Talk:Dutch/@comment-6518657-20150427182112

"God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland."

When I played this game as a kid, I used to think of the Dutch as the 'weakest' faction in the game (I only played SP, and the AI has no idea how to play the Dutch properly. Don't blame me.)

A few months back, I re-installed the game and decided to try out the Dutch - boy, was I wrong. Best thing about the faction is that you can essentially ignore gold as a resource once your banks are set up since you get a bottomless, neverending flow of gold that doesn't require villagers to maintain. With the expansion packs, the infinite-use Home City card for Fusilier mercs is just happiness in a button: No other faction lets you get a (replenishable!) bunch of raspy Swedish mercenaries to casually bench-press the enemy army for you.