I think at one point I just did nothing but go to war with them for 50 years as Germany. Best time to hit them is in the first 50 years of the game, and the last 100 years of the game. FML. From 1500 onwards, its time to fight anything, anywhere, all the time. All of this conquest you can do diplomatically, but dont be afraid to declare war if you want things to be a little quicker. While you prepare for a war with Tunis, consolidate your holdings. If you get really lucky, others will follow your lead and you can get a huge dogpile going. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Play smart, have forts in mountains/hills/swamps. 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. After youve wreaked Havoc in Arabia, Africa, and Persia, its time to confront Spain. After finishing up Sicily and Morocco, you can cross the Strait of Gibraltar and siege Spain itself. Otto was huge though and Lithuania was getting routed, but I knew that was going to happen. Just take the province when you fight a war with the state that happens to own it, like Sindh or Gujarat. You need to provide at least cursory information about your situation if you want help. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I can see the benefits both ways, but this is usually how I play it. Normally it's about 100-120k? Which, if any, DLC do you have? 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! I was just bribed to stop being corrupt. How good is your economy? I wanted to do this without wasting my manpower so I can finish off England, France and Poland right after. How do I win a war against them? The mera can also gain land rights, but they have more important modifiers right now, such as the integration of nobility and stronger duchies. If Albania is still around you can try the Skanderbeg strategy and whittle away their forces.Its much easier to do early game. You basically become unstoppable if you avoid unfavourable offensive terrain battles. Honestly, when I want to kill them, I just don't stop declaring war. Hit them early and try to divide their territory works great. Welcome to the third and final part of this Ottomans guide for EU4: The Ottomans made easy! The Spanish AI is fond of expanding into North Africa and might be blocking your way towards these important areas. I'm around the same size as the Ottomans now. Well I just got out of a disasterous war with the Ottomans. The QQ exploded in my case and gave birth to an independent Kurdish state, Soran. Youll gain claims on this area with the missionConquer Mocha, that you get when youve conquered the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Another front for you to not worry about! If youre allied to Naples, call them in only now. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV by Paradox Development Studio. High debt and high war exhaustion means rebels which means even more trouble for them. They started taking ex-moldavia area and are now beating up Venice, I get what you mean, their base from the provinces is 107 while mine is just 38 :(. Once youve successfully taken Samarkand, the one area you still need for the Caliphate is. The longer you drag the war out the better. Early to Mid-game, wait for them to go to ear with Mamluks - this typically exhausts their manpower and gives some time to move in and siege up territory before they can move their armies back from Egypt. The entire army of Tunis or 10k expensive boys? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt9GyYZn0y3vuzouyDCpMrYXebe4nUyOz PATREON https://www.patreon.com/chewyshoot REDDIT https://www.reddit.com/r/chewyshoot/ NEW MERCH https://chewyshoot.creator-spring.com/ Check out the VOD channel to catch streams after the fact https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhobr_D_kg9pV8jQbfAolA#EU4Guide #EU4Ottoman #EU4Ottomans My Mod Pack https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1868840012Consider rating the pack if you enjoy it so others can find it easier in the workshop!__ Join the community Discord server https://discord.gg/RWUbeJZ Keep up to date on the channel via Twitter https://twitter.com/Chewyshoot Subscribe if you haven't already so you can keep up to date with the channel, and ding the bell to get notifications when we upload!__Check out EU4 at the Paradox website https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-iv/EUEU04GSK-MASTER.htmor on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/Europa_Universalis_IV/__Videos and associated commentary are intended to be transformative in nature and thus fall under the \"Fair Use\" laws of video use.This video may contain some audio from the \"Themes of the Old World\" mod on the Steam Workshop for Europa Universalis IV, with the audio created, and licensed to Chewyshoot, by Utopia.Find and support them on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/utopia Best time to hit them is in the first 50 years of the game, and the last 100 years of the game. You can also take a single Croatian province to core-conquer large parts of Dalmatia. 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. But other than that i think army management in Eu4 is nice. Early game there's always the classic no-CB DOW Byzantium strategy, which screws kebab over pretty hard. Who do the Ottomans have as rivals? Press J to jump to the feed. Your situation might differ from mine, but I had to deal with a massive Timurids that united all of Persia. They will then continually build more troops there for you to destroy. That and Quality should give you some pretty good troops. Congratulations on restoring the Caliphate! Then you peace out, take nothing and watch the rebels spawn. Is there actually a way to check to see if Janissary Decadence is fired, or do I just have to declare on them and see who gets stackwiped? 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. Retake all of Transylvanias cores, including Maramaros, and take the provinces in the state of Alfld. If there's any blob near him, they usually have him rivaled, allowing easy alliance. If you annex them, you can no longer get the -10% Aggressive Expansion bonus. The decision makes your country more stable and lets you easily convert all your lands to Sunni if you didnt take humanist ideas before or are really into that. All rights reserved. I just needed to buy enough time to take Tunis/Crete out of the equation. At this point, the war is won. Your situation might differ from mine, but I had to deal with a massive Timurids that united all of Persia. 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). They have massive armies, often blob out of control and usually have strong alliances. They dont grant permanent claims, so only do them when youre ready to attack Hungary once more. Dont give them land though, thatd be a waste of your precious war score. The best way to beat any AI is to let them bleed all their manpower in small stacks, so try to and block the Bosporus if you have naval advantage and let small stacks through (small here being less than 20k or so), then wipe them with a numerical advantage. Note :In The runs with Prussia and Great Britain I beat the Ottomans in the last 10-20 years of the campaign, And another thing that I forgot to mention. Yeah, they aren't the scourge of Christendom for nothing. 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. Make sure you get enough ships. Thanks for the help :). Play your cards right, and you'll be on your way to restoring the Caliphate. Depending on how large the Mamluks are, you can finish them off before 1600. To fully take advantage of their situation, you should wait until they are engaged in a war. Didn't require too much manpower to take them out. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. You must log in or register to reply here. 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. From your base in Morocco and Spain, it shouldnt be hard for you to break your alliance with France and declare war on them. I knew espionage as last idea group and I figured it wasn't worth it, but wanted to try it anyway for fun. With these claims, youll get a great opportunity to expand your holdings when the, fires. You can try and hunt down some Ottomans-unique achievements as well. Keep that Navy under constant pressure. Don't get confused by map size. I declared war on Morocco, which they had guaranteed. So, feel free to jump around in this guide to have it suit your campaign. Youll also get an achievement to show off how great youve become at EU4: theDar al-Islam. Its also important to consolidate your holdings at home. If you wanted to hit them tech 15 infantry backed by cannons would be good, tech 16 would be better, but they get a resurgence in the value of their cav at 18-19. I beat them 2 times , once as Prussia ( it isn't hard to beat them as Prussia ) and as Great Britain ( I allied Russia so Ottomans had to deal with 2 flanks ).My biggest tip for you is that you dont let Ottomans blob too much .I mean if u see them eating the whole of Russia or the whole of PLC , you have to prepare to go to war with them.Get some good generals , some good moral ( something that ottomans dont have ) and some good discipline and you win . Tell them not to get called into their stupid offensive wars so that youre not caught off guard. Youre very powerful around this time, so allies might be willing to become vassals. Watch if you can either go around it by declaring war on an ally, vassalizing the state instead, or ask it kindly to break its alliance using the Great Power status. , but dont complete them just yet. Also always have a military advisor, either a 5% discipline one or a +10% morale one. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Take all the provinces you need for the Caliphate to finally realize the unification of Islam. Genoa and Venice still hold on to some of our rightful territories. I'd take Constantinople and Edirne so you have a land block of the Bosporus and the Ottos can't move their troops through. 1.18 Kilwa -> Italy 85% reduced coring cost One-tag WC, 1.19 Aztec True One-tag WC AAR (complete), 1.20 Theravada SpanishBritalianFrancoPrussian Holy Roman Emperor of China One-tag, Sail On, Ceylon - A Non-European Colonial AAR for EU4. Revanchism might have something to do with that https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Warfare#Revanchism. Get 100% warscore and make the release Byzantium or take Constantinople and Edrine to cut them in half (you can core these two provinces). . I set up two: the Ottoman Hormuz Company and the Ottoman Horn of Africa company. Keep attacking them as soon as that truce is up. After youve wreaked Havoc in Arabia, Africa, and Persia, its time to confront Spain. This part of the guide may look completely different from mine. Spain will be the toughest nut youll have to crack in this entire campaign and kind of the final boss of this, The Ottomans historically had issues expanding into Persia. With both of them weakening, I swooped in and strengthened my position in the Balkan. Premiered Nov 19, 2020 1.3K Dislike Share Save Zlewikk TV 98K subscribers EU4 has already 16 expansions in their library. Might as well ask them to be your vassal! If Ajam gets too big or runs out of cores, integrate them and expand with new vassals, like Fars, Khorasan, Afghanistan, and Transoxiana. Valve Corporation. Istanbul isnt the problem (obviously), and Rome should be easy takings with your dominance in the Mediterranean. Time to make some new friends, I guess. They will either leave you alone while they fight their war, at which point you can just focus on sieging down as many forts as you can, or they'll come straight to confront you, leaving themselves vulnerable in the other front (which means less area to call reinforcements from, income diminishes, war exhaustion goes up). It's actually significantly easier to take the Ottomans down the later you go. The whole of the Bosporus should be your main target for conquest. and our In my case, Hungary got into a war with Austria, which saw both their units occupied. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. When you control these cities, you gain the permanent modifier. And actually, 173k is quite a lot for AI Ottomans in 1609, I think. Even if the Spanish took Ifni, you can take all the provinces in a single war. As others have mentioned, you can beat quantity with quality. It shouldn't be hard man .. I'd recommend not getting too much warscore. In case this is where you enter the series, first of all welcome! So be prepared. I'd suggest playing more aggressive in your conquests, or try to botch them early on because that always works best. Try to break up their alliances. I'm on 700 development with 89 provinces, they're on 878 development with 93. This selection contains highly anticipated releases, sequels, ports and some f We're in the home stretch! Let's play Europa Universalis IV (EU4) as the Ottomans! This is not specific to this run. You don't need any military idea groups or military national ideas to wipe out the Ottomans. This is especially true if the PLC and Russia blobs as they end up all hating each other. Yeah, they like doing that. 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