EU4 1.35 Ottomans Guide - The NEW EASIEST WORLD CONQUEST in EU4 

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Alright some tips not mentioned in the video for the Ottomans. You may not think you need extra tips, since the Ottomans are so powerful and they're so noob friendly, but trust me, you may get surprised. 1: The First thing you should ask yourself when playing as the Ottomans is very simple. How long do you plan to play? That sounds irrelevant, but it is. If you are only planning to play until around 1600ish then this isn't really that big of a deal. HOWEVER, if you plan to play the Ottomans deep into the Age of Absolutism or beyond, then you need to change the way you plan to play. If you are familiar with the End of the Cycle from Stellaris, then the Ottomans have a very similar playstyle. For those unfamiliar, the End of the Cycle gives you absolutely insane production, research and military buffs for 50 years (a very long time in that game). HOWEVER, at the end of that time period, you lose everything and your empire gets reduced to a small one planet system and everyone hates you. That's how the Decadence system for the Ottomans works. For the first 200 so odd years of the game, you are practically a god. I've faced the entirety of Europe as a coalition and they never declared on me because they didn't think they could win. But, without proper preparation, your game practically ends at the beginning of the Age of Absolutism. At 100% Decadence, you receive: +100% Idea/Tech group cost, -50% Fort Defense, -50% Siege Ability. There's a couple of others but those are the big ones. 2: The Internal Power Struggle, and the 4 disasters that will almost always fire alongside of and are enabled by it, is probably the worst disaster in the game. It is meant to mirror the events that caused the fall of the Ottoman Empire IRL (or rather it's severe decline), and it will absolutely cripple your nation. You may think that isn't a big deal, even the biggest disasters are pretty easy to deal with right? Only the Crisis of the Ming Dynasty and the Dominance of the Eunuchs disasters are really that bad right? Wrong. The Internal Power Struggle, when it fires, will open up a new branch of your Mission Tree that you have to complete in order to end the disaster. The Disaster can only end if you complete those missions (4 for each disaster or so) or if you lose the Ottoman Government type. The game will not tell you these requirements prior to you entering the disaster. 2A: The Plot of the Harem disaster requires you to have the Court Idea Group completed to take the final mission of the disaster, in addition to having a ruler who has 15 or more skill points so a minimum 5/5/5 ruler. This is perhaps the most difficult and annoying disaster to end because even with Dynastic Administration Reform and Court Ideas completed, you are still only guaranteed a 1/1/0 ruler at minimum. It is completely RNG if you can get out of this or not. 2B:The Disloyal Eyalets disaster requires you to own the entire region of Persia either directly or as an Eyalet. You can softlock yourself into not being able to complete this disaster if you don't conquer Persia before it fires, as good luck fighting a war with -50% Fort Defense or sieging anything down with -50% Siege Ability. 2C: The Janissary Coup Disaster requires you to have 2 Military Idea Groups completed and significant professionalism or very high military tradition to end. You lose 100% Army professionalism at the beginning of the disaster and you also need to have no corruption. If you choose to fight the Janissaries, you will have access to the Mansure Army reform which gives you a bunch of buffs and also switches you to Western Mil tech units. 2D: The Corrupt Pashas disaster requires you to either have no Pashas assigned OR to have 125 provinces assigned to Pashas while also having no provinces with the "Pasha Removed" modifier. 2E: All of the disasters require you to have been in the Internal Power Struggle for at least 3 years and to have been in each respective disaster 5 years. Minimum 8 Years. The Easiest way to mitigate how badly the disaster hits you is to take Court Ideas, 2 military idea groups, and to have conquered the Persia region while having no Pashas assigned prior to the disaster firing. The AI does cheese this disaster and it is pretty rare to see them get hit by the Internal Power Struggle now. 3: However, if you are not planning on playing past the Age of Reformation, then fuck it. Go as hard as you want. Diplo/Admin start, followed up by Offensive or Quality and just fight the world until you are satisfied or the Internal Power Struggle hits. 4: Early game manpower management is key and one of the reasons you want Eyalets and tons of them. Rarely will I contradict what Red Hawk says about something, but in this case, it is more beneficial to have a bunch of small Eyalets than it is to have one big one. Especially since it becomes very difficult to convert them to Core Eyalets once they get above 150 dev. The only times you should want a huge Eyalet is in the cases where the Mission Tree lets you convert them to Core Eyalets instantly, like Tunis/Egypt/Hungary. You can, of course, take Quantity, but you don't need it if you exploit the Eyalet system correctly. 5: You can convert normal vassals into Eyalets and its much better even though it does delay your ability to annex them. Eyalets function like pseudo-allies, and they CAN be separate peaced. There used to be an exploit where you could take well beyond 100% warscore via your Eyalets, but I don't know if you can do that anymore. Also, don't Divert Trade with Eyalets, especially Core Eyalets, they already give you so much income that you don't need it, all it ends up doing is giving them 30% liberty desire for nothing. 6: You get some pretty crazy buffs and reforms at the end of your Mission tree, but it can take ALOT of planning to get there. Like one of the missions requires you to have done 4 agendas for every estate, and at one diet every 10 years, that's something like 160+ years to complete. This is mitigated by Court Ideas a little, which reduces the cooldown of Estate Interactions and you should be taking them anyway if you want to play beyond the Age of Blob simulation, but it can feel like a waste to take them. Similarly, you can get a second Golden Age if you Unite Islam. 7: Don't fear the Janissaries. Use them, exploit them, do whatever with them. Janissaries get a bonus to assaulting forts, and early game, this is very key to rapid expansion. An army with Janissaries in it will be able to take down a fort they otherwise would not have been able too via assaulting but make sure you don't accidentally use an army with no Janissaries in it otherwise you are just wasting manpower and will likely fail to take the fort. 8: Eyalets do not count as a land border for coring purposes if your capital is not on the same continent as them. This is a big one as getting a massive Eyalet like Egypt can effectively wall you out of being able to conquer more land in certain directions for yourself. Since Constantinople is considered a European province, this means that when you are conquering areas like Persia, your Core Eyalets, who cannot be called into war, and cannot be given provinces in a war though their claims and cores can be used to declare war, can effectively wall you out of being able to conquer beyond them. 9: It may be tempting, but don't take Influence ideas. Yes, the modifiers to Vassal force limit and tax do affect Eyalets, yes it is very powerful. But then you get the Disloyal Eyalets disaster and suddenly you go bankrupt since that disaster causes you to no longer receive income from Eyalets even if they are loyal.

I always like to play with the long game in mind when I play as the Ottomans. I start by guaranteeing Granada and trying to vassalize Fezzan (need to take Crete to be lower the distance modifier), quickly conquering Byzantium and the Turkish bayliks, attacking Trebizond and Circassia (less chance of Muscovite intervention) and warning Muscovy against the Hordes, and then attacking Hungary. This way future great powers and/or small hurdle countries become less of a threat - namely Spain, Russia, Austria, the Commonwealth and Tunis. I also like to ally France and/or Bohemia at the start to also dissuade their neighbours/my rivals from trying anything.

for those who new to the game like me, here are the timestamps: 02:38 : National Decisions 02:45 : Estates 04:21 : Rivals 04:29 : Advisors 05:19 : Missions 07:00 : Army Positioning 07:42 : Naval Doctrine 08:27 : First war against Byzantine 09:10 : Curry Favor & Royal Marriage & Improve Relations w/ Crimea 10:27 : Annex & Setting Constantinople as Capital City before making core 11:09 : Next War w/ Epirus 11:37 : Trade favors for trust w/ Crimea 12:19 : East Wars w/ Karaman - Dulkadir - Ramazan - Candar 13:11 : Trade favors for trust w/ Crimea again 14:54 : Asign Pashas 15:49 : Light Ship fleet - Hagia Sophia Upgrade Event 16:13 : Balkans Mission - Prepare war 17:49 : 2nd East Wars & Construct Buildings 19:05 : Allies 19:33 : Tier 2 Goverment Reform & Decadence System 20:54 : Kosova Development for Gold mine (Don't asign Pasha for Kosova state) 21:27 : 2nd Balkan War 21:57 : Age Ability 22:34 : 1st Mamluks War Prep 23:19 : Lower Autonomy for some states 23:27 : Buff up army a bit 23:38 : Spy on Mamluks 24:01 : Technology 23:17 : 1st Mamluks War 24:53 Fate of the Patriarchate event 25:29 : First Tech 26:21 : 1st Mamluks War's Demands 27:37 : Ally France - No rush 27:51 : Unfocus Military on Court 27:57 : 3rd Balkan War (Venice) 28:34 : Crimea Event 29:03 : Tier 3 Goverment Reform 29:54 : Last balkan provinces 30:04 : 2nd Age of Discovery Skill 30:30 : Don't take the mission yet 32:03 : 2nd Tech 32:47 : Buff up Cannons 32:53 : 2nd Mamluk Wars with Ottoman Invasion 33:49: Mamluks Event 34:39 : Mamluks Event 2 35:34 : Break Alliance with Tunis If you have 35:39 : Take the mission that we skipped and prep wars on north - and don't take Egpyt quest yet 36:15 : Hungarian Wars with Ottoman Invasion 36:58 : Establish Eyalet with Hungary and take their money 37:31 : Eyalets Overview 38:48 : Take the Egypt quest and Declare war to tunis 39:05 : Jannissary Events 39:46 : Tier 4 Goverment Reform 40:06 : Make Tunis Eyalet 40:34 : Jannissary Event when ruler dies 40:44 : Higher 3 Diplo Adviser when Mamluks has +200 Relations to take quest Don't try to copy everything and do the same. While doing these, find out why you are doing them and look at the results. If you try to do something using the stamps without watching the video completely, you will fail. Thanks for the video, it was a good guide.

It would be nice if you would continue to play this campaign. We need to see how to deal with the decadence in the late game.

Why delete the janissary troops when instead you can consolidate them so that the few you do keep end up with full 1000 manpower each, or as close to it as possible.

Thank you so much for this, I've been waiting for an ottomans guide

I'm actually glad you've kept the guides with no facecam. They feel more professional/formal this way.

Why EU4 channels are making a video on the easiest part of the Ottoman gameplay and not on the 1650-1700 with the struggle of power

43:00 you could also have diplomatically vassalised Morocco and promoted them to an Eyalet

I like your guide cuz it doesn't try to flex what Ottoman or you as a player capable of and just do one thing at a time. I always have trouble managing two fronts or keeping up with guides that have too many parts moving at the same time. Its nice and easy to follow

EU4 1.35 Ottomans Guide - The NEW EASIEST WORLD CONQUEST in EU4 We need Oirat buff in 1.36 then

And here i was getting excited for a world conquest

Fantastic, tried to follow this as much as I could and at 1550 was starting to become unstoppable, very clear explanation thanks

34:28 You probably knew this, but you didn't mention it. It is important that YOU siege down Cairo to get the event. So, just like you did, don't call in allies until after you get the siege. It would be really shitty if you called in some ally, you mess up a battle, and your ally sieges down Cairo. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this also is true for vassals, so if you have vassals, tell them to take a nap until after you siege down Cairo.

when red hawk plays the Ottomans its like a magic but when i do play them its like a horror

An England guide would be awesome

For the ones playing after 1.36, it is not stated in the mission reward description, but you *get* claims on Mamluks when you complete the mission that requires conquering Anatolian provinces.

super video, i love your guides and i also like to watch the other formats very often an idea for a slightly different guide would be a kind of "basics", in which you explain basic mechanics that are not self-evident. so not a guide for beginners but for advanced players. for example, in which situation does which army composition make sense? or a few impressions of how you think in situations that occur frequently and which modifiers you then look for in order to make decisions. management of admin/diplo and mil points for example. a bit hard to formulate and probably even harder to summarize in a video, but getting something like that would be worth its weight in gold :)

Would like to see England guide about both path in seperate videos.

I watched the whole video. The gameplay was a little different than other gameplays i saw on RU-vid and the way i play it, it was nice tho. And it's really interesting that Poland or Hungary didn't attack Wallachia, because in my games everytime one of them(mostly Poland) immediately attack Wallachia right after I take Constantinople. 🤔

Why don’t you grant autonomy to the eyalets and call them into your wars? What is the bonuses of annexing them actually? I don’t annex them but if it’s more efficient to annex, pls enlighten me.

Tried out the Ottomans for first time in a while. Spent an hour setting up estates and catching up on the missions and such before unpausing lmao

Finally !

Last time I played the Ottomans, decadence reset after getting the estates to spawn rebels, is that still happening? What's the best way to deal with it?

I miss out on egypt eliyat thing and now i have problem with my governing capacity wich cause me headache because it increase decadance and i need to put my padisha comanding army and always be at war to keep decadance at bay

You can ally Poland just before your initial wars. Allies get less AI and big ally helps you with coalitions

He finally did it. JIHAD

Following this guide, I only have around 3.39 favors with Crimea and with monthly increase of 0.15 favors in May 1447. Also declaring war on most of the Anatolian Beyliks results in Crimea joining the war with them because they are allied.

what dlc adds the new mission tree?

Can you feed eyelets cores like to would would for a vasal?

Dang it…just started trying a Forever Golden run…now maybe I need to try the Otto-bros…I haven’t since 1.35 was launched.

Me when Red Hawk upload ottoman guide: FINALLY!

You had the perfect opportunity to seize the Ragusa and gain another trade city when attacking Epirus

35:56 what do you do if Hungary is in a personal union under another nation you cant get the CB from the mission

I somehow got an heir before the harem event fired who is absolutely terrible, a 0/3/3 so I have been gaining only around 4 admin power the whole time. It's 1480 and I still don't have ideas yet. I haven't gone to war with the Mamluks and they are just snowballing, they've conquered most of Arabia and are now pushing into Iraq/Iran with 63k troops. I am going to try to war them now since I have tech 7 and they're still on tech 6, but if I can't cripple them enough I think my run is over.

Do you have a beginner guide anywhere?

Why did you totally ignore how to deal with the Decadence?

if you take Constantinople as an outside power, does that still lock ottomans out of their mission tree?

Tutorial how the handle the decadence in the late game pls

Hello i want to ask about how he keep his unrest controllable?

Why do you annex your eyelets instead of just leaving them there as a vassal swarm?

Diplo - vassalizing small nations, then turn them into eyalets and don't take up a diplo-slot? Is that a valid strategy?

Is it normal that the CB on Hungary doesn't work when they are the junior partner of Austria (or another country)

Strongest first age ability is definitely transfer subject

Do England next

I’m following this guide but by 1456 I got coalitions from each the west and the east already. Any tips?

Next Guide: Venice or Aragon

Cries in internal power struggle

finallyyyy

Please do an England guide

I am new to this game I guess I don't have the same version as i cannot get the Janissaries? So should I just recruit the normal infantry?

more Anbennar please!

Make a guide for Mamluks or Aragon plz

It's much better to wait for Urban he's a 50% morale advisor super worthy

Burgundy or Switzerland guide would be awesome! I’m always really bad at knowing what ideas to pick when

I only played Mamluks into Rûm because I'm scared of decadence

So I tried following this guide and I ended up with -10 ducats a month even after I took the gold source, and felt I was way too locked up in debt and losing money to be able to keep going, any ideas on what I did wrong and how to avoid it in the future?

Jannisery: hello there

Actually bro they are really hard to do world conquest. First you do have the subjesct bonuses, pashas and so on. But the decandence is kinda hard. You need 3 mil and 2 admin idea groups to win it. Then youfight half a mil of jannisary troups . And that is not the only thing . With decadence high ideas are 100 percent more . So its 800 per idea. Than you need ti have a ruller with more than 15 stats to pass the reforms.. so early to mid game otto-easy mid to late game otto-hard

Why are Hungary and Tunis not changing color like Mamluks? Is it bug or is it supossed to be like this?

do a ck2 guide on ottomans

It was pretty normal until i realised he conquered half of the map in 60 years?! Just 60!!! What ?!!!

Hey Red Hawk, you said you would explain later why not taking more from the Mammluks in the first war than just the 6 Provinces, i waited for that explenation but nothing came :-) in my run i took zyprus and money + the 6 Provinces mentioned. does your version simply make the truce shorter ?

What graphics mod is this? Looks very good

I didn’t give the jannisaries any privileges but later on the game forced me to pick between four that I felt all had bad side effects. So give them something so you can decide which ones.

he reached %90 of ottoman borders in just 60 years

Bro, how do you make that money? I always go bancrupt

Just finished a run recently with the Mamluks in extended timeline and restored the caliphate and conquered pretty much all of Europe and the east up to india, i thought mamluks were powerful but it seems the ottomans and stupidly overpowered

Uhhh I never got the ottoman invasion CB on Hungary for some reason

Core Elliot

Dont take jannisary missions in the start, you will need jannisary loyalyt in age of abso

My aggressive expansion seems to be way higher than in this video.

Fact: Yavuz Sultan Selim took whole middle east and Egypt in 8 years.

next guide England plss

One thing I like to do as the Ottomans is to warn Hungary once I get big enough to do so. This will stop them from invading Wallachia and Serbia.

Instead of deleting the Jannisaries why not spawn them all in the same province and merge them later on

Hungary got partitioned by bohemia, poland, and wallachia after i defeat them for some bosnian and serbian provinces. 😔

*This guide transformed me from the first day I played Ottomans to being absolute dogwater, to becoming the guy everyone hates in our multiplayer campaigns because of how powerful I have become*

I need a Brittany guide.

Pls granada guide.

Byzantium guide pls

Why pop out Morocco?

epirus was allied with hungary

How many times have you rolled for such start? and you really bought that Leviatan DLC just to curry favour? :)

Why take Admin ideas and never core land yourself?

Songhai plz

"We need manpower" >Deletes regiments💀

What can be worse than starting with a diplo...

Austria didnt PU Hungary in your game if they do you cant make eyalet on hungary or conquer balkans so easy becouse of AE

Lol Hawk big mistake deleting the Jannissaries. You should just have consoidated them. It would cost you less money/manpower to reinforce that way.

Ottos OP

Mamluk AI is awful. I’ve played the ottoman sultanate a few times over various patches and they will just let you besiege them uncontested

Why does no ottoman guide address decadence? You made an hour guide just to explain the opening...

I am in the 1.36.2 and for some reason i can't recruit the janissanies at the start of the game. Someone know why is happening?

Looks like it got harder in EU4 King of Kings. First of all the money is non existent and is not profit, you die because of loans even with conquest. Second, your admin efficiency is trash, i mean, is all rebellions or being 5 levels behind the other normal powers in admin tech trying to have all in order and "normal". Agressive expansion even with a few provinces is a problem, not like in the video. Third military is not used to be strong as it used to be, you easily have a lot of casualties which was not like that before, and sometimes it leads to even hiring mercenaries that at the same time economically kills ur nation. Mamluks also are a lot harder to take. I'm quite of new, yes. But i remember this being so much easier before. If you have any idea of how could i improve i would appreciate it.

"Elayet" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

37:00 Your distinction between the two types of eyalets is incorrect. Non-core eyalets can be called into wars and generally have _less_ liberty desire than core eyalets, since they compare your military power only to themselves, rather than to themselves and other subjects. Core eyalets can't be called into wars and generally have more liberty desire, since they compare your military power to themselves and other non-eyalet subjects, but they can be annexed for 6 diplo points per dev, rather than the usual 8 diplo/dev for regular vassals.

For me later 1:55