The Ottoman Art of War mission has long been the subject of complaints that it's too hard or even impossible. I had beaten it with 1:35 to spare before the siege redesign, but my strategy relied heavily on siege, so I hadn't it tried it again after. But today I saw yet another forum post claiming it's impossible on the current patch and that the devs must've broken it, so I had to try. BeastyQt's videos on the mission showed me some tips that I used this time, like cutting through the wood at the bottom.

I want to highlight the number of mistakes I made in this attempt, like having the first great bombard out of position so it didn't get to help in its first fight, not building the keeps soon enough, floating thousands of gold, not having enough production, not building spare houses in time. This shows that if I had played it better, I could've scored far higher.

For the record, I am a diamond 1 player in solo, so of course if you are far worse than diamond, you shouldn't expect to be able to beat this challenge, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Please excuse my horrible video quality. My computer can barely handle this game by itself, let alone recording it at the same time 😆