Ok - so has anyone had any success playing the New BNW France in an aggressive manner? I mean by this aiming for a cultural victory by building wonders in Paris and then playing aggressively with Musketeers to capture cities and city spots to build chateaux's on.
Most guides I've seen have suggested playing the new France as peaceful, using your musketeers as defensive units - but they seem wasted to me in this way. I've always enjoyed warmongering as France and am wondering if anyone has been successful culturally with them.
Seems to me you'd have to focus Paris early on growth and production so it can pump out Sistine Chapel/Broadway etc later in the game and use your other cities to build Musketeers to capture AI cities with lots of luxuries round them - then build loads of workers and put chateaux's on them so later in the game you'll get tourism from hotels and airports.
What do you think?
Are France now best played peacefully or can you still be aggressive with them and focus on a tourism culture win?
Most guides I've seen have suggested playing the new France as peaceful, using your musketeers as defensive units - but they seem wasted to me in this way. I've always enjoyed warmongering as France and am wondering if anyone has been successful culturally with them.
Seems to me you'd have to focus Paris early on growth and production so it can pump out Sistine Chapel/Broadway etc later in the game and use your other cities to build Musketeers to capture AI cities with lots of luxuries round them - then build loads of workers and put chateaux's on them so later in the game you'll get tourism from hotels and airports.
What do you think?
Are France now best played peacefully or can you still be aggressive with them and focus on a tourism culture win?