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Ok, here is an Ottoman rush that works very well on Great Plains and Carolina. The popular misconception is that you should build a TP, without building a TP you can build a barrack right after you advance to the Colonial Age, ensuring a much faster rush. On average on GP i can have 20 Jannisaries in my opponents base in 6min 50sec. On Carolina i can do it faster but i haven't measured it. Note that this strategy is very good against British, average against French (they can turtle very well), average against Portuguese, good against Spanish, Ok against German, and  VERY bad against  Russian, DO NOT face a Russian person while using this strategy, YOU WILL LOSE.

Ok, heres the Strat:

First set one settler on crates and the others on hunts.

Queue all settlers onto food.

When you get your first 100 wood build your first house. Also build your second house in the

First age when you have gathered all your crates.

Send your first card: 3 settlers.

Age up with 400 wood.

When you start aging up set 3 settlers onto gold.

Send 2 food settlers to the middle of the map to build FB.

Build a barrack right once you age up.

Send second card in second age A.S.A.P: 5 Jannisaries.

The card order after you send the 5 Janissary card depends on your resources, use your discretion.

Start pumping Jannisaries until you have 20, then attack.

Card Order:

3 Villagers

5 Jannisaries

Use your Discretion

Thats all folks.

Please comment to make it better.

 

I've seen a strategy like this before, but IMO its better to build the tp.  It lets have more shipments which makes your rush more powerful even though its a little bit later.  Plus if you have 2 barracks it's nearly impossible to keep them constantly pumping jans with the weak ottoman eco.

I agree with Angus Khan, only to certain degree. This build would work best in a fast 1v1, though because you don't have TP, you won't have as much shipments and thus you rely on your eco, which at that stage would probably be weak. This build however, would not work in 2v2, as you need a TP to grow your existing economy as well as get more shipments. I really, don't favour doing Jan rushes, but instead I go for the Abus or  FF-FI Church (my favourite), or just the simple FF against russians.

Like the guys above me, it is good to get the TPs. I am a big believer in the Stagecoach method, in which you take the 400 wood and use it to build a barracks and research stage coach.  This allows you to get extra resources  in addition to crates. 

Yes, the tp is almost a must in vanilla. Almost, but not completely. It grants you an exp and resource "trickle", especially when bolstered with the Silk Road card. The 10 or so seconds it'll take for a settler to gather the crates can matter, by the tp pays itself off very fast.

I find that if i were to put 1 settler on crates it wold go on food first then 100 wood only and build one house after that PUT YOUR SETLER ON FOOD AND BUILD HOUSES AFTER YOU START ADVANCIN SO YOU CAN ADVANCE EARLIER. Other then that that is what i usually do, unless i do abus rush that is a whole lot differnt.

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I find that it is a waste having the tp until 15-17min where the first couple of extra shipment really counts.

Clearly, you have never IORed before, or faced an IOR then. On vanilla, mosque is a no, no exp trickle, too many houses is also a no, you can't keep constant jan production. So what to make? Tps. That's right, tps. With the silk road boost, boosting the tps and crate by 30%, your crates become larger, more useful, and your tps also become more useful. You'll find that you can constantly make jans, and even have extra resources (if done right). Here's the link:

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/strategy/9 

Read it, watch the recs, and you'll understand better.