posted 02-24-07 12:19 PM EDT (US)
This strategy revolves around combining 4 powerful elements of the ottoman civ into one, creating a force so overpowered that not even prowler spam can beat it. Keep in mind, this will work against other civs as well as vs iroquois, but it's much easier to win vs iros because they seem incapable of producing large amounts of cavalry. This is a sort of Fast Fortress into spamming pure abus guns backed by shipments. That's right, pure abus guns. Contrary to popular belief, forest prowlers will not beat pure abus guns, but will, in fact, be massacred quicker than the russians in WWI Add in a few merc cavalry shipments, some falcs, and you have yourself one dead iroquois player. (Standard Otto Discovery) Age with 400 wood, etc etc etc. -Shift 4 vills to gold, keep the rest on food. Once you have 300 gold, shift all your gold vills to food as well. -Ship Click age up no later than 5:45, preferably around 5:30 (or sooner if you got any food treausres). Use the 4 abus gun politician. -Ship -Once the trade route upgrade is complete, set your 2 TP's to wood Now heres where the build order varies a bit. If you can get more TP's, then use the wood from the trade route on them first. If not, build a foundry as soon as you accumulate 300 wood. -Build as many houses as you can, preferably having at least 60 pop available shortly after reaching fortress Once you feel you have enough housing and your foundry and TP's have been completed, set the TP's to gold. This will be used for abus guns, and Mamelukes. You should arrive in fortress before 7:30. Your iroquois opponent will hit fort at a similar time, if not around 7:00. Prepare for some prowler spam ASAP. -Build 5 abus guns Once you have ~15 abus and your 5 hussars, start walking around and sniping prowlers. If he's being really aggressive, stay more defensive until your next shipment arrives. -Ship This will be your second fortress shipment. In many games you will have to stall your abus production to have enough gold for these to arrive in a timely manner. When they arrive, wreck havok on your iroquois foe. He will likely have an army of 5 cuirs, a lot of prowlers, and perhaps a tom shipment by now. Focus fire your abus on his cuirs, and slow them down with your mamelukes. Once these are handled, move back and get your mamelukes into a good flanking position. If he's camping behind some great houses, just stay back for a while until you have a larger force. -Ship These will augment your forces nicely. Once you have some spare wood, upgrade your abus to veteran status. YOu should be swimming in gold by now with your trade route providing much of it. Once you have another 1000 gold... -Ship These should be the final nail in the coffin for any iroquois player. Just remember to attack him from multiple directions, and you're set. Abus + Merc cav own prowlers so hard it's not funny. So there you have it, the best anti-iro strat there is for any civ IMO. The only thing he can do to stop it is spamming pure kanya horses, but who does that? The great thing about this strat is that you don't make a single jannisary the whole game! So after you're finished raping him, gladly say "Hahaha noob, I didn't even have to use jan + abus to beat you!" Questions? Comments? Feel free to post them. Hopefully someday I will get blue in QS and a game will actually be recorded [This message has been edited by xMatt the Greatx (edited 02-24-2007 @ 01:55 PM).]
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-Collect age up wood
-Build a second TP and upgrade the trade route
-Collect the 700 gold
-Move 4 vills to wood, 5 to food, and the rest on gold
-Set TC waypoint to gold
-Ship 5
-Build more abus guns
If he camps behind 3 GH TC's, feel free to set the trade route to food, ship 1300 gold, and go to industrial. Mortar spam will quickly remove any TC's he has from the map.
