First time playing in India

[Weyird]

Heyo,
So I picked up Rajas of India during some or other sale and I thought I'd start a campaign up in there.

Anybody have some commentary about playing in the region? What's more fun; Jain, Hindu or Buddhist? Is there a specific character that's fun to start as? What's the most interesting start date?

Also, a lot of DLC's have cone out since Rajas. There are now several silk route paths that go through, and China, its interactions and the newer Tibetan provinces are right there. How does playing Rajas now stack up to when the DLC first came out?

Is it normal for India to make boatloads of money from those silk trade routes?

 

[Serenity84]

Hindu allows for more offensive gameplay if you prefer that and can raid. Buddhists now also have holy wars, but have to pay a lot of piety. Jain's lose many CBs, but get lots of stability bonuses

One thing I noticed that with the Jade Dragon permanent tributaries India becomes very static eventually. For some reason everyone there eventually becomes someone else's tributary. You may want to turn off those CBs there.

Is it normal for India to make boatloads of money from those silk trade routes?

Everyone on the silk road makes boatloads of money. In India or Tibet you just may have it easier if you are located at the start of the silk road.

 

[HandicapdHippo]

whats more fun; Jain, Hindu or Buddhist? I

Indian religions characters can switch to one of the other at will once per lifetime, I would say just randomly pick one and switch later on to try them all out.

 

[WJS]

Hindu is best when carving out your empire, Buddhist is best when setting up your empire with minimal expansion, and Jain is best to defend the empire you've already created and set up.