Alain-Masque said:
I rather did like my event C choice, perhaps the BEIC can have an event that such as
"Accept British Intervention"
(trigger british events)
or
"Assert East India Company as an asset independant from the crown"
(Massive revolt risk, -100 relation with GB, no longer a dominion/satellite)
The results of the 1857 Rebellions was not so much the liquidation of the BEIC as its "nationalization" - most of the BEIC employees in both the civilian administration and military defense of BEIC territories remained in their posts to serve the new crown administration after the British state takes over directly in 1858. As I've stated in previous posts, in 1858 the British didn't create a new administration for British India from scratch, but changed the leadership at the top. In terms of gameplay I think the following series of events would work :
1) Breakout of rebellion (I'd argue for the use of the MUG tag for the rebellion as the revolters in Meerut and Delhi rallied around the pensioned Mughal prince and viewed their movement as the restoration of Mughal authority. Thus we can create the rebellion as an "independence" event similar to how the Spanish Civil War is handled in Hearts of Iron).
2) Event 1 triggers event 2 - BEIC requests reinforcements from England. More of a cosmetic event in that since BEIC would be a satellite of England the outbreak of rebellion would mean that MUG and ENG would be at war anyways, but we could use it to create British units to represent the sending of British forces to help the company.
3) After the fighting is nearly over (upon loss of Delhi by MUG) an event that would represent the end of BEIC company rule in South Asia. For the human player, this I think could be symbolized with a name change from BEIC to "British India" and flag change from the BEIC flag to the flag of the British Viceroy (A Union Jack defaced with the Star of India) but allowing the human player to continue to be an active player in the game - finish quashing the 1857 rebellion and continue development of India's economy, final conquest of Burma in 1884-85, more intervention in Afghanistan and Tibet, etc. For an AI controlled BEIC probably the best would be simply to have Britain annex BEIC territories although some AI scripting could create a post-1857 AI British India as well.
Alain-Masque said:
Also the satellite nations of india should be satellites of Great Britian and NOT BEIC.
Up to 1857 I would disagree since it was the BEIC that kept the satellites under close scrutiny, not London. After the change from BEIC to Br India it would be less important, but the rajas, sultans and nawabs still looked to Calcutta more than London in their day-to-day relationship with the British so keeping them satellites to British India would not be that much of a problem.