What's fun in India?

[Freudia]

I did a Nepal game back in 1.9 or so, and that was fun once I got out of the initial start.

Also, 'Prussia of India' is very much so a bad name for Nepal. That name came from back in the day when Nepal hadn't been nerfed (so like 1.2 or something) into something terrible before it got buffed slightly into what it is now.

 

[ssb]

What's fun in India?

Delhi belly

 

[Milith]

They're a military-centric nation with awful starting development and a worse starting ruler whose NIs don't even take off until later (there are other sets in India just as good for the first 100ish years)

This is not true at all. They start with a +25% force limit tradition which allows them to easily overpower all the other minor nations in the area 1v2 or sometimes 1v3 by stackwiping armies as soon as you declare (specially if you can get a morale advisor). I had a comparable force limit to Ming in the early 1500s after conquering the Bengal node.

The game I enjoyed the most in India was probably Ceylon though.

 

[yezhanquan]

This is not true at all. They start with a +25% force limit tradition which allows them to easily overpower all the other minor nations in the area 1v2 or sometimes 1v3 by stackwiping armies as soon as you declare (specially if you can get a morale advisor).

I had a comparable force limit to Ming in the early 1500s after conquering the Bengal node.

Point taken, but yeah, this speaks more about Ming's min 50% autonomy than anything.

 

[Paragon707]

The Timurids into mughals are rather fun but alas once you reform into the Mughals, it gets rather easy with Russia, and Maybe Ottomans with teh occasional European power being your only real threats

 

[yezhanquan]

Timurids-->Mughals has been rather high powered since EU III.

 

[zmb]

I've had fun, if slightly easy, games in India as Bahmanis and (Hindu) Bengal. Nepal was a more challenging start.

India is pretty fun overall - a decent amount of work to unify it and after you do you still have the Ming or Ottomans or someone to worry about.

I've been looking for an excuse to play someone further up the Ganges or the Timurids...

 

[Philadelphus]

As far as I know, Vijayanagar is one of the more interesting nations in India.

I certainly had a lot of fun with them, the (so-far) one and only time I played in India. This was right after Art of War came out, and I'd finally figured out enough of the game's systems to feel like I knew what I was doing. That was the playthrough I learned how to vassal-feed.

 

[blackchoas]

There are lots of different possibilities for games in India, it depends a bit on what you enjoy and how you wanna play it

You can play Muslim or Hindu or even try for Sikh if you want

There are good trade set ups, Colonization opportunities,

There are some good challenges like Ceylon or some of the other minors

It all really depends on what kinda game you wanna play

 

[AndreasPhokas]

mewar is a blast. a few opening unique events and a decent starting ruler. Unify the rajputs and be one of the few if not the only hindu state in northern india.

 

[TenshiN]

Gujarat has some absolutely massive trade boosts and some flavour events too, i quite enjoyed my Gujarat campaign

 

[Chaingun]

Played Gujarat last time. India is probably my favorite area to play, because of there being several similar strength nations and games can go either way.