I have a completely off-topic question. I just now see a green dot under everyone's avatar that says X is on a distinguished road? And some button to add reputation to people. What's this all about I;m 100% sure it wasn't here yesterday
I have a completely off-topic question. I just now see a green dot under everyone's avatar that says X is on a distinguished road? And some button to add reputation to people. What's this all about I;m 100% sure it wasn't here yesterday
Great empire there. You've inspired me to play as the Mughals next.First post! And first game with HttT, where I took the Timurids with an eye towards trying to create the Mughal Empire under Tamerlane so I could avoid nasty tribal succession. Didn't quite succeed (but Timur has a tendency to drop dead very quickly), as it turned out, and violated the BB limit a fair bit, but it was well worth it in the long run. After that, turned to an Empire as quickly as I could get stab back to +3 (which wasn't very quickly). No cheating, but I did start reloading after the third heir death per ruler, so if you count that, fair enough.
Mucho Manly Mughal Lavender! This is in 1496. Major territorial acquisitions came from inheriting the Deccan sultanate through a stroke of luck, and utterly smashing the Mamluks so that they gave me virtually their entire empire (another journey into BB land, but worth it to get Jerusalem, Alexandria and Cairo). Since then have used cultural tradition to keep me supplied with diplomats (just got BB down to 5.9).
The new Casus Bellis and events are outstanding for the Mughals, as they frequently get free cores and excuses to annex neighbours in both the Middle East and India (and in India, Holy War allows very cheap stealing of Hindu provinces when you have a core on the capital). I also coveted Mecca and hoped putting the NF on Medina would eventually get me declared on, but Yemen (who took Hedjaz) weren't stupid enough for that - but eventually got a border friction event that let me snatch it from them. Since then, both Medina and Mecca have become Uzbek due to Settlement; working on Cairo now. Diploannexing Qara Koyunlu allowed me to eradicate the last vestige of Shiiteism outside the south of the Arabian plateau (and they're my next project), and heathen polytheistic Hinduism only survives on the outskirts of India, just waiting for a "border conflict" or two. Long term plan is to unite the entire Muslim world and then see if I can take down Europe, convert it and release it as enlightened emirate vassals. All hail the Inevitablid Caliphate!
Outside the Mughal Empire, there's been a few interesting developments. Aragon's absolutely destroyed Castille in a couple of wars, preventing them from finishing off Granada several times and forcing them to concentrate on colonialism; Morroco's stepped in and established a hegemony over North Africa in their place. Austria's become absolutely terrifying and is the only nation fielding an army larger than the might of the Mughals, which I'm not sure how they're managing since I'm at the force limit. The Ming blob was a lot bigger before I fought them in two wars, ekeing out a win the first time and then soundly thrashing them the second (freeing Tibet, the Mongol Khanate, and taking all the northern territories). Novgorod is huge as usual, but the Golden Horde and Ottomans have actually done really well for themselves, going back and forth with the Latins in multiple conflicts. I had to thrash the Ottos a bit when they attacked one of the countries in my sphere of influence, but mostly have been happy to let them hold off the Latins while I digested the Middle East and India. France has just been pummeled by Burgundy, Aragon and Brittany (!), and GB was formed quite early on. Over in the New World, the Cherokee are HUGE. Wonder if they can hold out now that the Portuguese have started sniffing around?
My Deccan Empire
Scotland kicked England's ass and Granada inherited Castille!\