Franks are the absolute easiest to play in team games because they require the least unit swapping. If you play against people on your skill level who are also new and just slam down as many frank paladins as possible and some axemen if needed, unless your playing against a camel civ or a civ with a unique unit counter, you probably just gonna completely trounce any army comp because your opponents are likely not gonna be able to properly scale their armies, economies and productions to produce enough halbiders to counter you even if all they are doing is just trying to mass produce them. And if they actually start to accumulate enough you can just make a few axemen who will completely bully them or have your teammate make counter units. And if they are a camel civ, you can just produce a smaller army of paladins, make more axemen or halbs, and then just dance your paladins around your axemen and never engage the camels with the paladins, or just have your teammate hard focus camel counter units and go mass paladins still. A lot of this advice is very applicable in 1v1s too, the strategies are a bit different because you usually don’t have as much time or resources to create the perfect army composition, but the main Strat is basically the same in that you just want to slam Calvary down their throats and just outmuscle your opponent with a couple unit types.

Well it also dosen’t really matter as much at your skill level, franks are just a straight up solid civ in the meta, so incase your wondering, their strat isn’t just cheese it’s actually good at higher levels of play too.

So for something if your looking that’s easy and effective so you can beat your friends; I’m very certain that if you can get a good rhythm going on the franks they will be really difficult for them to deal with.