The Sepoy provides a more expensive but also more powerful replacement to the regular Musketeer for the Indians, with more hit points and attack. The Sepoy is good against heavy cavalry due to its decent hand attack and strong multipliers versus them. It is good against most heavy infantry and light ranged cavalry units due to its powerful ranged attack. Overall, Sepoys are powerful units that are the backbone of the Indian army.
Sepoys are the strongest in the early Commerce Age, when compared to the regular Musketeers, Janissaries, Ashigaru Musketeers, and Caroleans, and are also capable of beating them in ranged combat (but in the case against Janissaries, it depends on which unit fires first). However, They start to fall behind when other Musketeer units get upgraded through Home City cards in later ages, especially Ashigaru Musketeers and Caroleans. The Sepoy costs more food but less coin when compared with Ashigaru Musketeer, and more coin when compared to the Janissary.
Using the Battlefield Constructions Home City Card, Sepoys gain the ability to build military buildings like Barracks, Caravanserai, and Castles. It is possible to receive 2 Sepoys instead of 1 villager with every Indian Home City card by sending the Conscript Sepoys card. It is also possible to convert all villagers into Sepoys in the Industrial Age by sending the Sepoy Resistance card for 2,000 wood, which is similar to getting Revolutionaries after performing a Revolution.
Mansabdar Sepoy[]
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Inspires all nearby Sepoys. Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a large bonus against cavalry at melee.
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—In-game description
The Mansabdar Sepoy is a stronger version of the Sepoy that can be trained from the Charminar Gate wonder. As a Mansabdar unit, the Mansabdar Sepoy has twice the hit points of a Sepoy and Imperial Service that increases the hit points and attack of nearby Sepoys, but is twice as expensive.
Special ability[]
Imperial Service (passive): The Mansabdar Sepoy increases the hit points and attack of Sepoys in a radius of 24 around him by 10%.
Sepoys have 190 hit points, have 15 hand damage, 22 siege damage, a ×3.0 melee multiplier against cavalry, a ×2.25 melee multiplier against shock infantry, and train in 34 seconds.
The Exalted upgrade for Sepoys grants 50% extra hit points and attack.
Mansabdar Sepoys cost 2 population and have 380 hit points.
The Sepoy's in-game description is "Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a slight bonus versus cavalry at range and a large bonus versus cavalry at melee.", and the Mansabdar Sepoy's in-game description is "Inspires all nearby Sepoys. Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a slight bonus against cavalry at range and a large bonus against cavalry at melee."
With update 38254, the Sepoy's in-game description is "Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a large bonus versus cavalry at melee." and the Mansabdar Sepoy's in-game description is "Inspires all nearby Sepoys. Powerful Indian heavy infantry that has a large bonus against cavalry at melee."
With update 13.58326, Sepoys have 18 hand damage, 19 siege damage, a ×1.75 multiplier against cavalry and a ×1.2 multiplier against shock infantry.
With a later update, the Sepoy's in-game description is "Indian heavy ranged infantry with a powerful attack and many hitpoints."
With patch 15.30007, Sepoy multiplier vs. cavalry in melee changed from 1.75 to 2, and hand damage from 18 to 17.
Trivia[]
The unit description before the Definitive Edition said that the Sepoy has a slight bonus versus cavalry at range, despite the fact that Sepoys have no ranged multipliers.
Possibly, the Sepoy had a ranged multiplier against cavalry during the development of The Asian Dynasties, like the random map Revolutionary.
History[]
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By definition, the "sepoy" is an indigenous soldier serving in the armed forces of a European power. The most commonly known example is a native Indian fighting for the British occupational forces in India, starting in the sixteenth century. The rank of sepoy is the lowest enlisted rank in the British India army, similar to that of a private.
Sepoy soldiers were the driving force behind the 1857 uprising associated with the British East India Company, the commercial trade empire that had occupied and exploited the territories of India since as early as 1610. The mutiny erupted when a group of sepoys refused to use their new Lee-Enfield rifles. Loading the rifles required the soldiers to bite off the ends of greased cartridges, and rumors that the cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs had circulated through the ranks. This outraged both Hindus, who regard cows as sacred, and Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean. After years of British mistreatment and disrespect, the sepoys found they had endured enough.
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Gallery[]
An in-game Sepoy
An in-game Disciplined Sepoy
An in-game Honored/Exalted Sepoy
An in-game Mansabdar Sepoy
The Sepoy's history portrait
Sepoy soldiers from the 1857 Indian Rebellion
In-game Sepoy in the Definitive Edition
In-game Disciplined Sepoy in the Definitive Edition
In-game Honored/Exalted Sepoy in the Definitive Edition
Imperial Service (passive): The Mansabdar Sepoy increases the hit points and attack of Sepoys in a radius of 24 around him by 10%.
Disciplined Sepoy
Honored Sepoy
Exalted Sepoy
Cree Tanning (+5%)
Navajo Weaving (+5%)
Tar Kilns (+5%)
Smokeless Powder (+10%)
Armatoloi (+5%)
Yoga (+5%)
Clenched Fist (+25% hand attack)
Somali Oryx Hide Shields (+5% ranged resistance)
Quechuan Mountaineering (+10%)
Akan Fontomfrom (+5%)
Apache Endurance (+5%)
Quechuan Diet (-15%)
Immigrants (-10%)
Mapuche Ad-mapu (-10% coin cost)
Golden Liberty (-5% coin cost)
Jagiellonian Legacy (delivers 2 Sepoys if Agra Fort was built for the Indians to reach the Commerce Age)
Meritocracy (-20% upgrade cost)
TEAM Senegalese Riflemen
TEAM Grenadier Guards
TEAM Yongle Infrastructure
TEAM Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Coffee Consumption
TEAM Scout Infantry
TEAM Inca Bridges
Dravidian Martial Arts
5 Sepoy
12 Sepoy
9 Sepoy
14 Sepoy
Indian Gunpowder
Sepoy Resistance
British East India Company
TEAM Shivaji's Tactics
Fencing School
Zamindars
Battlefield Construction
Foreign Trading Companies
TEAM Sengoku
TEAM Knights of the Round Table
TEAM Mariachi
TEAM Gunpowder Infantry Hitpoints
TEAM Spanish Inquisition
TEAM House of Bernadotte
TEAM Ranged Infantry Attack
TEAM Dueling School
