Taking the Levant as the Ottomans in a timely manner is impossible

[Zhetone]

I got the mission to take the Levant and it was a simple choice to take it; claims are nice.

However, every province in the region takes 13% warscore and so it's impossible to take the whole region in one war. The claims end up expiring before you can take the whole thing.
It doesn't help that every king of mine died before their heir reached maturity (they all died in their 20's) so if this annoyance could be fixed, that would be great. (In the EU4 beta before the game came out I can recall taking the entirety of the Mamluk land far faster than I can in the full release!)

Also, if you do annex it all in one go via console, you get tons of 50,000 stacks of rebels and no new accepted cultures in the region, but that's probably due to cheating and nothing else, so I won't really complain.

 

[Starki113r]

Yes, because God forbid you cancel the mission and get it later or (gasps) actually fabricate claims yourself to get them! For shame!

In all seriousness though, you can always take the mission again later.

 

[Jamey]

In earlier versions, you could take provinces on the far end of the area with claims first, cutting off the Mamluk's land connection to the rest. That results in the provinces being overseas for them and thus worth less Warscore. You still need to deal with OE and AE.

I haven't played 1.8 yet, so this may or may not be a valid strategy at this point.

 

[lordelenath]

If you want to cheat, do it right. Use 'integrate' not 'annex' - the latter doesn't give you cores on the new land.

Apart from that you can actually do it pretty quickly. Declare on the Mamelukes, take 100% OE, core it, declare on Cyprus which will get the Mamelukes in the war again (because they guarantee Cyprus) - voila, done.

 

[GabbyDieJaeger]

Missions like that one have been pretty broken ever since the truce timers got increased, I think forming Qing is by far the worst offender.
The length of these claims really should be extended somehow if you ask me.

 

[Zhetone]

If you want to cheat, do it right. Use 'integrate' not 'annex' - the latter doesn't give you cores on the new land.

Apart from that you can actually do it pretty quickly. Declare on the Mamelukes, take 100% OE, core it, declare on Cyprus which will get the Mamelukes in the war again (because they guarantee Cyprus) - voila, done.

That second part wouldn't cause problems with the truce if you marked them as a co-belligerent though?

 

[Path]

Just take the mission again. It's the easiest way (and the mission is only good for the claims anyway).

However, while somewhat gamey, it's possible to extend claims forever if you want to. Claims will never expire while you have a truce with the target, and will only do so at the end of the month, so if you wait until the truce timer expires, save the game and reload (to clear the truce timer--otherwise it won't clear properly until the end of the month), you can start a new war and refresh the claims. If you really wanted to you could keep claims active for centuries this way, although it's difficult to imagine why you'd want or need to.

 

[hwoosh]

Missions like that one have been pretty broken ever since the truce timers got increased, I think forming Qing is by far the worst offender.
The length of these claims really should be extended somehow if you ask me.

More like the entire mission system has been a mess and in desperate need of an overhaul since the game's release.

 

[Morik]

Just attack a Mumluk ally after the initial truce. (Keep some of Mumluk's smaller allies around so you can do this.)
They will generally join the war. (Even if they don't join right away for whatever reason, they'll join later if you wait to make peace.)

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

That second part wouldn't cause problems with the truce if you marked them as a co-belligerent though?

Correct, you can not mark someone as co-belligerent if you have a truce with them. It's still a way to get an additional 50% WS worth of provinces though, provided the Mamluks actually join, which they certainly wouldn't if you've only just destroyed them.

 

[lordelenath]

Correct, you can not mark someone as co-belligerent if you have a truce with them. It's still a way to get an additional 50% WS worth of provinces though, provided the Mamluks actually join, which they certainly wouldn't if you've only just destroyed them.

I just did exactly that in my Ottoman game and they joined immediately after the 13 months coring took me. You can not name them co-belligerent but I seem to remember that I managed to finish the mission anyway, since I took as much as possible in the first war. I'm not 100% sure about that, however.

 

[grandad1982]

I was doing this mission and feeding the provinces to my vassal Syria. I isolated some provinces and then sponsored some Syrian patriot rebels who flipped the rest to Syria. This resulted in my failing the mission.

 

[birincikalite]

Generally the way Ottoman conquest of the Mamluks are represented poorly in game. It didn't take a century for the Ottomans to fully conquer the Mamluks lol.

 

[Emiliana]

um...?

I did it just yesterday, taking it in two wars without the mission expiring. Idk what you're talking about.

Key advice to it? BEFORE you take the decision: Fight mameluks one time. Release Syria )) then take syria, then take the rest from mamelukes. <- not even what i did though.

the truce just ended sooner than the mission did.

 

[Deuterium Dawn]

More like the entire mission system has been a mess and in desperate need of an overhaul since the game's release.

And yet all they do is nerf missions to the point of uselessness every time DDRJake does another wc run.

 

[Clownie]

M-A-M-L-U-K-S. There is no E or C and only one U.

You're welcome.

(not directed at OP)