No wonder Siphai’s are OP in Age of Empires.

no Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Belligerents list

Found your problem.

something something sabaton something something THE WINGED HUSSARS

always gets to me that his name is basically “afficionado/addict”

The “tiryaki” nickname is said to originate from his addiction to coffee.

In modern turkish we still use this with that effect, “O sigarnın tiryakisidir” > “his addiction is cigarettes”