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Tinto Flavour #17 - 13th of May 2025 - Vijayanagar & Indian regional content

Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Fridays Tuesdays & Fridays in which we take a look at the content of Europa Universalis V!

Today we will talk about three topics: the generic content available for most of the countries in India; the unique content of Vijyanagar; and other regional content available for other Indian countries. A meaty TF, so let’s start without further ado!

Let’s start by talking about the generic content available for Indian countries. There are some reforms, policies, and units that are available to most countries, like these:

Nayankara System.jpg


Poligar.jpg


Paik System.jpg

The Paik System unlocks three types of levies, depending on the age:

Early Paik.jpg

Paik.jpg

Late Paik.jpg

There are also Elephant units:
Elephant Cavalry.jpg

Elephant Auxiliary.jpg

And a building that produces Ivory from Elephants - For those of you not so tuned into the Tinto Maps series, we’re representing African elephants with the Ivory resource, and the Indian elephants with the Elephants resource, so it can be used for units (as Elephants), or for other economic purposes, by transforming it first into Ivory with this building:
Elephant Hunting Grounds.jpg

Advances like:
Saqiyah.jpg

And a unique type of vassalage - The Samanta System, with 3 different subject types:
Samanta Feudalism.jpg

Samanta.jpg

Maha-Samanta.jpg

Pradana-Maha-Samanta.jpg

Finally, let’s take a look at the flavour naming of the states in the Hindu Indian countries:
Indian Estates.jpg



Let’s now take a look at the unique flavour content of Vijayanagar, a country that in 1337 was leading the resistance against the Sultanate of Delhi in Southern India:

The newly founded Mahārājya of Vijayanagar stands strong after the momentous defeat of Delhian troops in the Deccan, with Mahārājā Harihara Sangama and his brother Crown Prince Bukka Raya Sangama leading the fight against the Muslim rulers of India.

Although the Vijayanagari rule has only recently been established, the current situation in the Deccan promises us a rapid rise to power if we can utilize our momentum correctly, as we can secure control over important trade routes between China and Europe, and profit from exporting valuable goods from our resource-rich lands.


Vij Country Selection.jpg

Vijayanagar1.jpg

Vijayanagar2.jpg


Vijayanagar has a unique policy for the Administrative System law:
Vij Rajya.jpg

It also has unique advances, as usual:
Vij City of Victory.jpg

Vij Bunds.jpg

Vij Bund.jpg

Vij Carnatic Music.jpg

And it also has several flavour events, such as:
Vij Prophecy of.jpg

Arirayavibhada.jpg


Administration of the Realm.jpg

Multilingual Court.jpg


Vij Astadiggajas.png

Astadiggajas.jpg

Another country with unique content is Orissa, which has a very interesting setup, with some countries as Samanta subjects:
Ori Country Selection.jpg

Orissa1.jpg


Ori Anka Year.jpg

Ori Elephants.jpg

Ori Elephants 2.jpg

Ori Odia.jpg

We also have unique content for countries such as Bengal, Bahmani, and Pandua. For example, in the first case, it starts as three independent countries, which in the case of unifying the region and forming the Sultanate of Bengal:
Bengal.jpg

Would get contents and events such as:
Pandua.jpg

Finally, we also have a bunch of content for other formable countries, that will work as ‘regional powers’ with unique content such as advances, etc. This is a list of these formables:
  • Deccan
  • Gujarat
  • Hindustan
  • Marathas
  • Mughals
  • Nepal
  • Punjab
  • Rajputana

…But since this Tinto Flavour is already long enough, you’ll have to find out about it when playing our game, as that’s all for today!

Remember that tomorrow there will be a Tinto Talks about Hinduism, Jainism & Sikhism; on Friday a Tinto Flavour about Delhi; and next Monday we will have the Tinto Maps Feedback for India. Cheers!
 
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Wont be saying that this is late because you know, maybe the tuesday TF comes out at 15:30!
 
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Can India change its religion to islam without islamic conquest as well? As in propagation or ruling dynasty converts or event historic figures migrate and carve their islamic nation in the region out?

Islam was also a massive social disruption to the cast system in India. Are these societal differences reflected in any form or shape?
 
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If I recall right Vijay has much less population (2 v 3M I think) then the kingdom to the south. What makes Vijay a better start? Do they have unique flavor relating to conquering Delhi?
 
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Is the reduced food production and possible nobles (presumably landowners) something that also appears on other raw material producing buildings? We haven't really seen that before, it wasn't on the fiber crops farm for example.

Why does the icon for Possible Nobles have a heart?
 
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Wait, these guys were known for resisting the muslim invasion, but then in 1444 all their expansion is to the south in hindu territories, what a twist!
 
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Can India change its religion to islam without islamic conquest as well? As in propagation or ruling dynasty converts or event historic figures migrate and carve their islamic nation in the region out?

Islam was also a massive social disruption to the cast system in India. Are these societal differences reflected in any form or shape?
Indian Islamic countries have a different set of unique content, we'll show that on Friday, along with the unique content for Delhi.
 
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How far in the future is there mapped content for Vijayanagara? Does it go all the way to its (Potential) troubles in the 15th century, and later fall, or do you only have events for its rise?
 
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How many nations at this point in time have flavour? Does Cahokia have stuff going for it?
Around 60 are the 'core countries with flavour' that Johan has mentioned, but we have several dozen more that are not considered in that category, and already have some type of content; some examples may be Panduas or Greenland, as they have some advances, or some other countries with a few flavour events.
 
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It would be really nice if the game told us under "annexation limits" if a subject is of a type that can't be annexed rather then the desciption, same thing for it CAN cancel the relation on its own under the "rules" and same goes for military access since they seem give food access
 
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Can we see the full overlord benefits for the Pradahna Maha Samanta?
 
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