I Have 87% Win Rate With This Fast Imperial Strat 

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Recently played a 8 men FFA game and one of the guys literally had a pure great bombard army + bunch of Castles he used to "agressively defend" himself against 4 players and killed half the lobby with it.

Where can i find these opponents that let me simcity for 20 min?

The Malian player did the same mistage the HRE player did in that one Salami Video, and that is he stopped making units. You dont need to be in imp, your dont need culverin or roller shutter trigger spingals, you just need springals, 5 to be exactly to one shoot a great bombard. You kill the Great bombard befor it is ready to shoot. Just never stopp making units in age 3, burn down the Militry Schools and its gg for you. With Militry Schools alone, he can never outnumber you, if you just let him stay and build up an amry of free units you lose, going up to imp means you have to stopp making units, then you need to make techs or culverin, by that time he already has multiple great bombards and an amry to protect them.

27:00 COW ATTACK 🤣These cows seal the deal for me.

Oh no.. I RUINED DRONGO AFTER ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD DAM OTTOMAN IMPERIAL

Been using this build love it . Any advice on the variation of this build to defend against a feudal rush from French knights or English . I’m thinking of just assigning more villas to wood instead of gold to pump out some defense while going to castle behind it. Any advice ?

Honestly the mistakes made and how close to death this was just show even better how good Otto's are

Goodness gracious, that's powerful. In a certain moment there you had only 17 villagers and 102 (ONE HUNDRED AND TWO!!!) troops! That's absolutely insane. And also it shows the power of siege + handcanoneers. Rus with springalds, mangonels and, yes, bombards (for which Rus has unique improvements) surrounded by a small, but sufficiently numerous, detachment of Streltsy also decimate opponents. Three or four bombards destroy enemy buildings, four or five springalds destroy enemy springalds and mangonels, and two or three mangonels kill massed enemy units. Then the streltsy just defends the siege surrounding it and staying still, since it has improved attack rate AND an insane melee damage (I think it's 60) when units come closer. Your other units will be there just to disrupt more of the enemy's attempt to destroy your siege. Well, I can see this works amazingly well for Ottomans too, but in a totally different level. Thanks for the video!

Ok if the Great Bomard is good, why didn't MarineLord, Beasty, Bee and Lucifron basically NEVER use it in ANY of the last competitive matches?? Several went to Imp

I just want a game where I don't get attacked for 13 mins, and when I do it's 8 weak units

Drongo, do you ever end up using the vizier point that allows you to train knights and janissaries out of the military schools?

If this strategy is so great why MarineLord, Beasty etc never use it? Because it’s 100% impossible in real high level

I think you would have been in even more of a pickle when he was in your base. If your opponent focused on taking out all the houses and military buildings then you wouldn't have been able to print units until you got more wood. With 8 vils left even having the MIA isn't going to save you from the next wave. He was trying to LM snipe you which I think was his mistake.

I've used this build to make 60 Great Bombards in a ranked game and just posted a video about it! Thank you Aussie Drongo

im nab plat 1 player but beasty thought us u select middle infantryman in group for mangonels to do magic. yet i love u drongo great content

It’s not the strategys that wins games or rank you up. It’s how good we multi-task and how fast. I can never get out of gold with just this strategy, i have to learn all the other stuff and do them faster.

this strat works well when you have A.I. Easy against like orange

Oh my, this replay was killing me inside

Drongo, would you recommend a beginning player to play Ottomans instead of Chinese? I used to be pretty good at aoe2, but the Chinese in aoe4 are hard to play. I do think it's the most fun civ for me though. I'd like to improve myself as a player no matter the civ though.

Top players quite simply never (I mean NEVER) use the Great Bombard in competitive games worth $$$. After patch no change, because it's still super weak. Simple as that

Why Ottoman? What about England?

i tried this and won against a guy who needed one win to go Conqueror 1 and he flamed me :D . Another guy got confused on how i was able to keep up and win. When game finished he had almost in all resources double mine.

MEGA LIKE BRO. IS EPIC WAR ;)

lol malian 100% won the game - he just needed to focus schools - he made a mistake - thats the only reason you survived

Hey Drongo, thanks for that. i can say it works :-) could defend myself vs 2 Plat player one Mongol and 1 Malians..... he great Bombars are INSANE :.) I love them. more than the Elephants from Dehli :-)

stone first for military schools , smart

anychance the build order imgur is incomplete?

Do the 1st landmark must be with bushes? Isn't the 2nd option which gives you 28 golds per minute for each trader better?

nice game!! fantastic!

2-in-1 guide and fun replay. Love it

does it still ''work'' as of this day ?

why twin madressa if the whole army is free isnt trade network better for the gold and then use farms and hunts for food?

Thats absurd... lol :D Nice Game!

Does this stuff work or has it changed now?

In most of the games I play the enemy will rush at feudal/castle. How do you defend against that?

6:00 what?

cool game

Impressive 🤟

all he had to do was build rams which he didnt for some reason...

Anyone have a link to an opener to use against english longbow rush.. this opener doesn't work at all when ur new lol.

and they say bombards are useless

15min imperial wtf?

Look very strong ,maybe Need a Little buff.

How do you heal with imams?

土豆哥？Brother potato？

This game is so addictive 🥰

after seeing this I would say you should have a nerf to ottomans

How do you do tc hop ??

dear drongo, what if the opponent all-ins you in feudal?

Amazing display of civ strength😊

path finding is a joke in this game, melee units get stuck that's why u win lol

Had some success with ottomans as well, but im wondering, how do you counter aggression if people just rush you down? With ottomans at least you have some units out due to schools, but theres the risk of something like a royal knight + archer feudal push from french, mass men at arms from hre as soon as they pop age 3 before youd have mangonels, and just as annoying you get english longbows age 2 which will snipe vills and any military you have cause they outrange towers and get dangerously close to your tc, denying you any gathering. When playing other civs you dont get your free training either, so its even harder to keep up with numbers.

Hey Drongo, can you talk a bit about the pros and cons of walling in in this build order? You seem pretty strapped for wood/surplus stone and I can't tell if walling would have given value.

only in this game can the line " sofas killing mangos" mean something thats not insane.

Drongo OP

This is almost the same build order I have been using since the Ottomans came out. I’m too slow to do anything more than an AI match though. Good to mix in Jans

That was a pretty sketchy game. Down to 5 vills in Imp is not a guide I want to be following lmfao!

Drongo, i love your build! personally i prefer to play this with 2tc.. feudal age up with 2 and gather stone+wood meanwhile. i manage everytime to get up to imperial under 14 minutes. While having 5 Military schools + blacksmith up! AND i go for early Wheelbarrow asap when i reach feudal. What do you think about this? (i am a Diamond player so i think you could do it even better)

There is no strategy while playing with Ottomans. We only rely on military schools which is so lame and boring.

First thing you should ram is that mehmed imperial armory landmark because thats where the bombard pops out you need to delay that bombard mass as long as you can, so do age 2 ram push into age 3 MAA +archers for the jans

11:12 bro forgets to pick up the relic

Love watching drongo play!!

You are realy bad gamer 😂😂

I am fully believe that Ottoman isn't trash anymore. Thanks Drongo

That was hell of a match But u made a loooot of mistakes 😐

With the patreon is it live face to face coaching?. And how would I submit videos?. Because I’m interested in possible doing it

Drongo’s account 土豆哥 literally means “Brother potato” lol

My men clear the berries so quick how did you sustain it so well xD The sheep?

interesting. In theory, it seems very weak. It has little specific research and almost no economic advantage compared to other nations.

Doesn't this get countered with blade55555's anti fast imperial strategy? He has a video on his channel where he demonstrates it against HRE fast imperial. The moment after the initial slaughtering of the villagers the enemy builds siege and trebs you down from a distance. He will have always more units because he stayed castle.

Great video to show the power of free units, thx that you picked this close game!

Ottomans still need a buff, also he should stick to just being a commentator not a player

That was absolutely absurd lol. If you hadn't lost all those vils too imagine how insane the army value would have been. I'm actually blown away lol.

You know the little one is sleeping when Drongo does not blast your speakers with the intro XD

Thanks for the guide! Btw i think imgur link doesn't work

gotta nerf the ottomans! how quickly the tide has turned...

what the hell. how did you win this with only 10 vills in imperial XD XD

you are the Sultan now

Lmao, Drongo saw Corvinus throw his Jannisaries away without covering them with great bombards so he decides to show him how it's really done. Feels so wrong that a civ can win when down to 5 villagers but free units are pretty good.

Damn the turkbot got quiet with this one

why potato bro

Let's go with 馬鈴薯哥 next time Drongo! it's a better way

ffs my last 3 fights were verse this ottoman fast imperial. Every noob under the sun is relying on it now and we have to wait for it to be patched

Remember when Drongo hosted not one but two FFA tournaments with special rules called "Everyone Should Play Like Szalami?" Drongo is just continuing this tradition. Everyone SHOULD play like Corvinus because it's cool.

This is like an aoe4 version of fast fortress to falc shipment LOL

Honestly this just makes me think of how age of mythology had a button to repeat the current build Que.

Where are the buff ottoman people at?

naah i dont think this will be a thing at pro level ... kinda how hre fast imp was a thing everywhere, but not at the pros, the pros will punish you ... also ottoman is 1 of the best feudal fighting civs so mosts pros will see to win it in feudal or early castle ... but it is a funny build tho

I feel sorry for all the lower level guys who will be trying this strat in anything but conq.. They will be utterly destroyed before they reach castle xD It's a fun strat, don't get me wrong, but it's a huge gamble for lower leagues where people who play against Ottoman are fed up with early rushes so they pre-emptively rush Otto themselves to get the upperhand (English/abba) and therefore this strat is useless.. unless it's high level play in conq where people usually tend to make a few units and never go an early all-in.

I do think Ottomans could use a slight adjustment, and that is removing Fast Training, the level 3 Vicier technology. Replace it with something else, as for right now every Ottoman build just feels like you wanting to go extra military school and then make them produce faster too. I think it's boring, and I think the Vicier technologies shouldn't be so entwined with one another. You will never go one without the other and that's my problem with it.

Now a video on how to counter it

I played with the Ottomans yesterday in a skirmish against the Mongols [AI]. The Ottoman gameplay, i.e. going into fast Imperial, is straightforward and allows for a lot of versatility when building up a military force, without the need to heavily invest into the economy. And then you can go in with your large (and free!) army to crush any opposition at your leisure!

i wonder what it's like vs HRE because they can cut you off of relics

"siege dance" We all have AoE3 living in our heads

I'm not sure whether I should be a fan of this or not

I open the exact same way but use the vil building the military school to gold after instead of rallying one out there

Thank you!

I need to see the timeline

you speak chinese?