A Guide to the Ottoman Empire

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Some advice regarding schools,
in my experience, out of the starting provinces, the following regions are suitable for school/universities

Anatolia: it has so many cities un-spawned that it can support 2 schools
Mesopotamia
Rumelia
Egypt

egypt requires effort to spawn the last couple of buildings,
build a major fishing port here, and upgrade to the very last farm,
and they all require madrassas on all other cities,
which has the positive side effect of spawning needed priests

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I'm wondering how many, if any, are playing Ottoman on hard campaign without using the 'military access' cheat ?

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I've been playing Ottoman on hard campaign lately,
and it turns out i can't share a border with anyone two turns without ending up in war.
To salvage this, and because i use a mod with low movement points,
one army in Balkan is not enough to keep Austrian warmongers at bay, and i can't afford more, so:
as a last resort, i trade my starting tech + military access to barbary for Algers,
i build a light galley here on turn 1, and on turn 2 when Austria declare war,
i sell off Algers + ALL the fcn balkan countries to Mughal for everything they got, which is 28.000 in my mod.
I send that single galley to block gibraltar before GB comes and messes up my business with both Spain & Barbary,
and it is important to sell these trouble-countries no later than turn 2, cause beside Austria wanting balkan,
Morocco want Algers, but no country will attack Mughal

[Batur Atilla]

CA made very weak soldiers for Ottomans. Ottomans were using Janissary in 1700 but we cant make Janissary units till 1730.

i always destroy just in 1710

my enemies is not 1 are not 2,3,4,5
so all players cant play with Ottomans.
i played with prussia, austria, ottomans, maratha, gb, france, italia, spain, portugal, mughal, crimea, barbary, georgia, persia, usa, nederland, denmark etc

i cant play with ottomans vh and vh
austria, it was very hard
poland, i think its very easy. because their cavalry so strong. i have all balkan cities and austria.
prussia, it was hard but not very hard. because prussian soldiers are strong
usa, very easy
nederland, medium
gb, very easy
france, hard
italia, very hard
georgia, easy
crimea very hard
barbary, if you make peace with Ur enemies, it wont be very hard
mughal, medium
maratha, easy

i think so

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i disagree, ottoman can build bigger guns faster, every general has an eye for trajectory & was born to the sound of guns,
and in ETW, artillery is OP.

For early infantry, nothing beats kurds units, upgrade barrack in syria and mass produce kurds,
use them as your only infantry, they got better stats than any other early light infantry and are cheap as chips.

dont bother with jannisaries, they are overpriced, but the new nizam has better stats than any other regular infantry

[Batur Atilla]

i disagree
kurdish infantry dont fight against my enemies. i dont like infantry like that. i search economic tech. firstly so when i fight kurdish units, my enemies have line infantry and the war end before dont start

so actually ottoman units are not realistic. Ottomans didnt use those unite.

ottomans and other turkic empires had 28394959382 cavalry. but we cant see good cavalry units for ottomans. maybe you can win against persia with deli, memluks and that kurdish units -but maybe-

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some ETW gamers consider mameluk cavalry to be the best cavalry in game, you could spam them,
altho if you want a more historical angle you would go for deli horse archers.
back to kurds, i use them exclusively when i take russia, and lotsa arty,
IIRC a kurd unit cost 90 pistoleros in upkeep, that is less than half than for a regular western line infantry