It's an exceedingly difficult matchup. One of the main things to keep in mind is that your cavalry, being Swordsmen, will be up 100POA vs the Polish cavalry in melee if the Poles are Disrupted or Disordered. So if you can have your cavalry fight in difficult terrain, or force disruptions with arche...

I think at least some Porte sipahi should have melee pistol

Polish cavalry run too fast,sipahi cannot outflank them and shoot more than once

anyway i finally won by placed the sipahi in the central and janissary on two sides to shoot their hussars

but i dont think i can have chance to face a polish player, their charge is too powerful to turkish cavalry

kvnrthr, Pixel and Snugglebunnies answers are spot on(and are two really good P&S players, if my bruised ego is correct. ;) ) I rarely play AS the Turks, but really play a lot against them. This is one way to find out their strengths and weaknesses. My personal advice to play them is this: Max ...

I used ottoman can easily beat any army in early period, also i can use late ottoman to beat any other armies such as imperial or Sweden or Spanish . But i found i can not match 1680-1698 Polish any way The polish musketeer can match my janissary and veteran janissary in firepower, even break the ja...