Talk:Ottomans/@comment-36.70.116.165-20161024065808

The problem is the Ottoman has a rough start. Free settlers do help with your food problems, which is important because they lack archaic trash units and thus need to collect gold early. That doesn't make it easy either since at colonial age Janissaries can be easily swarmed by more cost effective anti infantry units like Crossbows, Macehualtins, Yumis, Strelets, etc and you may probably want to get natives early just for this purpose. Only at Castle Age they can toss out more of their unique units and even the odds.