French

## Music theme

> "*Villagers gather resources 20% faster. All Barracks and Stable units, and the Marine have National Guard upgrades.*"
> ― In-game description
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## Overview

The **French** are a European civilization, one of the original playable civilizations from *Age of Empires III*. In *Wars of Liberty*, the French Empire, with colonial possessions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, forms a multicultural society. Napoleon Bonaparte and his Grande Armée had already brought warfare to a whole new dimension and now, with the slogan “Three colours, one flag, one empire”, the veteran and elite troops of the French army parade to war, ready to overcome any difficulty.
## Features

* Their gatherers are Sans-Culottes, which are stronger and gather much faster
* All the Barracks and Stable units have access to Royal Guard upgrades
* Starts with a permanent Hot Air Balloon
* National Guards: see French National Guards

### Unique Units

* Sans-Culottes: Strong Villager who gathers faster, has higher ranged resistance and more hitpoints.
* Chasseur a Cheval: Mounted shock-skirmish unit good against line and maneuver units at range.
* Zouave: Foot assault unit good against infantry at range. Only available through Home City Shipments. **Algiers Zouaves** shipment allows them to be trained from Forts.

## Gallery

The French Home City.French Explorer and Royal Guard Line InfantryFrench Royal Guard and Zouave showcase
## Changelog

* Fixed a bug that caused the French national guard Grenadiers not to change textures.

Patch 1.0.15e
* Pied Noirs are now Sans-culottes.
* Removed Skirmishers and added Chasseurs a Cheval.
* Added Grenadiers to the Barracks.
* Zouaves are now available at the Home City.
* New Royal Decree effects. Now called Belle Époque.
* Gribeauval System renamed to Système de Bange.
* Couple of new cards were added.
* Removed Cheap Church.
* Foreign Legionnaires have been moved to the Tavern and have been given Mercenary status.
* Updated the National Guards.

Patch 1.0.15
* Now start with a free Hot Air Balloon and can retrain their starting Hot Air Balloon from the Town Center. Hot Air Balloon build limit increases by +1 in Age 3 and +1 in Age 5.

Patch 1.0.14
* The following cards have been changed:
	+ TEAM Early skirmishers now affects Chetniks
	+ Thoroughbreds effect now increases all Cavalry speed by 10% and has lost the other effects.
	+ 9 Foreign Legionnaires has been removed.
	+ 12 Foreign Legionnaires is now 20 Foreign Legionnaires.
	+ Esprit de Corps card has been added to the National Age, it enables all teammates’s TEAM cards to ship 3 Foreign Legions to the French player.
* Pied Noir’s cost increased to 120 Food from 100 Food.
* The Cuirassier has received the following changes:
	+ Now receives veteran upgrade through shadow techs.
	+ Hitpoints reduced to 450 from 500.
	+ Hand attack reduced to 28 from 30.
	+ Building attack reduced to 28 from 30.
* The Foreign Legion has received the following changes:
	+ Cost increased to 45 Food and 45 Coin from 40 Food and 30 Coin.
	+ Build limit reduced to 20 from 30.
	+ Training time increased to 32 from 30.
	+ Grognard’s cost decreased to 800 Coin from 1000 Coin.

Patch 1.0.13c
* Thoroughbreds card now decreases Trainpoints of Cuirassiers by 5%, down from 15%.
* Foreign Legions now have a Train Limit of 30.
* Foreign Legions get a base Hitpoints of 125, up from 115.
* Foreign legions get a base ranged attack of 30 and a base melee attack of 20 when outside of the Town Center area.
* Fixed a bug that gave negative damage to French units on recorded games.
* Fixed a bug that gave 20% more Hitpoints to French buildings.
* Long-ranged Infantry Hit Points no longer affect Foreign Legions.

Patch 1.0.13
* Foreign Legion has been slightly reworked and its aura now works right.
* Pied Noirs now pray at a higher speed (0.65/s).

Patch 1.0.11
* Foreign Legion stat rebalanced
* The French card "TEAM Early Skirmishers" now has a new icon.

Patch 1.0.10a
* The bug that prevented the icon of the French Royal Decree improvement “Garde Imperial 3” from showing up has been fixed.

Patch 1.0.10
* The French Royal Decree improvements “Garde imperial 2” and “Garde Imperial 3” no longer mentions that Grognards are getting improved.
* The French Foreign Legion now grants 15 XP upon creation or after being killed (from 10 XP).

Patch 1.0.9d
* The French "Garde Imperial" Royal Decree improvements no longer improves the stats of the Grognard.

Patch 1.0.9
* The French now have Grognard cards in their Home City.

Patch 1.0.0
* Civilization added.

## Portals

* Civilizations
* Minor Allies
* Religions