That and Quality should give you some pretty good troops. When dealing with a large nation, core conquest is a very viable tactic. 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. I encountered some issues in my own run that couldve jeopardized the progress of this guide. Its useful for you to grab important Caucasus provinces early. . The Spanish AI is fond of expanding into North Africa and might be blocking your way towards these important areas. For your finances throughout this run, trade is instrumental. At the time the achievement fired it was all of France and Netherlands essentially. With these claims, youll get a great opportunity to expand your holdings when theReligious League Warfires. If you do that, the AI will continue building troops and go further into debt than today's Greece. I played a Russia campaign a couple of weeks back, and attacked the Ottomans a lot late mid-game to late game, and I used my ally Spain to crush their armies (they easily won battles against the Ottos while being outnumbered 2:1). Beats conquering, right? I allied Lithuania and attacked Ottoman Empire that was allied with Tunis and Crete. Techs that give tactics are also a nice advantage, but not as big of an advantage as morale. Cordoba is a landlocked province, so its tricky to fabricate a claim. Just getting all of the arriving divisions to the front by rail is enough, not to mention everything else. Make sure to at least take Pest for theBibliotheca Corvinanagreat project. Thanks anyway :). There we have it the end of our EU4 guide, as we made the Ottomans easy! Proceed to stomp the Ottomans, and get them to return all Byzantine cores. It just depends on actually winning the first war. The next war should be much easier. If you had a strong Russia, France, and Austria. 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. Now observe the situation. To fully take advantage of their situation, you should wait until they are engaged in a war. Even if the Spanish took Ifni, you can take all the provinces in a single war. I'm around the same size as the Ottomans now, but their total units are 173k compared to my 49k. If Ajam gets too big or runs out of cores, integrate them and expand with new vassals, like Fars, Khorasan, Afghanistan, and Transoxiana. Works better if you have a fleet to block the straight, e.g. The intent is for you to play along and improve your skills and understanding of the game, and have fun all the while! In case this is where you enter the series, first of all welcome! Imo wars in eu4 are less about fighting and more about sieging, especially later in the game with the Imperialism CB where you need to siege your opponents capital down asap for easy WS and WE. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Just like in actual history, France and the Ottomans make quite natural allies. Time to make some new friends, I guess. Upgrade your centers of trade to turn Constantinople into a powerful trade node while developing your centers of trade. Which, if any, DLC do you have? Tell them not to get called into their stupid offensive wars so that youre not caught off guard. Ally a powerful nation nearby, such as Great Britain or Scandinavia, and snake your way to Paris from a coastal province. The Ottomans are at such a crossroads of trade routes that good trade can make them very very wealthy. 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. Make sure to at least take Pest for the. Its useful for you to grab important Caucasus provinces early. Helping out AI friends and building up long term rivalries and friendships can break the monotony. Oh Hungary, you and your developed land filled with claims which just so, unfortunately, sit right next to me. Also I'm a scrub. You can trap their navies and force them out to reduce their naval strength, but thats completely optional. Decent generals, high morale and good army tradition can be of great help. 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. Congratulations! As others have mentioned, you can beat quantity with quality. Venice still owns Crete, and Genoa still has a bunch of islands in the Meditteranean, as well as outposts in Crimea. In my case, Hungary got into a war with Austria, which saw both their units occupied. Uncover the secrets of Hidegpuszta in this classic survival horror, Remorse: The List. They hit a mid game power peak typically that's hard to beat, this is not the best time to try fighting them. And dont forget to fabricate a claim, of course. Avoid tough wars by using Spains diplomatic commitments! Who would win? The last thing he needs is for an opportunistic Austria + friends to form a coalition, even if it's inccurred making a DoW against Otto, and then have to deal with large stacks of rebels in the midst of two wars. So, feel free to jump around in this guide to have it suit your campaign. The Caucasus mountains provide a valuable defense. 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You can also try bringing other people in on your war. More importantly, the land you had to take to unify the Caliphate should have made you a formidable power by now. Press J to jump to the feed. The better player you are, the more attention you pay to all of this aspects. What military ideas do they have? Take all the provinces you need for the Caliphate to finally realize the unification of Islam. Look around Ottoman. Sadly its very hard because not only do they have quantity, i believe its +33% land force from ideas. This might not be as helpful as all the comments but I'll just post my observations: I've noticed ai Ottomans tends to overexert themselves near late game with nonstop wars. Ideally, you managed to cripple the Spanish armies trapped in Morocco, so the Spanish may not put up much of a fight. 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. If you want to spice up lategame i recommend some RP. If he goes for other nations, it's just easier for you to carpet siege all the forts you want. I'd recommend not getting too much warscore. 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. Ottomans declared war on me, me and austria had 32k troops in a mountain province, Ottomans attacked with 17k, absolutely destroyed us with their garbage general while we both had 3 star generals. Take forts. 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. 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. Gotta love EU4 logic. You can trap their navies and force them out to reduce their naval strength, but thats completely optional. This is not specific to this run. Once you declared war on Tunis, expand Fezzan in the desert itself and take the powerful coastal provinces for yourself. The Ottomans tend to be hard to beat around the mid game, when they build up their Jannisaries (sp?) I recommend annexing any vassal that has no more foreign cores you can take. With both of them weakening, I swooped in and strengthened my position in the Balkan. Tbh, quality troops will usually win wars against the Ottomans. This is especially true if the PLC and Russia blobs as they end up all hating each other. Best time to hit them is in the first 50 years of the game, and the last 100 years of the game. If you get really lucky, others will follow your lead and you can get a huge dogpile going. If their manpower gets low and/or they're in multiple wars, the time might be right to pile on. Didn't require too much manpower to take them out. Particularly as Poland/Commonwealth, which has a nice set of military national ideas. Particularly as Poland/Commonwealth, which has a nice set of military national ideas. Rinse and repeat to make them a non-factor eventually. . Who're they allied to? Before declaring war, see if there are any vassals you can annex. . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Otto was huge though and Lithuania was getting routed, but I knew that was going to happen. 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. Upgrade your centers of trade to turn Constantinople into a powerful trade node while developing your centers of trade. You can now also complete the mission. You can beat them in the early, middle, or late game. Cookie Notice 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. By now, the Ottomans are a powerhouse that dominates the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. After you declare war on Morocco, focus on landing an army on Sicily and taking down the Spanish and Moroccan holdings in Africa. Premiered Nov 19, 2020 1.3K Dislike Share Save Zlewikk TV 98K subscribers EU4 has already 16 expansions in their library. Youre very powerful around this time, so allies might be willing to become vassals. Next, occupy Constantinople and vassalize Byzantium. start again as france and take beter ideas and no CB byzantium early. With both of them weakening, I swooped in and strengthened my position in the Balkan. 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. Not to mention their ability to tech like hell. You can take small coastal ports when you peace out their allies to gain an early foothold. Although you can speed up conquest by using diplomatic entanglements, wars with the Mamluks will mostly be you chipping away at them over time. So their tech 12 infantry are the same pips as western tech 15, giving you parity, until tech 19 when you can edge ahead. Late game - wait until their troop strength falls below western strength. 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. However, by the logic that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, I reached out to a powerful historical ally of the Ottomans France makes a perfect ally in this scenario. A country Im supposed to take over is allied with a bigger and stronger country. If you focus on taking down the Ottomans you can't be giving them respite. Take at least, More importantly, the land you had to take to unify the Caliphate should have made you a formidable power by now. The Ottomans have a unique tech group, Anatolian, which starts out with some of the best units in the game, but they tend to fizzle out the later and later you go. Then you peace out, take nothing and watch the rebels spawn. How do I win a war against them? I control most of Northern Africa and Central Europe. By outsmarting Hungary, the Mamluks, and Venice, we became the undisputed ruler of the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Levant. While if they attack them with you not allied to said nation, it's that big country plus it's allies and then you can start a war with your allies against the Ottoman at the same time. Siege down the fort in Malaga before swarming over the Spanish mainland. Keep some stacks in Europe and the Middle-East, to combat any Spanish troops should they decide to do a naval invasion. 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