Having the non dehli mission trees fire when you occupy dehli in war would be nice, as not all of them do, getting rid of Fort requirements in mewar would also be nice because you end up building 4 forts that border each other in the south
Jaunpur is meant to reform into dehli and collapsed not long into game start.
While I agree in that the Bahmani Vijayanagar thing is unbalanced, I doubt there would be much game balance changers in India since Dharma wasn’t that long ago
They also historically defeated the Mughals through one of the first uses of Guerrilla Warfare, rather than conventional line formations that were common on Indian battlefields
Wouldn't it then make sense to give Jaunpur a short mission-tree that encourages them to form Delhi, as well as missions and events that depict the hardships that fell upon Nagaur and historically led to the country's annexation?
Agreed. Deccan Sultanates and Vijayanagar successor-states don't appear in the game enough, and having the blobs in Southern India actually able to collapse would help to make the region more dynamic.
It's less about dynamism and more about Europeans actually colonising, if vaginacar has been there since 1444, it's going to have so many ducats stacked up, and Europeans will never be able to expand from their initial chartered land due to how naval attrition works on troops now, whereas if balkanised they can more easily expand. India being colonised more often would also make gameplay more dynamic for Indian players as you can be Napoleon's BFF to help expel the British just like in history.
Biggest reason to give jaunpur an update along with rest of India, is that their + religious unity idea is useless now we have estate privleiges. But unsure what to put in place, unrest reduction either feels useless or OP.
I've seen AI mughals once, timurids just don't expand through hindu kush in my games even if half the time timurids do survive to 1700. If Orissa loses the vassals then Bengal always goes strong in my game. Bengal is probably one of the strongest regional powers atm, as Ming implodes far more and so capturing those southern Chinese provinces for the permanent morale boost is easier
While I agree the AI for colonizing Asia could be better, remember that the British got extremely lucky when conquering India, as the EIC had arrived when the region was largely divided and decentralized (The Maratha Confederacy was much more decentralized than the Mughals were). If the Mughals had still remained a major power, or if the Marathas would have had a centralized empire rather than an administrative confederacy, it would have been much harder for the EIC to take all of India.
Yes there was luck to it, and funnily enough it's the French who are to blame for the militirasation of the trade companies. But the bigger issue is eu4 can't model the collapse of empires properly, the nawabs didn't declare independence wars but just became more and more independent. Dharma just giving the mughals gov reforms which boosted number of states (later gov. capacity) rather than relationship slots didn't help either.
Jaunpur is meant to reform into Delhi, I do agree for Sindh and Marathas. The rest of India needs something like the Malay countries are getting for SEA, where the missions are generic (but unique to that region) except for one branch
