[OTTOMANS] What victory type?

[jdolan98]

I've been playing Earth/Terra a lot lately and have been trying a ton of different civs (Inca has been best so far) and i stumbled across suleiman, I read over there kit and it seems...Decent? i guess. I dont really know I'm still a noob to this game lol so im wondering what type of victory i should go for with these guys abd tips would be nice




size huge with 12 players
terra
slow
24 city states
(anything else needed for more help comment)

 

[TheRH100]

It says on the civ 5 wiki that science is a preferred victory, but you could go for mid game domination when the sipahi is available or late game when the janissary is available.

 

[Matthew.]

They are a solid domination Civ. Janissary heal a ton of health on kills, and they come after Uni's so you don't need to gimp yourself trying to use them, like sword UU's. They are also great on the seas. Most of what you "steal" is junk, but the AI will target their own stolen ship instead of yours, which keeps yours at full health while in enemy territory. Use them as decoys.

Sipahi is meh. A couple to use as scouts can be helpful and the free pillage can allow you to get off some free hits, but overall Janissary are much better.

 

[ilik]

Domination. You probably want to build plenty of melee naval units, and their two unique units are agressive ones.

 

[VicRatlhead5199]

Not sure they have an advantage in anything other than domination. Nice thing is they're awesome on land and sea. Most civs are either one or the other but not these guys. I like to train a couple triremes early and let them go out and reproduce with barbs. You'll wind up with a lot of caravels but you can zerg attack other civs with them to get better ships. Use the sipahi as decoys razing tiles on one front while attacking with janissaries on another front. It's a pretty potent tactic. Go wide building infrastructure until the Renaissance then once you have astronomy and gunpowder unleash havoc on anyone who's been irritating you.

 

[MantaRevan]

Domination is the only thing the Ottomans can do effectively. It's a shame that such an interesting and culturally significant civ is confined to a particularly small military niche. I guess you could do WC since it's basically an economic victory and the ottomans get a small financial bonus with naval maintenance, but that's a stretch.