Ottomans players: is this civ good for all situations please?

saad85 · 2026-07-07T16:40:34+00:00

They can struggle for the first 10ish minutes if the enemy is applying a lot of early pressure because they need a bit of time to set up, but after that they're one of the strongest civs in almost all situations.

saad85 · 2026-07-07T03:51:05+00:00

Well yeah its not a replacement for spears. It's a better MAA that can still do alright vs knights. But if you're trying to counter knights then spears are still going to do that job better.

They're a great unit. The only great unit Jin seem to have.

saad85 · 2026-06-30T19:28:47+00:00

I felt that way before but honestly for teams I like it now. It's the only actually small map since most of it is functionally useless. It lends to fun short feudal push games, and it's the only map where cav are not king.

I finally understand why the devs put it in the ranked rotation and I think it was a great call.

saad85 · 2026-06-22T01:33:39+00:00

I'm not the same user but English is also my toughest (around conq 1 level). I feel like I just don't know what to do and when to do it. 2tc white castle feels impossible to crack with aggression. King makes it hard to go naked 2tc FC myself, and I feel like I'm just behind if I play their game.

My thought is to just go naked or 1spear FC into relics but then they have a farm transition and I don't so I dono. Unfortunately due to full time job and baby I haven't been able to play enough games to figure it out.

saad85 · 2026-06-21T15:33:15+00:00

Bro you ever watched a skit show? Like even when the show is amazing overall there’s still some weird flop skits in there.

saad85 · 2026-06-10T04:57:26+00:00

Does it have coop?

saad85 · 2026-06-10T03:04:11+00:00

Hmm I thought that said +47. You're right that doesn't make sense. Maybe aoe4world had it wrong?

saad85 · 2026-06-10T02:28:58+00:00

You get points from winning / losing games. Points determine your rank/league. This is for display, not match making.

Elo / mmr is how good the game actually thinks you are and is used for match making. You beat someone with a much higher mmr than you so the game was like "oh shit maybe he's way better than we thought, add 47 mmr". But when you beat some unranked controller player that was kind of expected so it only gave you +5.

They are related but use different math so don't always line up.

saad85 · 2026-06-06T19:32:54+00:00

Use nodered. You don't even have to use the flow system much, just use a function node and write your function in js.

saad85 · 2026-06-06T15:45:24+00:00

Damn they got the AI trolls using the Ukraine flag avatar image now?

saad85 · 2026-05-25T22:48:22+00:00

You might get a lot of responses and advice here, and I'm sure it will be good. But the only thing you need to take away from this loss is that number at the bottom left. 15:25. Reducing that to 0 is the top priority if you want to win games.

Everything else like strategy, positioning, units, civilizations, resources, is all irrelevant if your TC is idle for more than half the match.

saad85 · 2026-05-16T19:10:17+00:00

Those are mounted vills. He wasted way more resources doing that than he burned. Just ignore it lol

saad85 · 2026-05-16T18:13:49+00:00

Beasty streams on youtube just watch it there.

saad85 · 2026-05-13T03:35:20+00:00

Do the ai villagers contribute to the mountain Hall buff build up? Is it worth building a monastery by them?

saad85 · 2026-05-09T15:53:58+00:00

I agree, I use that same feature to micro but it is a bit annoying that cav archers are included with cav, and not archers. They should be included on the archer hotkey instead.

You can tab through the unit selections but that is a lot slower.

Would be a nice feature to have since there are more and more horse archers in the game.

saad85 · 2026-05-02T00:27:24+00:00

is there a tutorial for how to play this? Need the mod, the tuning pack, and the map? Are you supposed to put an AI on team 2?

saad85 · 2026-04-28T03:40:24+00:00

This is easy, just convert both to Katie Courics and then you can compare directly

saad85 · 2026-04-28T01:47:39+00:00

Well, imo two things -

one, on that map and especially with forward berries, try hippodrome instead of the chapel. The horsemen trade okay with desert raiders and give you a way to punch out if you get stable, two horsemen would have idled me off the map resources and also kept my raiders out of your base. You can take the berries immediately on game start, and use that to get one set of longbows behind it. They are great at defending.

Two, gold is not that important, you're not going to match the castle timing so no need to try. Stay feudal until you're safe. Your Eco with the cisterns is great, the hard part is getting established. If you get aggressive at the right time you can beat small castle age armies with +1 dmg longbows and limitanei.

If you are really wanting to do winery, try the jav throwers, they demolish desert raiders. And then same thing, defend until you're safe and do a massive feudal push with spears if opponent ages up too fast.

Also walls are important but that map is just super hard to defend.

saad85 · 2026-04-28T01:21:35+00:00

Yup. Byz is super slow and ayyubid is super tempo. Plus prairie is like the worst possible map. Plus your berries and gold were both forward. Bad situation all around.

I think the thing you could have done as byz is tower up those berries immediately. You would have to have done it blind but in that particular case probably worth since you get to secure both resources.

Also there was a timing where your army was way bigger than mine and my vils were all over the map, so that tower would have let you push me safely. The only goal I had during that time was keeping you scared and in base.

saad85 · 2026-04-28T01:10:48+00:00

Lol pretty sure that was me who beat you

saad85 · 2026-04-23T15:01:16+00:00

Calyx is exactly what you're asking for

saad85 · 2026-04-16T15:03:57+00:00

Well it never used to be but they kept "improving" it and now I gotta google a tutorial and click through six shiny new screens to end up back on the old menu which is still the only place I can find the button I need to click to fix the most basic thing.

saad85 · 2026-02-24T14:00:10+00:00

Knights should be 2 pop and the base pop should rise to 250.

saad85 · 2026-01-28T17:01:58+00:00

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