I've just hit 1750 in my game as Austria, and i have been at peace and trading with the ottomans since the very first turn. Since a couple of turns in, the Ottomans have been militarily feeble and financially destitute, despite not actually being at war with anybody but the Russians, only the two don't fight each-other, they just sit at war and never fight.
So around 1740, i decided it was time to rid Greece of nasty Islam and replace it with nasty Catholicism, and i invaded. I took 4 provinces from the Ottomans in Greece, including Istanbul, Venice took the other 2, and in all 4 provinces i encountered resistance from only 1 unit of militia, and the mobmen that cities automatically spawn.
1 unit of militia defending the entirety of Greece. So, once i had carved Greece up the way i wanted it, i paid the Ottomans for peace and trade. I noticed that i couldn't see any Ottoman naval units on the map, so i sent a single ship sailing around trying to find one... there were none.
At this point i sent rakes all over Ottoman territory in search of their armies. They have none. The Ottomans have not a single army on the map, just 2 cities each with no more than 2 units of irregulars. The Ottomans are a dead empire... They recruit nothing, they build nothing, they do nothing.
It's like the AI controlling them fell asleep.
Anybody else noticed anything this peculiar?
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