So turkey, the nation or the turks. How do you play this nation? step one is simple, have more than 2 braincells, done ok then lets get on.
Overall info: Turkey starts out as the 2nd most populated nation in europe and is the most populated in the middle east also at the start, it has mostly hilly and semi mountinous terrain and is a genually easy to defend nation.turky is one of 4 nationsto start with a canal, the istanbul canal, its mostly useless unless russia wnats to invade africa through there for some reason.Turkey does not have many resources at the start besides a good amount of oil but is in a area full of natural resources. Turkey borders Iran, Armenia,greece,Iraq,syria and bulgaria and its capital is Ankara although Istanbul is its most populated city and the most populated in europe.
Early game:
As turkey you have a very advantagious early game, and you have some decent formables for cores. In the early game there are 3 options. Agrresive balkan expansion, Agresive Middle eastern expansion or peacful development. I personally recommend agresive middle east expansion as it has more resources. Turkey has no real bordering counter to it at the start, Iran and russia can pose a threath but Iran is not very commonly keen in expanding in the middle east at the start and russia likes to restore a cetain fallen past. As turkey the 2 first nations to invade are Egypt and Syria. Egypt for its resources and syria for the formable of Hittite empire. Egypt has a smaller population than you and a smaller starting force, if egypt and iraq are Ai and Iran and russia don't seem to be interested in you, tanks should not be necessary, specially after the electronics nerf. If egypt or iraq is a player, get them out of the game as quickly as possible, they are the only real threath if they are experienced enough. If egypt is a player, take the levant first and then declare war on them, naval invasions never go well in here. after taking Syria, lebanon cyrpus and hopefully egypt, form the Hittite empire and also take the rest of the middle east except for iran or arabia, then move up to the balkans and take the lands you need for the Ottoman empire and get those sweet cores. If any balkan nation is a player, prioritize taking them out. Any player that is actually good could pose a threath even if significantly smaller. Also take romania cause it is resource rich. After forming the ottoman empire, please yourself in taking more lands, if you are good, the game is basically won.
Medium game: Great you survived the hardest part. Now in the middle game there are 2 main options I ussually do. Mindless expansion or Historical expansion (basically accurate borders) I ussually do accurate borders but these don't really need alot of explaining. Depending in your situation, it can be useful to move your capital to istanbul and develop the whole empire. Just from tax and resources you can get a good amount of money. Mine out all the resources the middle east blesses you with they are all useful. At this point you should make tanks and maybe planes if you have the titanium for it. Developing in the middle game is easy and you will climb up the ranks relativly fast. Your position is strong. You are in the mediteranian meaning just blocking the suez and guarding gibraltar is enough to not get naval invaded, the only other entrances are the persian gulf and the red sea (I think?) Your very defendable almost everywhere. You ahve quite a few 5 million + cities, you have a huge amount of desert and mounatins in your terrain and its just great. research economic tech if you are in as table position and look how you outpass the Us in income.
Late game: At this point, its very likley the world is at your mercy. You will most likely be able to do whatever you want. Accurate borders or not. Here as long as you don't mess up you have restored the old ottoman glory. You have a huge income, large population, defensable territory and at this point very likley nukes or a regualtion system. Now its up to you to what you want. Until u get bored or everyone leaves.
And that is how atleast I play turkey. It is fun with still a sense of challange. It is not Kazahastan hard nor Germany easy. its a inbetween. Turkey has huge potential but also has a goo gap to fail. So get ready ur kebab and ur ice cream troll stick and restore ottoman glory and hegemony ove rthe world!
