Considering that the Ottomans so far, have one unique tech, what ideas of other unique techs do you have for the Ottomans?
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They have the whole vizier panel. The first two ottoman things I go for are the monk vizier which is basically a tech upgrade to monks, and the mehter one which upgrades mehters. Siege vizier to tech up siege, then 2-3 upgrades to military academies if you have the patience for those.
They have at least two that I can think of. Although one is just a Jannisary damage buff.
The Vizier bonuses are basically unique techs though. All but one have permanent benefits.
Ottomans dont have unique tecs. Gb are easy to destroy so Gb hp up techs would be good. and making cannon time should be lowered as Ottomans have the lateast siege tec, Ottomans are siege civ. I also dont understand that why does Rus have unique siege, cannon tecs but Ottomans dont. At PUB ottomans are so releated with ms but this is so wrong. Ottomans are famous for siege, cannon, navy, sipahi and jans. Also sipahi and jans dont have unique tecs. I dont see about Ottomans navy tecs. Ottomans navy is one the best at its age.
there sholud be a +2.5 range for janissary
I think the vizier panel should be completely shipments. Each of the shipments selected on vizier points panel should unlock shipment buttons in the landmark town center. These shipments can be used multiple times but have a long cooldown (5 to 15 min depending on shipment).
The numbers in the shipments are only there to give some idea, so they’re most likely not balanced. Also the numbers of units shipped increase as you advance through ages. Dark & Feudal age are treated the same in this case. Their names might also suck. 
eg. 8 sheep in dark & feudal, 10 sheep in castle age, and 12 sheep in imperial age, etc.
Tier 1
- Anatolian Hills: Ship 8-12 sheep at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Akinji Raids: Ship 3-5 villagers at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Friday Prayers: Ship 2-4 imams at landmark town center depending on current age.
Tier 2
- Azap Conscription: Ship 3-6 spearmen and 3-6 archers at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Mehteran: Ship 2-4 mehter at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Tımar System: Ship 4-8 sipahi at landmark town center depending on current age.
Tier 3
- Devshirme: Ship 6-8 janissary at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Kapıkulu Troops: Ship 1-3 men at arms and 1-3 knights at landmark town center depending on current age.
- Orban’s Work: Ship 1 great bombard. Only in castle & imperial age.
The upgrades currently in vizier system could be made unique techs with appropriate cost and research time.
- Field Work: Move to mosque, only adds aoe heal to imams.
- Trade Bags: Move to market. Can add anatolian hills’ +10% mining part to this one.
- Mehter Drums: Move to stables, only adds 15% movement speed aura to mehter.
- Siege Crews: Move to siege workshop, unlock at imperial age.
- Military Campus, Fast Training & Advanced Academy: Move to blacksmith or university.
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Considering that the Vizier is basically like several unique technologies, perhaps at least only one or two more unique technologies can be given to the Ottomans unless the Vizier is already powerful enough that the Ottomans should only have one unique technology.
With Viziers (and not counting the one that just gives Jannisaries) they currently have 10 unique upgrades they can get.
Pretty sure that is more than most civs.
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Some of them arent unique. You think that. They dont change course of the battle. I hope devs change them.
Perhaps you should look up what the word “unique” means. Then look at the context in which we, and the game, are using it.
Unique shouldnt mean useless otherwise you can call them unique but they dont give anything to the civ.
I’d say a unique tech to increase GB +1 range and +6 LOS, so it would still lose / trade off terribly against Culverin and upgrade Springald, but at least it would be possible to BABYSIT the GB without instant, catastrophic losses. GB dies instantly, so Jan is even more useless, can’t even fix the helpless GB. GB is frustrating, disastrous and useless in high-level games.
Also at least one decent unique tech for Janissary, current one is so extremely bad considering the current sorry state of the supposedly backbone unit of the civ, it’s impossible to justify.
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I’d like mehters to have support line of sight. Feels awks as heck to have a mehter AND scout in the hotkeys. Be nice to streamline play, I think.
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Smart idea to streamline gameplay and hotkeys yup. But GB is the unit who needs a lot more LOS (and more hp), to have basic survivability. 1,500-res, 1,000-gold GB is dying instantly, suddenly.
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