What about the French?

[Gan Ning]

the french?
What is there strongist unit?
Do they even have a good unit(exp. tectanic knights, english longbowmen ect.)
Or are they just there to fill some space?

And one more thing, when your general dies in battle does the morale of all your troops go down. should i keep a unit there to protect him? or 2? 3? Or should i send him into the heat of battle? And what about your damiyo? Should he fight or watch? Even if hey has heirs, should i risk him? http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/confused.gif

[Vanya]

Imagine you go to the BEST restaurant in Paris. You order in middle-Ohio English. You horribly butcher their delicate words while ordering. And when you get the food, you ask the waiter for some ketchup so you can smack it all over the "masterpiece" before you.

What you will experience after this is EXACTLY what you can expect to be the best French unit in the game. Warrior chefs. Plain and simple. Customer by customer, they will beat their cultural "superiority" into the barbarian minds of those that smell worse than they...

http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif

[ShadesWolf]

Well it has taken them 60 years to fight back against Facism

What can u expect.

They have some good units, The Norman Knight- This will be a great unit - however, it will be an english unit - What a shame.

[Hirosito]

really a very great shame http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[Gan Ning]

they arn't fery strong are they? and french food stinks!!!!!

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

This thread is going nowhere....I will wait a bit before closing, maybe it will come back on topic.

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Ils sont grands seulement parce que nous sommes à genoux. Alors levons-nous debout!!!

[Vanya]

A path unused grows a blanket of weeds.

[Gan Ning]

the english lowgbow is better then any wepon they could have!

[the Count of Flanders]

They had the best knights in Europe (their generals just used them poorly) and also had the best artillery in Europe by the beginning of the 15th century.
The French cannons proved to be too good for any English longbow: that's why the French won!

[This message has been edited by the Count of Flanders (edited 05-02-2002).]

[Whitey]

I believe it was more of a question of a mixture of the ineptitude of the English cmmanders in the later battles and numbers finally beginning to tell...

But its true, cannon turned France from a country too weak to control her own nobility (Brittany, Burgandy) into the country she is now within 50 years - I am expecting some groovy cannon to be a French specail unit.

As for the Knights - sure thing, roll on the French knights, but man for man, they had no real edge over any other countries knights, there were just more of them.

[the Count of Flanders]

Quote Originally posted by Whitey:
As for the Knights - sure thing, roll on the French knights, but man for man, they had no real edge over any other countries knights, there were just more of them.[/QUOTE]

I think you're wrong here: due to decentralisation of the feudalist system wealth of cities went straight to the feudal lords (instead of to the king's treasury). Combine this with the fact that there were a lot more big cities in France than in any other western european country and they were also more prosperous. So the average French knight was richer and therefore better equiped than any other nation's knights. There are also a lot of accounts of French knights mocking the german and spanish knights because of their poor equipment.
I think French knights should either be cheaper to recruit or get an armor/weapons bonus (both would probably be unbalancing).

[Hirosito]

the french always mock evryone for everyting. if it's not french they have field day. if it is french they say they was robbed

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.