Just a question (probably pretty stupid one really), but in Thrace (Turkey) what the hell is the tent? What's it do? How are they formed? Are they harder to conquor?
It is a recruitment center.
It increcese the mapower available from and in that region and can be bought in core provinces when land tech is high enough (31 I think) Turkey get that one free at the start (so they don not have Land tech 31 yet ). If I remeber right they are not hard to conquer and stay if you take the province, but I am less sure about that.
I usually play France or England, depending on whether I want to take Italy or Germany. So I normally don't get into Turkey as a France-Muslim war would be too much, and an England-Muslim war just stupid. This is especially when I'm fighting the Pope, Spain and Naples, Austria and Hungry, Poland and Venice (as usually happens when I go for Italy).