Any quick ways to conquer the Mamelukes?

[MyNameIsOmali]

Pretty much just the title. I took two provinces from Orthodox Georgia and half the Muslim world got ~30 AE, so I don't see how I could reach the historical Ottoman conquests. Are there any missions, events, or decisions that speed it up? I have the mission "conquer the levant" but that doesn't do anything but give me claims. No info on EU4 wiki's country guide for Ottomans

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On a side note, any advice for war with the Mamlukes? My mil tech is 2 higher than the Mamlukes so I'm not too concerned, just worried about constant reinforcements from Tunisia and Algeria. My only ally is Nogai, so I'm thinking maybe Morocco to distract Algeria and Oman or Hedjaz to annoy Mamlukes?

 

[Incompetent]

There is an event that gives a mission to annex the Mamluks, in the Mamluk event file. You need to make sure Persia is independent and has a port, though.

Failing that, you can kill them reasonably quickly by cutting them in two in the first war (so their Asian territory is not connected to their African territory) and then using Colonialism CB to take the rest of their Asian holdings.

 

[El Jojo]

Creating Syria can help, either you take one province from the Mameluks and create a vassal Syria out of it, then in the next war you force The Mameluks to give back all their cores. Do the same with Tripoli in your case. Or you just ask them to free them and diplovassalize after but it might be harder. Then you'll have a much smaller Mameluks.
Keep feeding the vassals until you can vassalize Mameluks, I guess.

 

[MyNameIsOmali]

Failing that, you can kill them reasonably quickly by cutting them in two in the first war (so their Asian territory is not connected to their African territory) and then using Colonialism CB to take the rest of their Asian holdings.

So taking the Sinai peninsula is the way to go?

And I'll definitely create Syria then and get back their cores

Thanks for the advice!

 

[grisamentum]

So taking the Sinai peninsula is the way to go?

And I'll definitely create Syria then and get back their cores

Thanks for the advice!

Yeah, you just want to cut Cairo off from the provinces in Asia. I think Gaza and Sinai?

After that, just take all the Mediterranean coastal provinces, leaving Cairo and all the others. Then you can actually diplo-vassalize the rest fairly easily - Cairo is a 10 but every other province down there is a 1 or a 2.