Maharana Pratap and Mewar Never Changes:
So, what do I think of Mewar?
They are an interesting country that has a start that is both weak and strong at the same time. Their land is generally poor and they start surrounded by hostile muslim states that are generally stronger than them, and on top of that they have events that harass them during the early game. However, they have the Mewar gold mine. Which is great an all, but gold can't buy you manpower which was my main limiting factor in the first 100 years or so. But after I had consolidated Rajasthan I pretty much exploded into northern India, which promptly triggered a coalition war - Transoxiana, Jaunpur, Multan and the remains of Gujarat against me, Vijayanagar and Bengal. I do not understand why the coalition declared on me when my side had the quantity AND quality advantage (nothing more fun than wiping stacks with a 15% discipline advantage with a superiority wargoal). Well, Jaunpur had to give me the Lower Doab area for that transgression. After that it was just keep consolidating until I got the achievos.
However, there were a few things that irked me going for the achievements:
I think that among the 7 Indian tags I played, it's currently 7th, though that should by no means imply that it is bad by any stretch.
So, what do I think of Mewar?
They are an interesting country that has a start that is both weak and strong at the same time. Their land is generally poor and they start surrounded by hostile muslim states that are generally stronger than them, and on top of that they have events that harass them during the early game. However, they have the Mewar gold mine. Which is great an all, but gold can't buy you manpower which was my main limiting factor in the first 100 years or so. But after I had consolidated Rajasthan I pretty much exploded into northern India, which promptly triggered a coalition war - Transoxiana, Jaunpur, Multan and the remains of Gujarat against me, Vijayanagar and Bengal. I do not understand why the coalition declared on me when my side had the quantity AND quality advantage (nothing more fun than wiping stacks with a 15% discipline advantage with a superiority wargoal). Well, Jaunpur had to give me the Lower Doab area for that transgression. After that it was just keep consolidating until I got the achievos.
However, there were a few things that irked me going for the achievements:
- The Maharana Pratap achievement as well as your mission tree require you to keep the Rajputs very happy and a decent land percentage, which kind of sucks once you hit the Age of Absolutism. If one wants to play Mewar without going for the achievements, I would completely disregard the rightmost branch of the mission tree and build no Rajput regiments, ever.
- I feel that Rajputana is just a tiny bit too ambitious of a formable. You need to get a lot of high dev land that is without fail held by Muslims. Prepare for AE through the roof.
- The earlygame can be rather RNG heavy. In my first try, Timurids survived the first decade and promptly claimed DotF.
I think that among the 7 Indian tags I played, it's currently 7th, though that should by no means imply that it is bad by any stretch.
Countries in Italics have not been played in 1.30 and have been hit relatively hard by changes made in 1.30, generally in a negative manner.
- Bahmanis
- Vijayanagar
- Jaunpur
- Bengal
- Sirhind
- Sayyid-Delhi
- Mewar
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