Something like this:
Dock Units:
Being in a landlocked region makes finding a navy very difficult, but the Uzbek Khanates did include the Aral and Caspian Seas, so they would have had access to at least some ships.
Fishing Boat
They had access to fishing in the Aral and Caspian Seas so fishing vessels are perfectly reasonable.
These were rafts consisting of a wood and reed base atop several inflated animal skins. They were used in the river networks of Central Asia as cargo barges, troop transports, and even makeshift pontoon bridges. These could act as a weaker but more numerous Galeon equivalent that trains and transports units. Since they are constructed mainly from hides, a large portion of their cost should be food.
Camel Boat
Camel Boats consisted of two large boats joined together into a catamaran. They were named as such because of their heavy lifting capacity (just like a camel). These could do the heavy lifting of the Uzbek navy and act as a scaled down Frigate equivalent.
Galley
Uzbekistan borders large seas like the Caspian where proper ships are needed and these could be represented by the existing Galley unit. Turkmen pirates were enough of an issue that Persia needed to construct a naval fleet on the Caspian so the Uzbeks would have presumably had something similar.
A type of Turkmen pirate vessel that raided the Caspian Sea . This could be a separate ship type, but since the source material is so limited, I think it would be best as a card that shipped Privateers and some Turkmen units like Qizilbash.
Foreign Ships
Russia brought a significant naval presence to the area with the Caspian Flotilla and Aral Flotilla . The Persians also had their Northern Fleet in the Caspian. A tech that gives access to foreign ships like Monitors would be a good way to complete the Uzbek navy.
There’s a really good paper on Kazakh watercraft that covered Mes Sal and Camel boats (unfortunately what I linked is now broken) and I don’t see any reason those would not fit for the other steppe peoples like Uzbeks. Haven’t really looked into the Afghans, but the Durrani empire did reach the Indian Ocean at its height so they could use whatever kinds of boats are used by coastal Pakistanis.
Also I did find more info on what Ogurtjoy are. It’s a coastal Turkman tribe that engaged in piracy and there’s an island named after them .
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