ing Indian Power Boosting
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Greetings, fellow lords, ladies, and conquerors! I have been playing 1vs1 ranked for about 120 hours and I find the Hindustani to be very effective in most situations. Their villagers are inexpensive, allowing for more economic and military growth. Their blacksmith is great for all units, camels have high damage against buildings, and hand canoneers can take a few punches. The Gulam is a formidable unit and can be a nightmare to Britain and Ethiopian players.
I’m not saying they are totally overpowered, I just want to know what everyone else thinks about them. I really enjoy playing the Hindustani, and I haven’t found any strategies or civilizations that they are particularly weak against.
I hope you all have a great day and a successful game!
Definitely OP. They versatile on most maps.
I think you got it. They have an answer to everything, eventually, and no notable weaknesses. There’s a Gurjaras-like counter civ aspect to them, but the balance is off. All their counterplay options are both good at countering opponents and resistant to being countered.
Want to counter ghulams with longswords? Well, the ghulams are faster and pierce. Want to counter hand cannoneers with skirms or hussar? Well, the hand cannoneers are tankier than normal and have longer range.
Their eco bonus has the same problem. Normally when you see a civ with an eco bonus, that bonus creates a situation where one player has an advantage that may not always apply and the other player has options and incentives to negate that advantage. But “cheaper vils” always applies and its effects can’t be negated.
I agree that they’re not “absolutely busted” but the sum of their parts is definitely overpowered. It’s hard to find a way to strategically put them between a rock and a hard place. They’re like the pre-nerf Sicilians of civ design: resistant to your civ’s bonuses. They need to lose some of that versatility imo.
They aren’t grossly strong at any given strat like brits or franks. They’re too strong because they are well above average at every single stage of the game. Zero civs can say the same.
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Hindustanis shine in eco & incredibly strong Imperial army. They can hard counter every single composition out there in Imperial.
They just have such a hard counter to anything you can try against them. It’s whack
They are a meta breaker, good against archers and knights alike.
Where they may struggle is against infantry civs, sure they have amazing hand cannons, but prior to imp their best bet is Xbow or CA, which is not something they generally tech into.
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Still the civ is overall very powerfull in 1v1’s and team games alike, they have lost a bit of strenght by losing halb, but there isn’t a situation where you wish you had another civ there instead.
They are super strong because they have strong responses to cavalry and archers, if castle age infantry was more threatening more civs would have good answers to them
Played as them last night for the first time in ages. Their hand cannoneers feel unfair.
They’re really great but feel boring to play IMO. Camels are generally boring to play as they’re mostly for anti cavalry and Ghulams are almost an eagle warrior reskin. I wish they had some cooler unique unit. Not a big fan of HC either. I often go Cav archers with them just to mix things up although they lack parthian tactics. Still a dope civ in terms of versatility.
They are above average.
I’ve never played hindustani yet so have nothing to add but awwww may your next game be awesome too
You know, I was in the camp that they weren’t completely ridiculous until I played a few games against them in a row..and realized that on top of everything else..they get hussars. Just…why. That’s like someone who has already body slammed you to the ground in the corner of the ring, kicked you in the head a few times then just saying “oh yea, let me give you the Banzai Drop too because I can do ALL the things.”
Basically they are average earlygame. Eco bonus is good, but nothing special in dark and feudal age. They are a bit weak to crossbow spike and dont have that instant knight spike to kill quickly. After early castle age is where they shine and onwards.
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