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since everybody is playing otto now .I thought I could be a little sneaky and play the most anti otto civ. So wich is the most anti-otto rush civ?

 

well a turtle beats a rush (or at least is more effective agenst a rush) and the dutch are good at turtling so id say the dutch are pretty good agenst ottos. but if you want to be a civ that has a very high chance of overcoming the ottos then be an OP civ (japs, indians, germans...)

sry I dont have tad or twc so I cant play them. and in vanilla germs are considered up( I dont think so)

I have heard that ports should do good against otto rush. is this true

well.... i know this isnt any help but, all civs correctly used are good vs the ottos. The ports imo are as effective as other civs agenst the ottos, i would still recommend dutch

yea, dutch are good against ottos, i think spanish 2

i think actualy every civ that got (very)good hand-units ( dutch and spanish)

spanish are great with fast rush...

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yea, dutch are good against ottos, i think spanish 2

i think actualy every civ that got (very)good hand-units ( dutch and spanish)

spanish are great with fast rush...

spanish imo are a very good civ but im too noob to play as them cose i hear theyre hard to play. a spanish ff is as powerful as an otto ff therefor rendering the otto ff useless. at that point it is a matter of who is the better player 

ok I will try the dutch do u or anybody else have a good strat for dutch against otto? And keep sending suggestions on civs that are effective against otto.

I have played spain and the ff is not so difficult to do. theres a basic spanish ff on aoe3heaven

 

tire the turks out. They rush with jans that build barracks, so if your talking about anti rushing which of course is defending the rush, the key is too defend,. I will go into detail about the strategy.

Turks i find will always have many jans, and heavy artillery.

- build culverins and falconets and even skirmishers to defend the onslaught.

 

otto units are expensive so they will eventually begin to tire, this is when u try and make a push forward and attack their base, of course leaving units to defend, its just a case of countering them, with anit infantry and the odd bombard, if they use cavalry, sacrifie your cannon for pikeman, or anti cavalry. Ottoman are very big at the end of the treaty but will tire.

 

oh and british are effective against otts. British infantry (fully upgraded musketeers including all cards) are the best infantry and are the only infantry an equal sized otto jan army cannot beat. PERIOD.

Brit muskets can also crush archer cavalry or hussars, just make sure u have a few culverins for there artillery.

 

Brit eco will outlast ottoman

Comfortably russians. You will outnumber his jans with strelets at least 3 to 1. Then after the first rush is beaten, oprichniks can go to work on his slow spawning villies and damage his eco for good.

ports and dutch can both easily defeat ottos by using a turtle strat.  With Dutch just do a colonial skirmisher spam and ship in pike to take care of his hussar shipment, and if he starts making abus just make a couple of hussars, or go fort and make ruyter.  With Portuguese i do a fast fortress with colonial militia.  If you keep your second tc in range of the first they're combined tc fire will hold back the jans long enough for you to get into fortress age.  Once in fort just get cassadores for his jans and dragoons for any abus or hussars he may use.  I also like to get mamelukes because they are very effective at killing abus guns and raiding, which can really hurt ottos b/c they have such slow spawning villies.