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Tinto Flavour #18 - 16th of May 2025

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

Today, we will be taking a look at the flavour content for the Sultanate of Delhi, the most powerful Indian country in 1337 - but not without a few curveballs to tackle. Let’ start without further ado:

A series of swift and legendary conquests in the last century gave birth to our great Sultanate of Delhi. With territories under our jurisdiction that span from Deccan to the fertile fields of Lahore, none other has dared measure up to the prestige and status of our accomplishments.

However, it has become apparent that we have overextended our authority across such a big Sultanate that it is nowadays quite difficult to control. Our enemies are many, and they covet to undo our great heritage. To the east, our subjects in Bengal have started questioning their masters, while our southern territories have long disputed our hold over them. And the Hindu countries of Southern India may further entrench their resistance to our rule, led by the rising power of Vijayanagar.

We trust the guidance of Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq, whose watchful eye may safeguard our lands and prevent our downfall...

Country Selection.png

As usual, all UI, 2D and 3D are WIP.

Delhi.png

Delhi Subjects.png

Delhi Diplomacy.png

The starting situation of Delhi. There’s a bug with the coloring of subjects of subjects, but Gaur has a subject itself, Taraf.

This is the starting Government setup content for Delhi, and other Indian Muslim Sultanates, as well:
Delhi Estates.png


Reform Indian Sultanate.png

Mamluk Barracks.png

Reform Taluqdar Nobility.png

Taluqdar.png


Dharmic Dhimmi Communities.png

Protected Faith.png

The last one was already shown, but it’s super important for Delhi’s starting setup, as only 2% of its pops are Sunni, the state religion, as shown in the Country Selection screenshot.

Related to this, a tab that we usually don’t show, the Rebels one, as it’s also quite relevant to Delhi’s start:
Rebels.png

This is not final, but gives an idea that managing Delhi at the start may not be easy…

Delhi also starts with a Work of Art:
Qutb Minar.png

And here are some of its advances:
Advances Origin of Hindustani.png

Advances Indo-Persian Culture.png

Advances Turkic Conqueror Roots.png

Advances Reintegrate Provinces.png

Advances Afghan Nobility.png

Delhi’s advances are quite interesting - the country will need those modifiers…

But the most interesting for Delhi is its narrative content, because soon after the game starts, a situation will pop up, ‘The Fall of Delhi’:
Fall of Delhi1.png

Fall of Delhi2.png

Fall of Delhi3.png

Fall of Delhi4.png

Fall of Delhi5.png

Fall of Delhi6.png

Fall of Delhi Share of Power.png

Fall of Delhi Panel.png

So, when the situation is active, several events may trigger, which may influence the ‘Share of Power’ of the situation:
Fall of Delhi7.png

Fall of Delhi8.png

This modifier scales based on how many countries support the Opposing side.

This might end up being the situation some months after it starts, if the player is not careful enough:
Fall of Delhi9.png

The situation may last for years, even decades, creating a very challenging gameplay for Delhi, with even more events popping up:
The Mad Sultan.png


Habshi.png

Habshi2.png

The end requirements of the situation are the following, with different possibilities:
Fall of Delhi End Requirements.png

One of them is a disaster that may trigger to Delhi, making the situation even worst:
Dissolution of Delhi.png

Dissolution of Delhi2.png

Dissolution of Delhi3.png

While this disaster is active, some historical revolters may appear: the Bahmanis, Malwa, Gujarat, or Jaunpur. The player can choose to either keep playing as Delhi or to start playing with one of them.

Besides that, Delhi has dozens of other non-Situation, non-Disaster related events, such as:
The Old Seat of the Sultanate.png


Ghulaman.png

Tughlaq Salves.png


Hisar e Firuza.png

… And much more, but that’s all for today! This will be the schedule for next week:
  • Monday -> Tinto Maps Feedback about India
  • Tuesday -> Tinto Flavour about Sweden, hosted by @Johan
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about Unit Graphics, hosted by @SaintDaveUK
  • Thursday -> Second ‘Behind the Scenes’ video!
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about Muscovy/Russia
Cheers!
 
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Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Tuesdays & Fridays in which we take a look at the content of Europa Universalis V!

Today, we will be taking a look at the flavour content for the Sultanate of Delhi, the most powerful Indian country in 1337 - but not without a few curveballs to tackle. Let’ start without further ado:



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As usual, all UI, 2D and 3D are WIP.

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The starting situation of Delhi. There’s a bug with the coloring of subjects of subjects, but Gaur has a subject itself, Taraf.

This is the starting Government setup content for Delhi, and other Indian Muslim Sultanates, as well:
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The last one was already shown, but it’s super important for Delhi’s starting setup, as only 2% of its pops are Sunni, the state religion, as shown in the Country Selection screenshot.

Related to this, a tab that we usually don’t show, the Rebels one, as it’s also quite relevant to Delhi’s start:
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This is not final, but gives an idea that managing Delhi at the start may not be easy…

Delhi also starts with a Work of Art:

And here are some of its advances:
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Delhi’s advances are quite interesting - the country will need those modifiers…

But the most interesting for Delhi is its narrative content, because soon after the game starts, a situation will pop up, ‘The Fall of Delhi’:

So, when the situation is active, several events may trigger, which may influence the ‘Share of Power’ of the situation:
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This modifier scales based on how many countries support the Opposing side.

This might end up being the situation some months after it starts, if the player is not careful enough:

The situation may last for years, even decades, creating a very challenging gameplay for Delhi, with even more events popping up:

The end requirements of the situation are the following, with different possibilities:

One of them is a disaster that may trigger to Delhi, making the situation even worst:

While this disaster is active, some historical revolters may appear: the Bahmanis, Malwa, Gujarat, or Jaunpur. The player can choose to either keep playing as Delhi or to start playing with one of them.

Besides that, Delhi has dozens of other non-Situation, non-Disaster related events, such as:

… And much more, but that’s all for today! This will be the schedule for next week:
  • Monday -> Tinto Maps Feedback about India
  • Tuesday -> Tinto Flavour about Sweden, hosted by @Johan
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about Unit Graphics, hosted by @SaintDaveUK
  • Thursday -> Second ‘Behind the Scenes’ video!
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about Muscovy/Russia
Cheers!
Question: will there be any specific culture for Muslim rulers of India? Given how meticulously you portray cultures here, I think it would be wrong if the Mughals had the same culture as any hindu indian ruler who would conquer Delhi, given most Mughals and Mughal elites were of Iranian or Central Asian origin (as late as XVIII governors of key provinces were Iranian migrants). Maybe there could be emerging indo-Persian, or urdu culture, something like that? Or at least correctly portraying culture of elite characters?
 
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It took some more time to cook today's Flavour; we hope you enjoy it, though!
 
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Question: will there be any specific culture for Muslim rulers of India? Given how meticulously you portray cultures here, I think it would be wrong if the Mughals had the same culture as any hindu indian ruler who would conquer Delhi, given most Mughals and Mughal elites were of Iranian or Central Asian origin (as late as XVIII governors of key provinces were Iranian migrants). Maybe there could be emerging indo-Persian, or urdu culture, something like that? Or at least correctly portraying culture of elite characters?
It could potentially be interesting to have an Indo-Persian culture and Urdu language, noted!
 
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It took some more time to cook today's Flavour; we hope you enjoy it, though!
Nice flavour! Will it be possible to revoke the non conversion of population privilege, and start some conversion attempts? By game's end, around 15% of subcontinent's population was Muslim I think..
 
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I'm guessing making Delhi into a duchy is what speeds up their decline, however what exactly does being a duchy rather than an empire do?


Or is it a thing we're you'll only become a duchy after losing loads of locations anyways?
 
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Incredible TT, there's so much content for the Fall of Delhi, and the integration of a situation and a disaster mechanic to represent the same is incredible. I do wanna ask though, as someone who intends to play as the 3 rival Bengali sultanates under Delhi, is it possible for Saptagram to unify and form Bengal while remaining a subject of Delhi? Matter of fact, can you show us what kind of subjects does Delhi own - which of them are Samantas, which are Mahasamantas etc at the start of the Campaign.

Also, can I see the screenshot of the event which pops out the Bahamanid Sultanate pretty please?
 
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Quick proofreading note: in Establishment of the Ghulaman, "known of protecting their rulers" should be "known for protecting their rulers."

Anyway, seems like Delhisplosion is extremely likely when AI is at the helm but is avoidable with skillful play or blind luck.
 
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Please make it so that there is a system for Muslim rulers to choose to tolerate specific religious groups, (i.e. take jizya from christians/israelites but convert pagans, for instance)

These estate privileges just block conversion for everyone, not just for dharmic people. So if the Delhi sultanate ruled over Christians they would be unable to convert them either, even though the privilege is specifically meant to be for Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. This does not make sense.
 
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