. If you share borders, build some forts and have some battles with -1/-2 modifiers. In this area, you may want to expand recklessly to the point that it nearly breaks your nation. Take the tribal kingdom to the south as your vassal. Most nations will want to be your vassal; conquer the remainder. The only way to stop the Ottomans is to overwhelm them on multiple fronts, since their armies are pretty much always superior to any other nations, even when massively outnumbered. If there's any blob near him, they usually have him rivaled, allowing easy alliance. All rights reserved. . Anyone who dislikes Spain is your friend, in this case. If you have questions do please leave them below and I will answer any and all that I'm able to! THIS CAMPAIGN IS BEST VIEWED THROUGH THE PLAYLIST! Take at leastIfni, Malaga, Cordoba, Palermo,andMessinato Unify Islam. Oh Hungary, you and your developed land filled with claims which just so, unfortunately, sit right next to me. If Medina still exists, you can likely vassalize them to speed up your conquest. form italy (maybe with milan first cause of the sweet ideias), go quantity offensive defensive. The goal is that even when they move their capital into anatolia, they will not have direct land connections to their overseas provinces (hello 75% autonomy), and they won't be able to move across the strait over land without getting mil access from you. If you need a repeatable method, dont annex Morocco after youre done. With everyone on different sides, and AI sucks at doing multi front wars, Ottoman will usually go for one country instead of everyone at once, allowing the rests of the nations to siege freely. Upgrade your centers of trade to turn Constantinople into a powerful trade node while developing your centers of trade. Did you find this guide helpful, or did you run into trouble anywhere? All of this conquest you can do diplomatically, but dont be afraid to declare war if you want things to be a little quicker. Siege down weak Tunis (and Ottos if you can), then make Ottos break treaties with all their powerful allies. I still had Ajam as a vassal, which gets cores on much of Iran. Make sure you are not behind their mil tech level or you will be destroyed, as such it's recommended you weaken them early, They tend to pick a discipline advisor to combo with their 5% discipline tradition, recommend to get as much morale as you can, Use terrain/good generals to your advantage, Get as many good alliances as possible but never declare if they are behind the ottomans in mil tech, You can deny their cores, which is one of the main sources of their strength, You can call a crusade against them if you're the pope which can give you good bonuses. From your base in Morocco and Spain, it shouldnt be hard for you to break your alliance with France and declare war on them. This has a simple reason: Spain. From there, you can also go back to the southern tip of Arabia and take out the states in Yemen there before youve dealt with the Mamluks in Arabia. For more information, please see our This will save you from a continuous threat in the north and allows you to concentrate against more direct enemies, like the Timurids, Austria, and Spain. Luckily for you, the AI in Eu4 is incredibly stupid, so you'll likely only face a portion of their full military at first, and this is a wonderful time to stackwipe a third of their forces. Conquer the World as the Ottomans etc. I recommend annexing any vassal that has no more foreign cores you can take. When dealing with a large nation, core conquest is a very viable tactic. This war can be tricky, so it can be useful to curry favors with important allies that can distract the Spanish, like France, Russia, Britain, or even Bohemia, Scandinavia, or Naples. If you focus on taking down the Ottomans you can't be giving them respite. If you gather your army in many small stacks consisting of 30k each and slowly but steadily march your way to Constantinople, Ottos will likely do the same. Play your cards right, and you'll be on your way to restoring the Caliphate. Soon enough, Ottoman Empire was just busy quelling rebellion rising in half the provinces and all I had to do was siege. You can try and hunt down some Ottomans-unique achievements as well. In my game, I had a problem. their units start to not keep up with different tech groups making them weaker. Don't just make it all Light Ships. Keep some stacks in Europe and the Middle-East, to combat any Spanish troops should they decide to do a naval invasion. Once youve taken the east coast of Arabia, you can complete the mission to. Optimally you want them to release bulgaria. Even with my main allies France and Venice (60kish each) we're still not as powerful as them combined. Their military modifiers will be much weaker in the late game usually. This campaign in EU4 is designed around a slower playstyle by myself, Chewy, and doing my best to explain the. If you're lucky, you might start a dog pile. However, fabricate claims on Palermo and Messina to make it a lot cheaper, should you need more land. By now, the Ottomans are a powerhouse that dominates the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. To maximize your trade income, consider addingWealth of Nations to your DLC list! Ally a powerful nation nearby, such as Great Britain or Scandinavia, and snake your way to Paris from a coastal province. There we have it the end of our EU4 guide, as we made the Ottomans easy! What do I do? their armies are pretty much always superior to any other nations, even when massively outnumbered. Yeah, they aren't the scourge of Christendom for nothing. Slowly head towards Samarkand by expanding Ajam. I decided to take Crete as well, but not yet more of Dalmatia. Gotta love EU4 logic. Total is plus 83%. Ally a powerful nation nearby, such as Great Britain or Scandinavia, and snake your way to Paris from a coastal province. The longer you drag the war out the better. as soon as you can, since you need them to restore the Caliphate. with Castille/Aragon/England or smth. If they have a weaker ally (Tunis is often good for this), DOW on them; this will drag Ottos in, but without the benefit of their powerful allies. Oh Hungary, you and your developed land filled with claims which just so, unfortunately, sit right next to me. Otto was huge though and Lithuania was getting routed, but I knew that was going to happen. You can now complete the missions. With my aggressive expansion pretty high in Europe, its time we shift away. But the amount of micro is through the roof. Use them to take a lot of land for cheap, and use Russia to distract the Timurids in the north. This will also split up their empire in two, which will weaken them considerably. This selection contains highly anticipated releases, sequels, ports and some f We're in the home stretch! Keep that Navy under constant pressure. By giving them Mosul, I was able to vassalize them. Aside from forcing the Russians to take a long way around, your imperial heart will be safe, which works miracles for your prosperity. disaster which hurts your technological advancements tremendously. I allied Lithuania and attacked Ottoman Empire that was allied with Tunis and Crete. You don't need any military idea groups or military national ideas to wipe out the Ottomans. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Doesn't always work but it's a solution if you don't want to start a war right away. When the achievement is complete, you move to a new campaign, the year when you end is not important. Ottoman Empire became modern day Turkey lol. Especially if you got France on your side, the Spanish got a bigger fish to fry, so the heartland lies right open. Good allies can be helpful to overwhelm them. I set up two: the Ottoman Hormuz Company and the Ottoman Horn of Africa company. Your vassal may have some cores left in my case, Makuria had a core on Dongola, so use that and declare war. In case this is where you enter the series, first of all welcome! They have really high income so privateering in their nodes wouldn't do much. Make your way towards the Holy Roman Empire to go there where the real-life Ottomans couldnt: Vienna. Moreover, we need a Moroccan province, Ifni. Siege down the fort in Malaga before swarming over the Spanish mainland. Aside from sealing off the Black Sea and connecting your territories, theres mostly no need for you to conquer anything north of the Caucasus mountains. Eventually, they won't be able to sustain these wars as efficiently from the constant lack of manpower and they'll be taking loans for merc armies. I took most of the Levant, snaked my way to Medina, got some more land in the Nile Delta, and cleaned up my African borders. Ally other countries that have navies. Prussian troops stackwipe Ottos easy in the 1600s. You can take small coastal ports when you peace out their allies to gain an early foothold. Give the UlemaUlema Land Rights, the Merchant GuildsMerchand Guild Land Rights, and the DhimmiDhimmi Land Rights. One of the biggest flaws for the Ottos is that they're very spread out across three continents (most of the time) meaning they are pretty prone to splitting their forces. Your situation might differ from mine, but I had to deal with a massive Timurids that united all of Persia. Play your cards right, and you'll be on your way to restoring the Caliphate. The Ottoman troops are better than European troops for a large part of the game because of their bonuses, and the fact that they have increased pips. Look around Ottoman. The Spanish AI is fond of expanding into North Africa and might be blocking your way towards these important areas. Wait for an opportunity. More governing capacity means more states, and more states means more money. My ally kept Otto busy while I destroyed their navy, and I took forced Tunis/Crete to accept peace by taking their providence and blockading them. Just getting all of the arriving divisions to the front by rail is enough, not to mention everything else. EUIV: AAR's, Let's Plays, and Fan Fiction, EU IV: Alternate History Short Story Contest Contr. Prevent their room for expansion, cut them off so rebels can take hold or other nations can try to expand, and declare war whenever the truce timer is up. Try to disconnect their capital from asia. You also take 60%+ of their trade income with this deal. This war can be tricky since Hungary could have a high discipline. If you are humanist support rebels in suppressive countries, if you are an absolute monarchy destroy the revolution. Also always have a military advisor, either a 5% discipline one or a +10% morale one. You can attack the Spanish head-on, but this might bring in some difficult allies. And actually, 173k is quite a lot for AI Ottomans in 1609, I think. I always have this anxiety about attacking them; even though they fold like paper tigers every time. Find the first and second installments of this guide here: Since this Ottomans EU4 guide is so RNG-heavy, youll likely be running into situations that dont play out as planned. Works better if you have a fleet to block the straight, e.g. After that, make Paris a state and assign a Pasha to it in the corresponding maintenance screen. Its also important to consolidate your holdings at home. East Africa is a great target. After finishing up Sicily and Morocco, you can cross the Strait of Gibraltar and siege Spain itself. Thing is, I don't think there is an easy fix to this because, as I said, optimal play happenes as a consequence of how the game is designed. This part of the guide may look completely different from mine. We cant have that! Its useful for you to grab important Caucasus provinces early. The country is mountainous and can be tricky to conquer or divert resources to, especially if you need them against Spain. Get them to a high war exhaustion and then white peace them. Its fundamental throughout this guide that you use little diplomatic entanglements to further your conquest. Avoid the war goal on purpose, occupy Constantinople + Turkish provinces only. I personally wouldn't ally (all) big nations around the Ottoman. You can assign far-flung territories to trade companies to help you bring in some extra ducats. I was sowing discontent Ottoman Empire right from the get go, but at this point I started funneling my extremely large treasury into supporting the Ottoman rebellion. The Ottomans tend to be hard to beat around the mid game, when they build up their Jannisaries (sp?) Beats conquering, right? is a province you will need to retake the Caliphate. Integrate the vassal after theyve cored all of Sudan for you since hanging on to Ethiopia will be trouble for them. After finishing up Sicily and Morocco, you can cross the Strait of Gibraltar and siege Spain itself. From 1500 onwards, its time to fight anything, anywhere, all the time. Then declare (3-4 months later) and invade the opposite front. Otto was huge though and Lithuania was getting routed, but I knew that was going to happen. I strongly recommend keeping Oman around as a vassal for the time being theres a good chance theyll be the last nation to host the Hanbali school of thought. Anyone who dislikes Spain is your friend, in this case. If you have questions do please leave them below and I will answer any and all that I'm able to! THIS CAMPAIGN IS BEST VIEWED THROUGH THE PLAYLIST! That's why my new. Upgrade your centers of trade to turn Constantinople into a powerful trade node while developing your centers of trade. You deal with their numbers by stackwiping their troops with quality and composition. If you annex them, you can no longer get the -10% Aggressive Expansion bonus. If you're a relatively powerful nation like PLC, Hungary, Austria, castille, etc, you can just straight up declare war and beat them before they get big. Are the Mamluks still around? For example, in my Italy game I was fighting the Ottomans and their 200k soldiers with only 80k in the 1570's(no allies cause I just didn't stop eating). What nation are you playing as? Its useful for you to grab important Caucasus provinces early. What military ideas do they have? Youll gain claims on this area with the missionConquer Mocha, that you get when youve conquered the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. How to beat Ottomans as Poland It is 1505, I annexed Danzig, Mazovia, Lithuania as a junior partner, and Austrians as my allies. You may be able to take the Nile Delta, but this could be too expensive at this time. With everyone on different sides, and AI sucks at doing multi front wars, Ottoman will usually go for one country instead of everyone at once, allowing the rests of the nations to siege freely. Particularly as Poland/Commonwealth, which has a nice set of military national ideas. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Use them to take a lot of land for cheap, and use Russia to distract the Timurids in the north. Just take the province when you fight a war with the state that happens to own it, like Sindh or Gujarat. A few suggestions on improving existing mechanics: Yeah shipping troops around is not the most fun thing to do for me either. If you do that, the AI will continue building troops and go further into debt than today's Greece. Purchase some mercenaries in Benghazi and siege down at least one of Fezzans provinces, like Sirt. Over the years, hes developed a similar passion for writing, which he mostly gains during his studies. To repeat some more basic info (so you wont have to hop pages all the time), this EU4 Ottomans guide was written for patch 1.33.3 with all DLCs installed. If Albania is still around you can try the Skanderbeg strategy and whittle away their forces.Its much easier to do early game. You can now also complete the mission. Take as much land as you're willing to take. However, history wont stop us! You can also take a single Croatian province to core-conquer large parts of Dalmatia. While you prepare for a war with Tunis, consolidate your holdings. If you had a strong Russia, France, and Austria. A no CB to vassalize Byzantium, followed by a straightforward war with ottomans to reclaim Byzantium cores is a popular move. I'm on 700 development with 89 provinces, they're on 878 development with 93. I was sowing discontent Ottoman Empire right from the get go, but at this point I started funneling my extremely large treasury into supporting the Ottoman rebellion. The guide also assumes that players know the basics of the game, such as constructing buildings, managing armies and finances, and conquering new territory. You wouldn't have much issue at all. If your army has at least 20 Janissary regiments or over 20% of the army is Janissaries, and your stability is negative, you may be facing theJanissary Coupdisaster which hurts your technological advancements tremendously. Ideally, you managed to cripple the Spanish armies trapped in Morocco, so the Spanish may not put up much of a fight. Move your army in position and declare war to retake a Transylvanian core like Hunyad. I'm around the same size as the Ottomans now, but their total units are 173k compared to my 49k. Particularly as Poland/Commonwealth, which has a nice set of military national ideas. Try to break up their alliances. Fight them after tech 14, they will no longer have pip advantage from troops. The entire army of Tunis or 10k expensive boys? Let's play Europa Universalis IV (EU4) as the Ottomans! I strongly recommend keeping Oman around as a vassal for the time being theres a good chance theyll be the last nation to host the Hanbali school of thought. EUIV: AAR's, Let's Plays, and Fan Fiction, EU IV: Alternate History Short Story Contest Contr. Moscow is a tougher nut to crack focus on core conquest to make your way into Russia and take the city. Pick one difficult achievement from steam (preferably one that is owned by less than 1% of players) and start a campaign with that achievement as a goal. Time to make some new friends, I guess. Best time to hit them is in the first 50 years of the game, and the last 100 years of the game. The Ottomans are in a precarious position because they need to essentially control two land masses that are not easily accessible. Without forts, their lands will capitulate very fast and leave them indefensible, whether vs the likes of Ramazan/Mameluks or even yourself in the next war. Itd give me a serious coalition I dont want to face yet. If there's any blob near him, they usually have him rivaled, allowing easy alliance. Quite manageable. It's probably a bit late now anyway, once I finish my first game I'm getting a couple of the DLCs and probably not playing as Lithuania again. . Best time to hit them is in the first 50 years of the game, and the last 100 years of the game. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Warfare#Revanchism. No you're not. . By writing about games, he can bring two of his great passions together. and since my goals are quite small and achievable I usually. And dont forget to fabricate a claim, of course. You need to win those navy encounters fast. Who would win? Getting the war goal and war score to go up, gives the chance for a good peace deal which makes them weaker and every following war with them easier. Save up some of the power to reverse the stability effects and war exhaustion and just keep hitting them. However, you might have other priorities, and Tunis gains wiggle room. Before declaring war, see if there are any vassals you can annex. What (military) ideas do you have? Look around Ottoman. It's best to strike if they are already in a war. The Ottomans are at such a crossroads of trade routes that good trade can make them very very wealthy. Alternatively, you may be able to ally with Russia. They have claims on the provinces, which means that if they get the siege, you wont be able to take it in the peace deal. Later on, the Ottomans don't have janissaries and your units should be just as good as theirs. Thanks for the help :). For the nations you choose to play and the courses you chart for those nations. You can trap their navies and force them out to reduce their naval strength, but thats completely optional. At this point, you might be running into government capacity issues. I wasn't attacked even once during my sieges and once I scored 100% I liberated some countries and absorbed enough provinces to get me to around 100% over extension. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. I've hit them several times as the PLC in my most recent games after the 1600s, they're not invincible no matter how many troops they have. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Your situation might differ from mine, but I had to deal with a massive Timurids that united all of Persia. After you declare war on Morocco, focus on landing an army on Sicily and taking down the Spanish and Moroccan holdings in Africa. After you dealt with Genoa, you can complete the mission Conquer Caffa for a temporary trade power boost in the Black Sea. Rinse and repeat to make them a non-factor eventually. If Ajam gets too big or runs out of cores, integrate them and expand with new vassals, like Fars, Khorasan, Afghanistan, and Transoxiana. The rest of Europe was functionally cowed because after the first war I could just keep fighting them over and over and over again without them putting up a huge response. I've already taken aristocratic, espionage, humanist, quality, and expansion ideas. They will then continually build more troops there for you to destroy. ThroughHumanistideas andTradeideas, you can make your country less prone to revolt and wealthier. Destroy navy and beat up whatever army they dredge up. Might as well ask them to be your vassal! Proceed to stomp the Ottomans, and get them to return all Byzantine cores. As others have mentioned, you can beat quantity with quality. I think at one point I just did nothing but go to war with them for 50 years as Germany. You can do so by going to the diplomatic interaction screen, selecting diplomatic feedback and toggling join offensive wars off. The Caucasus mountains provide a valuable defense. I can understand the complaints about micro-managing, and it's especially true if you're colonial, but that's a consequence of choice in some sense. (Commonwealth). This will deplete their manpower to zero, cause them to take out loans they can't repay and raise their WE to 20 very quickly. Late mid-game and late game their troops have become much worse though, and if you play western tech you can usually crush significantly larger Ottoman armies in that period. Best advice for beating ottomans is simply stop being intimidated by their numbers and fight them. When you fight with the Mamluks, make sure to expand into Saudi Arabia, towards Medina and Yemen. They dont grant permanent claims, so only do them when youre ready to attack Hungary once more. Make sure you are stable both in terms of unrest and economy and move your armies to Morocco. JavaScript is disabled. They just can't grow to the same extent if they don't have Constantinople. Even if the Spanish took Ifni, you can take all the provinces in a single war. Youre very powerful around this time, so allies might be willing to become vassals. Can you afford mercs? You can run up their war exhaustion very easily. , that you get when youve conquered the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. You have expanded into what is fairly worthless, empty, lands on the steppes, whereas the Ottomans have most likely expanded into the rich cities of Anatolia and Egypt. Don't let them. Note: Be smart about who you declare war on. How do I win a war against them? With these claims, youll get a great opportunity to expand your holdings when the, fires. Fortunately, this is a coastal province, so you wont have to expand deeply inward. . to grant you a bunch more permanent claims all around. In my game, Austria has been beaten down and is pretty tiny, Russia is getting slowly annexed by me and the Malmuks aren't doing much. If he goes for other nations, it's just easier for you to carpet siege all the forts you want. needs you to core Rome, Moscow, and Istanbul. Early game there's always the classic no-CB DOW Byzantium strategy. This is typically when other great powers take their opportunity to declare war on the ottomans so they end up fighting 3 wars at once. If I put all of my allies into one battle (Me, France, Venice, Nogai, Genoa) then I might have a chance, but now I've had to dissolve the Venice alliance so I didn't get dragged into a war with just me and Venice. You can also take a single Croatian province to core-conquer large parts of Dalmatia. I just said in a different forum two days ago that WitE would be a much better game if Paradox had designed the UI. I had about 100k troops and France, Austria, Venice, and Brandenburg on my side and we all got crushed, leading me to believe the Ottomans are just naturally supposed to dominate. Once they do, you attack. Most nations will want to be your vassal; conquer the remainder. It's not so much worth breaking truce any more with AE, revolt risk and manpower recovery in the early game being what it is. I have a good navy and army but I definitely can't beat them alone. Press J to jump to the feed. Make sure to at least take Pest for the. how do you deal with ottomans when they take quantity ideas? If you annex them, you can no longer get the -10% Aggressive Expansion bonus. Techs that give tactics are also a nice advantage, but not as big of an advantage as morale. Screenshots would be helpful, or at the bare minimum a list of your and the Ottomans' alliances, with some rough idea of their strength and position. The intent is for you to play along and improve your skills and understanding of the game, and have fun all the while! Arabia shouldnt give you any issues. 43.9K subscribers Let's play Europa Universalis IV (EU4) as the Ottomans! Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. If you have built up your nation in the 1650-1821, you should be able to handle them as Spain. If this doesnt bring their disloyalty above 50, do so to make the annexation process easier. 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