Looks like things in the Caucasus are going to suck. You have more numbers, but their defensive location is vastly better.
Things on the Middle-East seem chill for now.
I can confirm that things in the Caucasus are not going so well - no blitzkrieg in sight, that's for sure. Surprisingly, things aren't that easy in the Middle-East either. Will post an update later today or tomorrow.
The worst thing is not even the terrain: supply is a much bigger issue. Also, dissent went through the roof once I joined the war, reducing further my IC - and consequently my Transportation Capacity, which in turns reduces my Effective Supply Efficiency (ESE). Add that to the fact that I'm mostly fighting in low infrastructure provinces and that's a big combat malus for my troops. My overloaded TC also means that my troops move super slowly while the enemy can redeploy his forces very quickly. My economy is also incapable of supporting the war effort, with commodities running low and me being forced to dedicate nearly 75% of my IC to producing supplies:
Here are the typical modifiers I'm fighting with in the Caucasus - and the Effective Supply Efficiency ESE malus is often worse than 25% :
Are you going to liberate Middle-Eastern countries as puppets, keep them or only keep until you can get some IC built?
Any plans to build IC once you secure all that oil and coal? Or just build units with what you have?
What about Iran? Taking it over WOULD place you into contact with the British Raj. Won't that result in lots of Indian divisions swarming over Iran?
I'll definitely puppet Middle-East countries at some point, both for roleplaying purposes (Turanists have no interest in Arab countries) and because most of them - Syria and Palestine in particular - have nearly no IC, manpower or natural resources worth controlling directly anyway. Even the oil fields in Iraq are not producing much - the really interesting ones are in the southwestern Iranian provinces of Ahvaz and Hamadan.
I'll also puppet some of the non-Turkic populated countries I conquer, once again for roleplaying purposes. That will most certainly be the case for Georgia and Armenia, even though they're rich in resources - but puppeting them will reduce my TC load and puppets are supposed to send their master their surplus of resources anyway.
No plans to invade Iran except for the western provinces of Kermanshah, Hamadan and Ahvaz in order to protect Iraq as well as the northwestern Iranian provinces of Rezaiye, Tabriz and Rast which are populated by Turkic Azeris.
Here is a map of the Turkic provinces that a Turanist Turkey would realistically claim as part of the new Turan empire - the non-Turkic inhabited regions in between would be puppets.
From west to east, the regions claimed are:
Ukraine/Russia
Crimea (Crimean Tatars)
Caucasus
Karachay-Cherkessia (Karachays)
Kabardino-Balkaria (Balkars)
Dagestan (Kumyks)
Chechnya (Kumyks)
Azerbaijan (Azeris)
Iran
Iranian Azerbaijan (Azeris)
Russia
Tatarstan (Tatars)
Bashkiria (Bashkirs)
Chuvashia (Chuvashes)
Central Asia
Central Asian republics (Kazakhs, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzs)
Tannu-Tuva (Tuvans)
Xinjiang (Uyghurs)