Sikhism and Centers of Reformation

[Demonsul]

So my second Art of War game, following my brief test game as England, was Baluchistan>Mughals (a horribly ahistoric tag switch which will no doubt cause some forum unrest) and I trucked along pretty happily vassalizing a bunch of Indian states and forging my way to the Ganges. At some point after upgrading from generic to Mughal ideas, I got the event flipping one of my provinces to Sikhism.

Now that's great and all, but it seemed rather underwhelming when I'd seen the new reformation as England. So it occurred to me; surely it wouldn't take much work to have the centers of reformation, or some modified form of them, be used to spread Sikhism in India? It would be an interesting application of the mechanic outside of Europe, I think. There'd probably some limiting factor, like the center struggling to convert anything any great distance away, to prevent it spreading as far as Protestantism does, but I think it'd work better than random province flips, to be sure.

 

[uishax]

Did Sikhism spread in real life?
No?
It was only there for flavour, utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

 

[TheBoozehammer]

Maybe, but with smaller range and only 1 center.

 

[Castrolol]

Sounds like a decent idea. I would like to see Sikhism buff a bit before that though. It's a complete downgrade compared to hinduism and muslim. Only reason you'll ever pick it up is for roleplaying and/or wanting to use deus vult against the whole world.

 

[Dorevai]

Yea, Sikh should have a center of reformation. It spread very rapidly shortly after appearing. Random provinces across the world shouldn't just flip arbitrarily. And sikhism primarily spread through the travels and speaking of the gurus who led the religion, so you could be cute with the spread message and mention the guru visiting your land.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Having the system be much more focused rather then just being random provinces certainly sounds like a good idea to me. That was why the centers where added in the first place for the reformation.

 

[VolitionNewlove]

Did Sikhism spread in real life?
No?
It was only there for flavour, utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Err... What?

 

[Dorevai]

Of course the India situation still doesn't flow right. The Mughals should show up much more often than they do. I hope we see even more refinement to Hordes and India to help stimulate the way things did happen. It's a bit like the Manchu conquest of China, which is common now. I am happy that I see more europeans successfully take coastal provinces with the changes to how the AI handles naval invasion.

 

[Rabid]

Sounds like a decent idea. I would like to see Sikhism buff a bit before that though. It's a complete downgrade compared to hinduism and muslim. Only reason you'll ever pick it up is for roleplaying and/or wanting to use deus vult against the whole world.

Agree with this, if you swap away from Muslim or Hindu for Sikh you're a fool at the moment.

 

[Dorevai]

Yea, it should be a very significant religion given the surroundings. The british conquered them last. They should get a lot of discipline and morale.