Ottoman or Mughal who has better ideas?

[Doomed World]

personaly i like Mughal

[erneiz]

FWIW, my campaign with Mughals did go a lot better than my Ottoman games. Though I think it's less about their ideas and more about land development and neighbor countries. Mughals just have a much easier time blobbing on a much richer lands than the Ottos.

[Doomed World]

of corse you have to form the Mughals

[FloatingOrb]

According to popular opinion, ottomons still have the strongest blobbing ideas in the game. Its close though, since manchuria and yes, the mughals, are really bloody close. That said, the difference only matters when considering world conquest, so they are practicaly equal.

[Doomed World]

mughals save more in more ways than just coring

[Findus]

To be fair both countries are good enough at blobbing out it doesnt matter that much between them.

[mischa.zehnbauer]

When it comes to coring costs, the difference between 25% and 33% is neglectable, unless we are talking wc here. Both idea sets are very strong. I love Mughal's bonus to religious unity and tolerance of the heathen. Combine it with a strong dhimmi estate and you don't have to care about hindu or confucian provinces anymore. Reduces tech- and ideacost is great as well.
Otto's have the same bonus to tolerance of the heathens, +1 accepted culture and huge boni to force limit and manpower recovery.

Mughals/Timmi are great for early blobbing. You have a cb against everyone around you and can simply attack-raze-core-repeat. Once you change to Mughal you loose that CB, but gain a permanent claims on the whole indian subcontinent, which is pretty strong as well. Your economy will probably suck, though and you might consider bankruptcy at a save moment.

Ottos are more versatile, as you can change religion to a christian faith easily during the first years. This enables PUs, probably HRE (catholic) or a very strong deus vult as Coptomans. Also you start as a very rich nation and will probably never face money issue during your campaign.

You can easily do great with both of them. However, you can't do wrong as Ottomans, whereas you can easily screw up as timmi/mughal.