ISTANBUL

The ottomans are the civilization with most unique units, they have the janissary, which is like a musketeer but better, the abus guns, which are a combination between a falconet and a skirmisher. they also have spahis, which are heavy cavalry, that you can only get through home shipmnts, and cannot obtain through barracks or any other building like that, They also have galleys, imams, and the great bombard, which is the best artillery in the game.

The Ottomans produce settler from the home city but they come much slower, and they can reach a maximum of 99, when you have bought all the upgrades in the mosque  for it. Another advantage is that they can build an artillery foundry by the second age, so that they have a strong artillery force by the COLONIAL AGE.

Since most of istanbul's troops are artillery, even though they are very effective against infantry, horses can easily kill them of. they also don't have a big variety of military troops, because if we consider that they can't get the spahi unless its by home city, that means that they only have hussars, and cavalry archers. since they get to many villagers, sometime they'l get to many, and that will mean that they don't have enough to make an army to defend or attack the colony, so lots of times they will have to sacrifice villagers.