Reliable Byzantine strategy for Manchu update?

[c_none]

Budgetmonk's strategy doesn't seem to work for me as Ottoman&Crimean navy come crashing before the single Constantinople unit gets his foot on Kocaeli. I guess they fixed the odd AI behaviour where they don't touch Budgetmonk's navy neither at the Aegean Sea nor at Marmara.

I have won a few battles thanks to Skanderbeg but the naval amborgoes make WE climb at a tremendous speed and ultimately I end up losing.

 

[wilki24]

I've been sitting here all day restarting, trying to get past the first war with the Ottomans. The closest I think I've come is when I had good luck stack wiping them multiple times, had a good warscore lead, and they tried offering me white peace because I was about to get their last stack.

Then my major ally took the white peace two days before our big combined stack would've started the battle. So, that meant I went in alone, and lost. :/

I've restarted well over a dozen times, and never seen the Ottomans attack Albania. They usually go for me, or one of the smaller countries in Anatolia.

And the ally AI is seriously bad. They will often bail on you just as you're going to take a fort, leaving you open to an enemy attack, or abandon a siege right before they win it. I wish there was a way to get them to at least stick to you better. I've had three or four starts that were promising, but then the Ottomans would merc up, and my allies would do something stupid to cost us the war.

 

[-DI- RivalET]

I did it after allying albania/serbia/wallachia'/trebizond n imereti and avoiding engagements