Nearly a century after Tamerlane's death, his descendants are still fighting for supremacy in Transoxiana and Persia. The youngest among them is Zahir ud-Din Muhammad โ also known as Babur, 'the tiger'. He dreams of restoring the crumbled empire, but another wave of invading horsemen from the northern steppes is about to change everything.
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—In-game campaign description
The Babur campaign consists of 5 scenarios. The player mainly plays as the Hindustanis, but in Pearl of the East as the Tatars, and the player color is orange.
Babur is represented by an Imperial Camel Rider but with better stats. Despite being an Imperial Camel Rider, he does not benefit from the Hindustani bonuses of 25% faster attack or +2 vs Standard Building. He appears in the scenario The Last Timurids.
He physically appears as a unit in the scenario Into India of his campaign, and the scenario The Fallen Amir of the Ismail campaign.
History[]
Born Zahฤซr ud-Dฤซn Muhammad, Babur is a Turco-Mongol conqueror and a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, best known for establishing the Mughal Empire in 1526 as its first emperor, being the first state that encompasses and unifies the entire Indian subcontinent since the times of the Mauryan Empire. The Mughal Empire would last for the next three centuries, until it was dissolved in 1857 by the British after the Indian Mutiny (Act III: India in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties).
Trivia[]
A younger Babur is represented by the unit Young Babur.
The campaign icon consists of a Mughal Shamshir (a type of Persian-origin curved sword), a composite bow, and a ceramic vase.
Babur's sister, Khanzada Begum, was captured and married by Shaybani Khan when the latter captured Samarkand from the Timurids. When Shah Ismail of the Persians defeated and killed Shaybani, he freed Babur's sister and her son from Shaybani's harem and sent them back to Babur.
Gallery[]
Babur (left) as seen in the expansion's official art
Mughal painting depicting the various Timurid rulers (seated) in a single painting (they were a lineage, not contemporaries), left to right: Akbar, Babur, Timur, Humayun, and Jahangir.