Mughals guidance

[Ixor779]

Having never played them before I am at a loss as what to do now. Its 1534, Yarkand and Jaunpur are my vassals.

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I started with admin ideas, what should I take next? What would be the best use of my merchants?

 

[Slugger23]

Coloonize Siberia

 

[User29]

Coloonize Siberia

I prefer aiming for Indian Ocean Domination and taking Australia for awesomeness.

 

[Artyom87]

theres like a million things to do. Youre probably not even close to being able to compete with top nations like France and Commonwealth.
-capture all of india
-capture all of arabia and egypt
-get constantinople
-get crimea (this would put you as a direct threat for commonwealth)

 

[Ak1995]

Go for the Silk road achivement. its kinda easy and is most suited for Mughals to do so.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

theres like a million things to do. Youre probably not even close to being able to compete with top nations like France and Commonwealth.
-capture all of india
-capture all of arabia and egypt
-get constantinople
-get crimea (this would put you as a direct threat for commonwealth)

I disagree, if he's on par in miltech we're probably talking over double the current full combat width available to him in FL. I wouldn't have formed Mughals until ready to tear India to shreds in 1 go or close, but other than that it looks fine. An experienced player can easily shred the Ottomans from that position, or Muscovy but they look a bit on the easy side to block for now with conquest of Siber + 1 colony.

I prefer aiming for Indian Ocean Domination and taking Australia for awesomeness.

Agreed, sort of. Tropical is really slow and painful to colonize so not a high priority other than Maldives (which isn't). Despite that, it is more valuable than Siberia but right now a colony will probably take him several times longer to colonize too. I recommend a block colony in Siberia, a colony in the Indies to put claims on Majapahit/Malacca/Brunei (focus on taking important centers of trade first), then colonize the non-tropical Taiwan + get an Australian CN going. Once you have enough DIP for semi-okay colonial growth, Indies all the way as the Malacca node is rich and most trade good draws are valuable.

 

[Ixor779]

Didn't go for India fast enough, manpower was the issue. 1556.

Muscovy is next, were both at military tech 10.

 

[FloatingOrb]

I would have to say you need to tackle muscovy before they become a major pain. after at least crippling them, go for indian domination because it makes you MAD bank. After that, I would either unite islam or just start a new game, you sort of steam roll everyone with your combination of muslim tech and indian units.