Be careful about the dervish build. If you don't invest in outposts, you don't necessarily see what's coming over the hill, and an all-in Ottoman play can shut you down before your game even begins.

When you get five or six Manjaniq toggled to incendiary shots, they do massive damage to any unit. But Ottomans can deal with it using their best horsemen, which tank the shots and take down siege with relative ease.

Sipahi are just as effective as Camel Lancers DPS-wise.

Imams can't heal themselves and move really slow, while the dervish is much faster and can heal itself.

When you're dealing with Ottomans, you kind of need to slow down that mass that they build. With Ottomans, the longer it goes, the more units they get for free, which in turn they're just going to have a bigger army than you. But when you have those three villager boost, you have a little bit of an advantage at least at the start.