Talk:Napoleonic Era/@comment-4762125-20180530021825/@comment-66.190.49.32-20180531062335

Odd indeed. In techtreen (the techtree file used by NE) the French have as an effect in Age0French to activate the tech "HCBlockade". Try deleting that effect. (You will need to exit the game and relaunch before changes take effect.)

Also oddly, there's another tech called "Age0NEFrench" which doesn't do this, but the civs.xml file for NE says that the French don't use this tech anymore (why didn't the NE devs just change the Age0VANILLA_CIV techs instead of adding these near-duplicate "Age0NE" techs is a mystery).