a kill box

[@dotwill]

I always build walls when I see my opponent is going cavalry. Even palisades are effective in funneling calvary early to mid game.

[@carl.zooooo]

Extremly good content. When are comming some new civs?

[@italianspartacus]

HRE and Abbasids are up next :)

[@carl.zooooo]

@@italianspartacus when ?

[@italianspartacus]

End of the week!

[@sirbobdesign]

Question: I Play CO-OP, and the French Tech score is an issue. When playing CO-OP You look at score when the team wins. My Tech Score is 2-3 TIMES the next player. It leaps the total score. I don't have to fight and I win every time. Q: Why is my tech research score 113% 134 research count?

[@danielbalder]

Balancing the civs is going to be a long road- french and rus are in an entirely different ballpark than weak civs like the HRE.

[@jordan23829]

👏

[@user-rj8tr6sp7e]

i swear the first time i downloaded the game i picked the french, i just felt they were op with their knights, it's known in all games french have the best cavalry known as Cavalier 😎

[@kevinviet5217]

Skip to 2:18 the video starts there

[@borisrin3775]

The number of times you say "Devastating" in this video is just... Devastating =)

[@RogueSabre]

Comment for the algorithm

[@mikeva3975]

"Devastating."

[@stephensimard5468]

DEVISTATING

[@scelonferdi]

Why exactly is the Galeass a french ship? Isn't that thing originally Venecian? Should they ever bring the italians, that would be weird!

[@fentoyal]

I think it's just the Trade Ship that can get 20% more gold. Not traders.

[@italianspartacus]

Doh you're right I'm sorry man, didn't mean to spread misinformation

[@dika_170]

From chamber of commerce?

[@DNSfeatchamper]

If 10 is 10% of 100, how much is 20 of 200? :D What did my friend Lowko always say? Never do math on stream? :D Edit: something is off... In the College of Artillery it says 20% more damage even. But when you showed the unit at the start, it had 220 instead of 200, which is 10%. I am confused.

[@okkomp]

DEVESTATING

[@timetin]

Pikemen be flirting with Joan of arc eh

[@adamcochrane9358]

oi.... leave or crumpets and tea alone

[@iphail4733]

I resent calling British cuisine terrible. If you're ever in the UK, hit me up and I'll change your mind 😉

[@austenhartwell3945]

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[@MyriadColorsCM]

I gotta be honest, i didn´t liek playing the French very much, as powerful as they are, their mechanics are a bit uninteresting and everything is too expensive, I prefer the simpler pleasures of pastures and gers as the Mongols

[@Meomi37]

You explain the build order way to fast for a new player. No way to understand that. You need text to make it easier to understand as it's just a 2x speed video playing where you are playing. I just got back to AOE but way to difficult to understand your stuff.

[@gobravo123]

Shit game.

[@SirGacnb]

ugh French

[@tibsky1396]

Ugh Salome

[@greedyyawgoo5635]

the graphics is mobile games graphics… i dont like it

[@thegreatpiginthesky3904]

Let me guess....AO2 looks better?

[@-sleepy-]

@@thegreatpiginthesky3904 The sad part is AOE3 does

[@pietermilh5342]

compared to total war/bannerlord/ect... these graphics look stupid... it reminds me of warcraft 3 frozen throne .. even age of mythologie looked way better than this...

[@user-ee7el6yc9t]

Thank you for this video!