Talk:Indians (Age of Empires II)/Strategy/@comment-1.39.32.9-20151117182543/@comment-120.56.244.183-20170710221520

The Rise of the Rajas patch should have also given Indians battle elephants, considering that, historically, this was the oldest and longest elephant using civilization, as it continued to use such units right until the early modern period. Just because this civ  has a unique elephant archer does not exclude it from having a regular/generic battle elephant like the Khmers. The exclusively camel idea is somewhat inaccurate and gimmicky- as pointed out above, they're confined only to northwestern India, and were deployed only by northern kingdoms. In fact, horsemen, called Sowars, were mainly deployed by Rajput and Sultanate rulers as cavalry, rather just camels. If the developers wanted to encourage camel usage, they should have made the Imperial Camel available to all desertic/middle eastern civilization, not just Indians.

Also, here's an idea- considering that India itself contained various medieval civilizations, each with their unique characteristics, buildings, cultures and militaries, wouldn't it be possible to divide the Indian civilization further into various sub-civilizations, falling under an Indian culture cluster, such as the Rajputs, Vijayanagarans, Tamils, Oriyas, Deccanis, Delhi etc., especially after the new patch, that introduces a distinct Indian architecture that can be shared by more than one civilization. Each one could have their own playstyle, campaigns, techs, unique units and wonders, based on their history. Just a thought.