Ottoman - HOI4 - Setting Up

01 May 1910: The Ottoman Empire and all its adversaries: Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro.

All is up-to-date here.....

….and here too.

I need Field Artillery Upgrade.

I also select Oil Extraction because I want to use the 15% reduction on the technology with the most days till completion. Turkey will need oil too.

Then I choose Basic Hand Tools.

This my Construction schedule. There aren't many building slots here.

My Production schedule.

I have a single fleet so I send it patrolling.

I have 5 Dockyards and the only 3rd generation ship design we have is destroyers.

I import steel from Russia.

I select Netham Nejat as my Military Theorist. I receive 0.05 Army XP per day.

I select Balkans Politics as my first focus.

Three Division templates to choose from and take a look at them.

Three battalions....

….two battalions....

and two cavalry battalions. Regimental-sized divisions.....

I expend my 15 XP on a 4th infantry battalion and an Engineer Support Company.

None of them are the trained. I separate the cavalry from the rest and create a Cavalry Army.

I start recruiting 2 of the 2 battalion divisions - I need the more divisions and they can be upgraded later.

Finally I assign most of 1st Army's divisions to the Bulgarian border.

I also have no airfields and no aircraft and we have a couple of wars to fight soon. This is definitely different to Germany. Until the next post, guys.