None of your neighbours can compete with your troopcount anyway, so make sure what you have is superior in quality instead of hoarding more quantity. What you really want is defensive, for the huge morale bonus it provides. Quantity is really the one military idea you need least. Omg Ironman mode makes me so TENSE, every tiny move must be throughly calculated Therefore, i'm planning to let the national missions interface guide me from now on and play more peacefully. I like to turtle and amass money in order to become rich. In any strategy games i play, be it Civilization or Total war, i don't like to be agressive. Analyzing the Ottomans, i think it's a good idea to choose Quantity ,religious and naval ideas (historical purpose). I like to choose ideas which stack to my nation's traits. The very moment serbia became occupied with Bosnia, i immediatly declared war on Byzantium and took Constantinopla. annexed all weaklings without allies and vassalized the remainders which i have cores. right from the start the game urges you to take Albania, and so i did.

Can someone give me a feedback of what i 'm doing? Now, i'm playing my first ironman as the Ottomans. The first i played as Portugal on easy and became a super-duper power and won the first place ( i savescummed a lot, i mean, A LOOOOT).

Europa universalis 4 ottoman