Turkey strategy

[darkiemond]

Turkey strategy - against AI only of course, you can't trust those humans.

I played CP 3 times on all difficulties and I think I came up with optimal strategy.

The SW border with English seems pretty standard no matter what:
You gotta not let Brits through the narrow area and put 3 infantries on the border with 2 more in reserve nearby, later just 1 is enough for reserve.
This might be costly at first, and Brits always do try to break through and use a cannon and fighters. Never saw more than one cannon in that area though.
But as long as you manage to put up 3 infantries up front, don't attack and research reasonably fast Brits even stop attacking.

It seems intuitive to go after Russians with all those extra units. and capture some of those 1PP cities. And that's what I did in my first game.
It takes a while to advance, even you bring a cannon from Germany, because of lack of rails and mountains. You don't get yourself any extra PPs and deprive Russians of just a few until much later.

Instead I tried this and it worked great.

Disband all units instead of 4 or 5 you need to hold Brits in SW.
Russians never advance on Turkey in my experience no matter how well or badly they do above the Black Sea.

Then just concentrate on the labs until you research at least metal helmet make sure you have some surplus PPs every turn.
After you are satisfied with your research, you can sell some labs, build some units and provide serious help to AH & Germany.

So, in my current CP game on normal (this would also work on hard, I just didn't employ this strategy to the full extent when played on hard)
Around turn 60
Turkish infantry research is level 4, half way to 5
4 infantries on the SW Border with British.
3 infantries sent North to help AH & Germany and mind you Turkish MP is mostly intact so I can safely sacrifice those units if need be.
4 labs (at some point had 7, before starting to build extra infantry)
80 PPs saved
+4PPs income

Will build 1 or 2 units to deal with rebels when they show up soon.
Then send extra 2 units north or
Considering bringing a cannon down to pound Brits and hopefully advance enough to capture the channel so transports can't get through, but probabaly it isn't worh the effort and ammunition.

What are your thoughts? What have you done?