Talk:Franks/@comment-110.175.12.118-20151229021955/@comment-27202541-20171210161642

The free farm upgrades helps in different ways throughout the game.

In feudal age, it's 75 food and 75 wood saved. Enough said. Coupled with the 25% faster working Foragers, Franks have a good early economy.

In castle age, no one researches Heavy Plow yet, so all the Franks bonus does here is make any farms that you put down/reseed in castle age have more food, saving you quite a lot of wood if you were massing farms and going knights like the Franks enjoy doing.

In imperial age it's similar to Heavy Plow, since Crop Rotation is a mid/late imp technology.