How to beatHouse of Lancasteras Ottomans

Against mass spearmen and Yeoman, it's best to replace Springalds with Great Bombards, as the Great Bombards don't get sniped easily by Yeoman and are effective against the spearmen mass.

The window here for Ottomans is imam into Mehter while your opponent's on spear hobelar lords. The reason that is so good is, well, that would be the full melee comp. And the hobelars are phenomenal because typically they swarm and overwhelm. But even if you overwhelm, if the Mehter has the melee armor turned on, you do five damage by default. … But that does give the Ottoman player the opportunity to take three, maybe four good fights if he chooses the position right before it becomes a problem.

When you're up against a spear/hobelar composition, Mehter's melee armor aura is incredible. But when the opponent adds yeomen and it becomes a 50/50 army, your only good option is the attack speed aura.

In the late game matchup between Ottoman and House of Lancaster, House of Lancaster gets Yeoman and Spearman from Wynguard Palace, massing trash units. Ottomans want to make Janissaries and Sapahi, but both get countered hard by mass spearman and mass Yeoman, and with the Synchronized Shot volley ability, the Yeoman do incredibly well against the Janissaries.

Always remember those hobelars, they cost 33% less, yet they have only five HP less than a standard horseman when the lords are near them. That's why they outlast sipahi.

With Mehter plus Sipahi, you can completely obliterate Hobelar.

When diving a House of Lancaster base, a White Tower makes it very difficult; the best damage you can do is target exposed resources or try to take down the Wynguard Palace, though that buys them time.

Ottomans' AoE healing is especially nice against Lancaster because they often go spear/hobelar first, so you don't get countered as quickly by range units.

You could try to go horsemen against the hobalars, but the hobalars are cheaper, faster, and with the lords they might handily beat the horsemen. But Ottomans, especially as it goes later on in the game, they'll be able to deal with this, but initially it's a struggle. You need a great bombard to deal with it.

The Yeoman, I think, take what, three or four hits with these four lords to die to the Sapahi, which is incredible.

But the Ottomans, they get Sipahi, the strongest horsemen in the game. On top of that, they also get the Mehter for an additional plus one ranged armor. And with that, you're essentially copying the tankiness of Knights with a much cheaper unit with an insane raiding potential. So, if you find your opponent just starting to age up, you can right then and there just dive with the Sipahi and bring your opponent down to the dark ages, basically back down to 15 villagers.

Sipahi diving underneath White Tower. Don't want to do that.