Military wise you have 5 spahi, 3 spahi, 5 mamelukes, 5 abus, 8 jans and 2 falcs.
It is my opinion that out of all of the fast fortresses, the Ottomans is easiest to kill while still in colonial.
Spahi die very quickly to a decent number of pikes or muskets. 4 age up abus are easily dispatched by a little focus firing with muskets. They do get falconets but they do not really get enough of a meatshield to protect them from a decent number of cavalry. Most of their powerful shipments such as Spahi and Mamelukes cost to ship so if you are in colonial you can often stop him stockipiling the resources for them.
It is only really worthwhile for an Otto to go fort when they can afford to immdeiately take full advantage of extra tcs, veteran upgrades and their mercs.
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