Civ Overview: Ottomans

As sent to me by Maikh
Ottomans:



Pros: strongest rush in the game, strongest early game.

Cons: very weak economy/boom.

Difficulty: Easy



Best strategy: Silk road janissary rush.


Overview:

The ottoman main difference from european civilizations is the fact that their villagers are free, but they take 50 seconds to be created. Due to this fact, they can age up to colonial faster than any european civilization but it also means weaker economy. Instead of the church, they have a mosque, that has a imam instead of a priest, it has techs to improve vil max capacity and creation speed, and they spawn experience at a 0,4 per second rate.
That makes the ottoman rush one of the strongest and fastest rushes, until japan and india were added to the game.
Mistakes you definitely CAN'T do as ottoman:
- Have no other way to gather food and/or coin than berry bushes/mills/plantations: if ottoman get a weaker economy than it was already, you lose.
- Let your vils out there gathering resources without defense, making them easy targets to enemy raids: if your opponent kills your vils: you're economy gets even weaker, and that plus expensive units equals loss.
- Keep making units and building an army instead of attacking and raiding: your advantage is not in a superior army, it's in speed and keep pressuring your opponent until he makes a mistake; if you sit down and let your opponent build his army, it will be bigger than yours, with a better economy than yours.

Can I post a few otto strats here?

go for it

Maikh's back!!! :affraid:

iv seen him on aoe but hes either in game or afk

Where the heck have you been?

I got tired of waiting so much time to play.
btw Basset, sry for being afk, idk y but I left my pc on when I went out, for some reason...
I came back to aoe two or three days ago.
Hope to cya all on soon...

Yay Maikh!

Besides from what I said b4 on eso, I'l pm u the strats. Pls edit the first post and put write them or copy them there basset.

ok well u can pm anytime..

Yeh i agree i found good players rushing with the ottmans tried it for myself and it really dose work

yes they r very good at rushing.. but if their rush dont work.. they lose cuz their eco sux too much for them to get bak on their feet

i remember the good old days when otos where unbeatable, 11min 35 jan rush, was the bestest

then ES decided tht was kinda OP and nerfed em a lil and now they basically suck

not so much suck, just dont seem to win

When you cant win. You suck.

When you can win, but not with a certain civ, the civ sucks.

Tom your a uber NEWB

i didnt say i couldnt win, i said ottomans cant nowadays, and SA_Osiris_ id watch yourself

Ottomans = No skill..... Serioursly..... -.-

BassetMan wrote:

When you can win, but not with a certain civ, the civ sucks.

End of discussion right there then. All they do is give you free villies (lame) and Jans (HI) Abus (Art/LI) Hussar(Cav). So easy to counter and own. The Spahis and Mamelukes are good, but there isnt really enough of them.

Pretty much BassetMan, Ottoman's is a civ for fast rush massing Jans at the start. But if you destroy there rush what will they have next? Hussars. Abus? If you stop there first rush you can easly kill them.

agreed, they are a one shot civ, if u muck up your rush you are basically, screwed, or u can play 10 min treaty and revolt?

Yeah its only a 1 shot Tom. after that No more which sucks about ottomans. They only have 4 Age 2 units.... Well other civ's have way more

Revolts get raped usually...

Lol "Usually".... Depends on how fast you can get them