1+2=3 (wtf?)
1+2+3 = 6 (whats your point?)
1+2+3...+9+10= 55, (hmmm)
1+2+3...+14+15 = 120 (mmmk.. but what this got to do with ottoman?)
What do ottoman complain the most about their civ?
"crap on maps with no water and no tp"
why?
"eco is crap"
ok. but why?
"vils train too slow, vil count too low"
really?
....enters the NWNT (pronounced nawnt)fast fortress, i think you know what "NWNT" means by now.
The first vil train speed upgrade is the best of the lot, it only cost 300 food and it takes off 8 seconds off each vil. it may not sound much but you have to realise it also means every next vil, is 8 seconds faster plus all the time you have saved before.
this is where the math at the top matters.
consider if you had this upgrade at the point where you had your 10th vils, how much benefit you you get out of it until the 25th vil?
120 x 8 = 960 VS, and this is only for the first 10 minutes.
thats about 770 food, 650 gold, or 480 wood.
"but it takes a lone time to pay back"
maybe, maybe not. its negative impact is very minimal because you do it while you fast fortress, you generally have to wait for your 700 gold anyway.
you get it paid back somewhere after the 10th "faster vil", from there on it is pure profit.
"but it needs a mosque"
you have been given a good 400 wood at the start of the game for this very purpose.
"Whaaat? you are telling me to build a mosque at AGE1!!!? are you a noob? it is the ultimate tried and true ottoman fact that building mosque in age1 is BAD"
what exactly are you going to use it for then? you cant build TP or dock, you realise if you dont use it, it just sits there and devalues. most likely you will keep it until age2. by which time it would have depreciated immensely.
bulding mosque will speed up your first shipment by 20 seconds, you get quite a bit res out of that too.
"you are not suggesting we get that vil train time upgrade in age1 are you?"
no i am not, you get it during aging. it usually completes while the 10th vils is being made, at 3:00.
this means you get the full amount of that 920 VS bonus i promised you as early as 13:00, even faster if you boom with second TC as soon as you hit fortress.
but what is truly amazing about the mosque is that you can get spys. this is extremely powerful for against the natives and civs who rely a lot on their explorer.
"ok, i still dont get it"
Alright, here is what i do:
- build a mosque and 2~3 houses in age1, send gold trickle card, age up 400 wood.
- after mosque built, GET A SPY, KILL THE ENEMY EXPLORER/WC, take all the cows on painted desert, take all the treasures on orinico.
- get the first vil train time upgrade as soon as you have another 300 food.
- build a barrack(or foundry) with aging wood to speed up shipment, if second shipment was ready because you got some XP treasure then dont bother. either way send 700 gold and FF.
- from there on its just a normal ottoman FF, except it is slightly faster than normal due to 700 gold arriving ealier than usual and my eco grows 17% faster. Oh, and i havent even touched my mines.
I played a few games with this approach, lost a few because spanish is till too damn good, and won a few which i think are largely contributed by my "better than before" frotress speed and economy.
DECK
a Janissary orientated deck, for against spanish
a Abus Gun orientated deck, for against dutch I guess one could argue i would have won both even if i did not use this approach, personally i felt empowered by my eco a lot better during the game, which given me more confidence , secondly I was in a position where if the game dragged on for another 10 minutes i would have done OK because of my matching eco. with my eco I was able to locally produced most of my jans, their build XP in turn got me shipments pretty quick as well. only 4 OP abus guns involved. after the big battle he resigned - might as well because i got 2 falcs arriving and was about to break his wall and the fort-being-built. i have since included 700 wood, two towers and IB in my deck. maybe i should have 700 food and CM as well. I killed his WC 3 times! fat 300 xp and all the treasures. without his WC he was definitely slower, despite my several mistakes i still managed to [This message has been edited by ultimitsu (edited 03-08-2007 @ 03:50 AM).]
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