Venetia, Galicia & Podolia, Rumelia, Austria, Persia, Chechenya-Dagestan, Hungaryīe the nation attaining the highest prestige raiting at the end of the year 1799.Ĭapture and hold 45 regions by the end of the year 1799, including the regions shown. Rumelia, Persia, Austria, Galicia & Podolia, Poland, Venetia, Morocco, Chechenya-Dagestan, Spain, HungaryĬapture and hold 20 regions by the end of the year 1799, including the regions shown. Venetia, Galicia & Podolia, Rumelia, Austria, Persia, Chechenya-Dagestan, HungaryĬapture and hold 30 regions by the end of the year 1799, including the regions shown. And to the east, the route to India offers the chance of riches.Ĭapture and hold 20 regions by the end of the year 1750, including the regions shown. Control of the Mediterranean would allow a Sultan to do as he pleases with the smaller European powers. The camera pans across a poised army as my boisterous general gives a fiery speech about honor and victory, and I'm transported back to the. There may even be valuable allies to be found among Austria’s rivals: the authority of the Pope to stop his European flock making treaties with infidels is all but gone. A shiny recreation that still feels long in the tooth. Strategically, the Empire is in a potentially strong position: the Balkans are a natural bastion to defend Istanbul, and a possible springboard for conquest into central Europe. If you do decide to go to war against other islamic factions, they are usually isolated from their allies enough to as to make it a 1 on 1 fight. Assuming that you are playing vanilla, you are safely snuggled away on the corners of the maps, with plenty of rebel cities to conquer. The army and navy look old fashioned compared to those of some states, but the soldiers of the Sultan are numerous indeed. In the middle east, you also have alot more space to manuever. On the upside, not all diplomacy is like that. This, regrettably, makes every Rome campaign all about eating Africa all the way to Spain.

The fucking scripting for the Punic wars means Carthage wont even consider peace until they have like two cities left in Spain.

The Ottomans face challenges but within these are great opportunities. So youve found what I think is the one flaw in an otherwise perfect mod. Turkish expansionism has always been a part of palace politics: when a Sultan has felt secure at home he has attacked Europe when a Sultan has felt threatened by his Janissary military commanders, he has sent them to attack.

In living memory, Turkish armies have reached the gates of Vienna, Austria, only to be turned back by the steadfast defenders. This Turkish, Islamic empire supplanted the Orthodox Byzantine Empire in the 15th Century and since then it has had a continuing, if not always whole-hearted, ambition to expand further westwards into the heart of Europe. The Ottomans also have power over the whole of the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. Ottoman power is unmatched in its extent and grandeur, straddling the traditional trade route between Europe and Asia. The history of Europe over the last centuries can be seen as the history of the Ottoman Empire and a few annoying, small nations that thwarted Ottoman ambitions.

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