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Brits definitly:

Rushes

• Really fast time to get 18 settlers by building manors before you age up to colonial at about 5:30 mins
  
• Once at colonial, really fast time to get 10 redcoats and get more settlers from manors
• Raid enemy base before they have time for an army, kill as many settlers as you can
  
• Train 20 more muskets and build some trade posts before aging to III at about 10:00 with 28 settlers
• Once at III upgrade musketeers and attack with 30 of them, and have 10 at base just in case
• You should have won by now, but if not, train some more muskets and hussars and go to IV at 16:00 with about 38 settlers
• Upgrade muskets to redcoats, buy three falconets and 10 more muskets then attack with your hussars, 30 redcoats and falconets, you should win

Treaties

•  IMO the best place for
  
• Get 18 settlers by building manors before you age up to colonial at about 6:00 mins
• Have about 1/3 more on food than wood and coin
• By age three have the ratio of settlers on food, wood and coin at 3:1:2
• should have about 20000 food, 10000 coin and 8000 wood by age V
• upgrade mukets, falconets, mortars and hussars
• after the treaty spam loads of muskets (About 100) and attack the enemy. They won't win but they'll do loads of damage to the enemy army with minimal effect on your eco (Musketeers are really cheap when you have that many resources)
• Keep spamming untill they're army is pretty mush destroyed, you don't have to keep attacking their city though.
• Bring back the surviving musks, train untill you have about 50, train about 20 hussars and as many falconets as possible, and a mortar or two if you have pop
  
• Attack the enemy city with that. Their army won't have recovered enough to fight you off, so wipe out what has been retrained with falconets while using musks as meatshield.
  
• Use musks and hussars to kill settlers (They're both really good at this)
• Use falconets to kill buildings, bring mortars up too if you have pop
• you should win like this. If not, go back to the musk spamming step and keep repeating from there
  

Spanish (no doubt)

Definitely Portugal.

Los Caçadores OWN infantry.... until some nasty patch ruines everything...

Von Richardsen:

Definitely Portugal.

Los Caçadores OWN infantry.... until some nasty patch ruines everything...

Do you know what you're talking about? The patch boosted cassadores, didn't make them worse. They now have more more hitpoints, it took 1/3 off their attack, but they shoot 1/3 faster so there's no real attack difference and they're still the best skirms in the game. 

This taken me a time though, but I counted EVERY vote here...:

Spanish- 9.4 votes (ninth place)

British- 19.41 votes (first place)

French- 16.58 votes (second place)

Portuguese- 10.08 votes (eight place)

Dutch- 14.83 votes (third place)

Russians- 13.58 votes (fourth place)

Germans- 11 votes (seventh place)

Ottomans- 9.08 votes (tenth place)

Aztecs- 13.41 votes (sixth place)

Iroquois- 2.5 votes (twelfth place)

Sioux- 13.415 votes (fifth place)

China- 2.66 votes (eleventh place)

Japan- 0.5 votes (penultimate place)

India- 0 votes (last place lol)

I will update this as soon as possible.

Also those who voted for more than 1 civ, their votes got divided, example, somoene voted for french and british, i give 0.50 more to british and 0.50 more to french instead of 1.00 more to british and 1.00 more to french. 

Also there are almost no votes for asians because this thread was done more than a year ago before TAD was released... 

P.S. I vote for russia, pretty easy to guess by my name and avatar... 

Though I really like british and Indians 

Phoenixwi:

Brits definitly:

Rushes

• Really fast time to get 18 settlers by building manors before you age up to colonial at about 5:30 mins
  
• Once at colonial, really fast time to get 10 redcoats and get more settlers from manors
• Raid enemy base before they have time for an army, kill as many settlers as you can
  
• Train 20 more muskets and build some trade posts before aging to III at about 10:00 with 28 settlers
• Once at III upgrade musketeers and attack with 30 of them, and have 10 at base just in case
• You should have won by now, but if not, train some more muskets and hussars and go to IV at 16:00 with about 38 settlers
• Upgrade muskets to redcoats, buy three falconets and 10 more muskets then attack with your hussars, 30 redcoats and falconets, you should win

Treaties

•  IMO the best place for
  
• Get 18 settlers by building manors before you age up to colonial at about 6:00 mins
• Have about 1/3 more on food than wood and coin
• By age three have the ratio of settlers on food, wood and coin at 3:1:2
• should have about 20000 food, 10000 coin and 8000 wood by age V
• upgrade mukets, falconets, mortars and hussars
• after the treaty spam loads of muskets (About 100) and attack the enemy. They won't win but they'll do loads of damage to the enemy army with minimal effect on your eco (Musketeers are really cheap when you have that many resources)
• Keep spamming untill they're army is pretty mush destroyed, you don't have to keep attacking their city though.
• Bring back the surviving musks, train untill you have about 50, train about 20 hussars and as many falconets as possible, and a mortar or two if you have pop
  
• Attack the enemy city with that. Their army won't have recovered enough to fight you off, so wipe out what has been retrained with falconets while using musks as meatshield.
  
• Use musks and hussars to kill settlers (They're both really good at this)
• Use falconets to kill buildings, bring mortars up too if you have pop
• you should win like this. If not, go back to the musk spamming step and keep repeating from there
  

In a treaty with British, the main aim is as follows (differs from other civs because of manors):

• Get market upgrades fast.
• Max out manor houses. (The first 2 happen at the same time).
• Get to industrial as soon as possible. I'm talking before 14 minutes or so. Don't worry about missing a few villagers here or there, just get to age 4 asap.
• Send the estates card, and put most villagers on food.
• Spam villagers from your manor houses.

The above ends up with you maxxing villagers really early, and that's the best thing to do for treaty.