France vs Russia advice please.

[Patrick20872]

One of many games I played vs heroes to practice this matchup. This one I decided to send 8 bows to help defend since he already sent 5coss and 4coss. I send 5 goons because Im still not sure if hes playing colonial or not. All of a sudden he's up and I haven't done much damage. Heroes says I should've sent cannons first but I'm not sure it would've mattered since he can send his own. Perhaps there is another issue that I'm not seeing. Thanks for any advice.

[bittersalt123]

Make muskets in transition to age 3 and then shipping 2 falc will be possible. I think 8 xbow is something to ship if you have some hussar to snare and have a good timing with mm but it's a very situational card.

[iNcog]

There was a post diarouga made recently where he went over some of the possible options in this match up. I'll try to dig it up for you.

Edit:

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19535&p=422392&hil ... ce#p422392

Some good information in that thread.