The writer that originally leaked all the Tom Herman info was a UT Beat writer . <| sep |> It wasn ' t a genocide , it was a massacre , the Armenians werent targeted specifically other ethnicities died too . They were conspiring with Russians to attack the Ottoman empire . <| sep |> I did my run with Ethopia in 1 . 18 with the goal for Prester John achievement get Constantinople and to get all coptic holy sites back , so I had to beat Ottomans down for good . I took Egypt around 1500 and can say yes , you definitely can live nearby Ottomans when you hold Egypt . Despite that they always desired at least one of my provinces , the tensions never grew big and they conquered other lands . Only after I clearly marked my interests , that I wanted their provinces , they grew hostile and eventually declared against me at around 1630 . At this time they had a force limit of 140 quantity ideas against my 70 k army offensive , defensive and they had France and Russia as allies , while I only had Spain Oman and Medri Bahri . All european allies acted stupid though , so it was me my arab allies against him . The most important tip I can give you is that you definitely should control the mountains in Sinai peninsula and build some forts there . I stacked so much defensive bonuses there that I could almost always win against his sieging armies and finally could bleed him to zero manpower and I could peace out with a huge pile of gold . When he has the manpower and force limit advantage which is very likely , you should always try to concentrate your armies on one fort and try to attack when he has split his armies . After the first war , he always had huge loans , was bankrupt 2 times and his armies were weak . By 1710 I had completely removed the Kebap . Getting the gold mines in south africa is vital to finance your army though . Luckily for me the AI had developed 2 gold provinces to around 30 so I had a income from gold provinces of 29 ducats after getting them all . And as you can ' t risk being behind in tech against Ottomen , you should develop your provinces to force spawn the first 3 institutions renaissance , colonialism , printing press .