The Thirisadai: A Fantasy Unit From Age Of Empires II Based On A False Wikipedia Article
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I remember when this was posted on the sub the first time.
I had hoped the devs would make some changes to the game.
It’s pretty interesting how amateurishly the Wikipedia page is written.
Whenever I get around to Wiki pages like that I take them with a grain of salt.
It would still be ahistorical, but I wish they would at least rename the thing.
The article was debunked before the game released.
I’ll point out, as the original author of the post in r/badhistory, that the motivating factor for all this was that the thirisadai was being presented as a fact in various books, twitter, websites and finally aoe2 (its inclusion in the Dynasties of India DLC was the straw that broke the camel’s back).
There are plenty of ahistorical, incorrect or speculative units (i.e.
war wagons, Malian gbetos, obuchs) in the game but everyone knows that they are ahistorical/incorrect and for fun but this wasn’t the case with the thirisadai.
And I should point out that the editors on Wikipedia investigated the thirisadai further and found no evidence as well and so the article on the Chola navy has now found a place on the [List of hoaxes on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia).
I’m kind of surprised this happened, but then again, it’s not exactly the first ahistoric AOE2 unit.
Don’t worry nobody will ever know because nobody plays water maps 11
From the previous time this was posted:
A big claim here is that they couldn’t find one of the cited articles via search engines and databases, and therefore it must be fabricated.
That may be true but its possible that it just isn’t available online for whatever reason.
Lots of older books sitting in libraries have not been ocr scanned and are not available online.
The important thing they do point out is the fact there isnt much other scholarship about “Thirisadais” anywhere.
That would suggest that they didn’t exist, because there is no shortage of documentation for other aspects of the Chola military.
If one article about samurai was fabricated, it wouldn’t matter because there are hundreds of other articles on the subject.
That isn’t the case here.
The significance of the Chola navy isn’t in question here.
Just the existence of those specific classes of warship.
It makes perfect sense for the Dravidians to get a naval unit, even if this particular name is dubious.
Just rename it!
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