Is this a winnable war?

[CraterLoc]

Do you think we can win? I heard ottomans pack a punch even when outnumbered. I am allied to Austria and Castille and Ramazan is my vassal. Aragon and Navarra are Castille's PU and is Austria's PU. Moldovia is march of Hungary.

 

[ImAdrian]

Since you have twice the numbers the war should be quite easy, the only problem is that Castile might take a long time before they can actually help against Ottos, as they will probably waste a lot of time in northern Africa vs Tlemcen and Fezzan.

But you should be able to hold them off long enough for Castile to arrive (and even win without Castile). Just keep your troops close to Austria's if you can, and engage in advantageous terrain, or when you can catch a smaller ottoman stack. Then when Castile pushes from the south, it should be game over for the Otto.

 

[Nostalgium]

Adding to what @ImAdrian said, if you have naval superiority, you can even put a significant number of Ottomans immediately out of action by occupying Yanya and blockading Corfu while they siege it, if they go for it. Alternatively, fortify Cephalonia before the war, and you won't even have to unsiege the oppsite province first, and can bait them in by mothballing the fort. Either way, it's winnable.

 

[Bandua_of_Gallaecia]

It seems winnable, you have the numerical superiority and probably naval as well.

The decisive factor will be if the Castilian AI actually helps you or derps around.

 

[st360]

The way Ottomans beats 2x their army size is that they spend all their time marching their one single doomstack around lifting sieges on their forts and resieging any occupied forts faster than you can siege them (yes, even when their age ability ends). You will probably fight them alone while Spain screws around landing stacks in north Africa for 5% warscore, only to be beaten back by a detouring doomstack. And Austrian armies will march in circles 2 provinces away while yorue slowly loosing the battle 50k to 52k.

The only scenario where you can beat the Ottomans with the help of allies is if your allies are all close to the same 5 Ottoman border provinces and are forced to stick together. Even then, yorue usually heavily trying to attach allied armies, giving allied siege commands on provinces, and ping ponging your exausted stacks to reinforce lone allied stacks in battles while the rest of the alied stacks are idling around.

 

[Prebyster_Johannes]

Do you think we can win? I heard ottomans pack a punch even when outnumbered. I am allied to Austria and Castille and Ramazan is my vassal. Aragon and Navarra are Castille's PU and is Austria's PU. Moldovia is march of Hungary.
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I think you can win. Been playing as Hungary and was able to win 3 wars against Ottomans. Make sure your troops are drilled to near max, I had less men at first but was able to beat them back due to high drill. Then the Austrains and Polish arrived and we were able to occupy all of Ottoman Europe. As others noted they will doomstack but just avoid them, keep your armies near each other, let attrition wear them down and pray that Mamluks open a second front.

 

[CraterLoc]

France sucks. First they enforced peace and in the second war they intervened. We still won. During the first war France sent me gifts and improved relations. They even gave me subsidies. What do they want?

 

[CraterLoc]

Sorry by won i mean the first war. The second war is still going on and and france is giving me a headache. I fairly new to EU4. Can I upload my save file and you see what can be done?

 

[Prebyster_Johannes]

France sucks. First they enforced peace and in the second war they intervened. We still won. During the first war France sent me gifts and improved relations. They even gave me subsidies. What do they want?

Probably to turn you against Austria. They seem to squabble alot.

 

[CraterLoc]

Probably to turn you against Austria. They seem to squabble alot.

We won anyways. I scornfully insulted them and they were still sending gifts.

 

[Prebyster_Johannes]

We won anyways. I scornfully insulted them and they were still sending gifts.

Well it seems y'all are married now. Congratulations!?

 

[CraterLoc]

Well it seems y'all are married now. Congratulations!?

Venice is a republic, remember? No marriage

 

[Prebyster_Johannes]

Venice is a republic, remember? No marriage

Leading on the eldest daughter of the Church like that, for shame. No wonder she's crazy.

 

[Stratagyfan101]

The best way to win is to game the AI as others stated above. Get the AI onto an island, blockade the port, and make sure they don't control the mainland province that crosses onto the island. If you don't want to do that, then you need to basically just follow Austria around and pray they do something smart. Try to maintain good relations with France. If you get military access through France, and Austria is still the emperor, then Spain can march its armies across Europe. If you don't open this land bridge with Spain, the AI will struggle. The only other advice I can give is if you beat the Ottomans and are able to take provinces, take Constantinople and Gallipoli. Then you can slow the Ottomans advance into Europe as now they will be forced to go around the Black Sea.

 

[CraterLoc]

So the last run went kinda bad since france allied ottomans but here france is pretty weak. Round 2? Oh yeah, I own Constantinople. Sadly this time around austria didnt get the hungary pu and poland didnt get the lithuania pu but i think this is possible.

 

[CraterLoc]

Forgot to add, Castille has PU over Navarra, Aragon and Naples

 

[dm99]

It's a little strange to ask if you can win with a 2,5x advantage. It looks like all the superiority falls on the allies? And in general, it is not clear what the problem is to beat the Ottomans, how much I played in Italy, I did so much. And with allies and one on one. True, this usually happened later. Usually, if the forces are equal or a little more, then this is enough for a person to defeat the machine.

Version 1.32? Then the AI is a little cowardly, if it feels superior, it will not get involved at all, but will go to besiege Poland. Or Spain. Or even hide.

The easiest way is to drive him into Anatolia, then capture the straits. And since there seems to be an enclave opposite Crete, then he will go there. If it's too fast, land the Marines on the very edge of Egypt, take the province and get out, and keep going like that for as long as you want. AI does not tolerate such impudence at all. Well, then, when everyone pulls up, add pressure.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

If you own constantinople, you can probably assault down a fort and strait trap to win the war outright by yourself. With allies distracting, it should be even easier.

 

[klingonadmiral]

You're going to get GP intervened on so hard.