Research and Development: Questions news - India Total War mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

65. Any Idea for the Berar or Kozhikode Flags?

66. I need to remove Nagpur from the map because it wasn't founded till 1702, are there any other cities or forts in the area I could add instead

*25. There's a lot of lagging when you start a ship battle, anyone know a fix without lowering movement range a lot?

64. Can the ground types and river crossings be added removed via scripting? I want to show some deforestation and river flooding

(ANSWERED already but if you have more input please share)

1.Any Mounted Habshi or African Mercenaries? or were they mostly infantry?

2.Did the Mewar/Marwar Rajput recruit many Baluchi or Pashtun mercenaries?

3.What about long axes/halberds used by non-europeans? were the Tabar or Parashu prevalent at all in the 16th century?

4.Were all indian/afghan shields round? I think I've just seen one image of a square shield being used

5.Should every faction have access to the chainmail wearing Talwarbaz unit or just Gujarat?

6.Should Arab/African/Afghan/South East Asian Muslim mercenaries be a lot more expensive or rare for non-Muslim factions to recruit or did they not mind too much who they fought for? Same with european mercs, should they be cheaper/more common to Hindu factions over Muslim factions?

7. I've found a single reference to Swiss archers being used by Albuquerque, not sure if it was referring to crossbows though. Were there any European Non-Crossbow Archers in India?

8.Right now on the campaign map the jagdalpur and raijpur regions are too large, I'd like to split both of them in half vertically, what 2 regions should I add? or forts?

9.Are charges too strong currently?

10.What were the main ethnic groups in Thatta/Sindh/Multan/Jaisalmer/Bikaner?

11.In the Portuguese Codex it shows nayars/sinhaleese as being almost black and the orrisans/badaga in south india/bengals/gujarats/etc as being almost white. Were the native darker skin races found primarily in the malabar and ceylon at the time with the rest of India being light skinned?

12. Were Jat or Purbiya used by Gujarat/Ahmednagar at all?

13. Should Koli Cavalry be added? I read a mention that Ahmednagar or Gujarat used them, should Malwa/Khandesh also have access to them? Anyone else?

14.Were Maratha cavalry used by Gujarat/Golconda/Bidar/Khandesh/Berar/or Malwa?

15. Do all deccani use habshi? what about Malwa or Khandesh?

16. Did Orrisa recruit many mercenaries?

17. Iv'e read about the Arrakan using a Ronin samurai bodyguard, I was going to include a heavier cavalry unit and a lighter spear infantry unit, were there any other Japanese or mercenaries outside of Ayutthaya Kingdom and Arrakan?

18. What about Chinese mercenaries?

19. I need help finding ruler pictures for the following rulers in 1519, Arrakan, Orrisa, Garha, Marwar, Bengali, Berar, Ahmednagar, Gujarat, Malwa, or suitable alternatives

21. When should generic indian units end on the map? should gujarat and mewar get access to all of them? should marwar have generic Indian cavalry and swordsmen?

22.I need to make generic levy and light cavalry/infantry units for the pakistan area (gujarat-sindh-punjab) so I don't have to make them for each individual group (Khokar/Gokhar/Sindh/Jat etc) -What should I call them?

23. Range difference for indian longbow vs turkish style (recurve composite) bows used by infantry vs turkish style bow used by cavalry? Also reload speed differences for each? Also were any horse archers using indian style bows?

*24. Any Music suggestions

***26. I played a game as the Mughals and a few turns in Babur was killed when a settlement he was occupying rebelled, Is there anyway to prevent rebellions from killing named characters?

20. Did Thazata and Minkhaung of Mrauk-U really not have any children? They both lived to be in their 50's, but since Minkhaung was killed by Min-Bin I wondered if records of his children were destroyed so Min-Bin didn't look like a savage for killing his kids, but I guess for now I'll give both of them the infertile trait

30. Who all recruited Ahir? Any record of Gujarat/Malwa or the Deccani sultans recruiting them?

31. Any way to make elephants able to attack small gates like they did in RTW? I've tried changing their tag to artillery since that would also make them move slower than cavalry on the campaign map, but it's causing a crash, I guess because artillery isn't supposed to have 'mounts'

32. Are there any 'extra' units, that are non-historical or repetitive, I should get rid of to make the rosters simpler? And are there any groups-tribes/castes/unit types that played a large role as soldiers that I'm missing?

33. Does the map seem incomplete by not including any important factions? There is a gap in eastern india that could be filled by Haihaiyavansi or a Gond kingdom/Shri lanka also doesnt have any native factions.

*34. What would the Kingdom of Mrauk U be called in their native language? Rakhaingpyi? Mrohaung?

38. The main mod 1519 still needs quite a bit of work with custom models/balancing of units/historical names and family trees/supply system scripting/historical events/map terrain/settlement development. What do you think should be the first things to work on?

37. I'm making a small submod starting around 1500AD, the map will cover the western half of india all the way to the red sea. Any ideas for a basic roster for Kingdom or Ormus/Tahirids/Imamate of Oman?

40. Right now the only javelin users I have are light infantry and light cavalry, should any medium or heavy armor users have javelins? Should all javelin users be primarily skirmishers or should some just have one javelin that they throw while charging

27. What were Akbar's 15 grade of musketeers? I haven't been able to find names, assuming at the bottom we have the lowest grade musketmen and the highest would be the Shah-Ala Regiment, which others should be included?

28. Did the Maratha employ Habshi slaves or African Mercenaries?

29. How should the Berar roster compare to their deccani nieghbors? should it just be like the golconda roster but with more gond units?

31. When you have a moment please have a look at the rosters for the Mughals in the 1725 article and the 1519 article and tell me what you think, for a lot units I'm unsure if they should be included in both mods-I've marked them with ?'s

35. Would the Tranvacore army differ any from the Zamourin's?

36. Some factions will have two or more 'sets' of names, for Hindu/Muslim/European Officers in the same faction, is there a way so the names stay matched up? I dont want new characters to have european first names and muslim last names

39. Please post any good quotes you come across from any of the time periods, (400-100 BC) (1500-1850), or anything from ancient Indian texts

41. I've seen paintings of soldiers at a Mughal parade and a Mysore surrender with pikes and I've read references to Afghan pikemen in the 1700s, but I've also read that a lot of the pikes seen in paintings were ornamental. Should i include any noneuropean pikemen, with phalanx removed of course?

42. On Africans, the Portuguese mostly imported Bantu? so they get a forest bonus, while the Ethiopian Traders get a desert bonus. However I've read conflicting things on Habshi, either that most of them are from Ethiopia or that the Ethiopian traders mostly imported Bantu peoples to be used as Habshi, do you know which was more common?

43. I've read that Mysore imported quite a bit of camels, so should camels be available for importing at any large port?

44. For some reason the mine building is buildable in all regions even without mineable resources, how to fix? FIXED

45. What kind of cavalry units should the Garha Kingdom have?

46. Recruitment is messed up, the building text file is correct but I just checked the campaign, many units are not available for Delhi, Vijayanagara has many non-local units even though those units have hidden resource requirements in the building text, Malwa looks fine, I haven't checked any other factions or had this error before. Any ideas for a fix? {FIXED by deleting map.rwm file}

47. What regions wouldn't have any elephants available at all? I know they were more common in Eastern India but I've also seen a painting of an elephant hunt in Bikaner

61. Need to make unit's more unique, would any of these groups have an affinity for any color(s)?
Afghans/Ahir/Arab/Arrakan/Baluchi/Berad/Burmese/Elite Indian Units/Gujjars/Habshi/Hindu/Jat/Koli/Konkans/Muslims/Orrisan/Persian/Rumeli Turks/Santhal/Sindh/Tartar Turks/Teluga

60. Any Idea for Starting Dates for Berad Musketmen/Mappila Musketmen/Purbiya Musketmen/and Generic Indian Musketmen and Generic Afghan Musketmen for nonMughal factions?

59. iirc I read somewhere that the Kshatriya caste was absent in Assam, less common early medieval Orissa, and in Kerela the Nairs took their place, is there anywhere else in India where there would be no Kshatriya?

58. wikipedia says the Bhimthadi horse breed was mostly developed in the 1600-1700s, if that's true then what will Maratha cavalry ride?

57. Should Sadhu warriors be available in small amounts to any large temple or should they be restricted to certain areas

55. Were the 'Turkish' Mercenaries in the Delhi, Bengali, Deccan Sultnates, and Vijayanagara primarily Tartar Turks or Rumeli Turks or a mix?

51. Where should chainmail and felt horse armour be uncommon or not used at all due to the heat?

53. I need more generic character names for each factions agents/females, if you have any suggestions for common historical names please share, =At the moment the factions that are particularly lacking are Arghun, Garha Gonds, and Kozhikode

52. When should Cannon towers and rajput musketmen become available to mewar/marwar?

50. Chainmail wearing Afghan infantry should be rare as most soldiers that could afford metal armour would ride horses, right?

54. The largest areas of work left I believe are 1. Unit Stat and Cost Balancing 2. Importing Models/Textures from other mods and modifying some 3. Scripting, so I would like to get started on each of them and finish them quickly, I'll post more to the scripting/unit balance articles so please share any info you have. My computer is limited on harddrive space so do either of you have any experience or interest in helping import models from other mods? after we've gotten permission of course

-48. Does the terrain around the Sahyadris look mostly okay or does it need a lot work?

49. I've read that at the battle of Talikota their were mercenaries with steel crossbows on the Deccani Sultanate's side, were would they have originated?

63. A few large cities did not have walls, anyone know how to handle that without making a seperate building chain for walless cities?

62. Were Afghan Mercenaries in Bengal/Arrakan very common before the fall of the Delhi Sultanate?

56. How common and where were Free Abyssinian Mercenaries vs Slave Habshi, I've read Arrakan and Gujarat both had some free African mercenaries, any other places? (I wanted to limit them in factions that used a lot of habshi to keep down the already bloated rosters.) Also should there be Free Abyssinian Swords/Spears/Cav or were they mostly missile troops?