Very unrealistic. No balancing on mind. Just for fun 
Revolutionary France (or whatever name that sounds better)
Age 4 revolution option for French
- Settlers and cdb turn into “national guards” (cheap re-skinned revolutionaries with higher melee, higher speed but lower hp)
- All military buildings -50% cost.
- Explorer transforms into marshal, which can plant inspiring flags and build forts.
- Napoleonic code automatically researched (penalty removed). Young/Middle/Old Guards enabled at church (if not researched already)
Cards
- Levee en masse: all units now train in batch of 10
- Sans-culottes: national guards can gather trees, mills and estates; enable the training of settlers (85 gold)
- Grand Battery: each existing fort spawn a falconet; new forts also spawn a falconet when built
- Napoleonic Guards: ship grenadiers. Grenadiers are now equipped with muskets & bayonets
- Marshal of the Empire: ship another marshal
- Saint-Cyr Military Academy: imperial unit upgrades enabled
- 3 horse artillery (infinite)
- 2 heavy cannon (infinite)
- 6 Mamelukes (infinite, 1000c)
- Fort wagon (infinite)
- Grenade Launcher (if not sent already)
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No more inspiring flags please. That is by far the dumbest mechanic they’ve come up with and we don’t need more of it.
The rest looks solid though.
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But… it’s the revolutionary France right now…
unless you change the leader of France to Louis XIV
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Leader name does not matter that much…the AI can revolt to US with Queen Elizabeth as the leader.
Great idea! This would add some fun flavor.
The idea of a revolutionary france would be great imo, but i think the problem is that as now france already incorporate stuff from it, still i have hope that old european civ can be expanded and improved
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It’s a good idea, after all it’s strange Napoleon fighting with the flag of the Borbouns.
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I had a similar idea for Japan, with the Meiji Restoration doing more than just aging up to Imperial without a wonder: Replacing the normal Japanese units with Western equivalents retextured to look Japanese, and rebalanced a little to benefit from cards sent previously. Basically what happens when Mexicans revolt to Yucatan and then to Maya.
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Meiji Restoration should change to be another kind of revolution.
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That would be amazing! I had a very similar idea to try to change the French in the original AOE 3, but I didn’t have time to put the idea into practice.
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