Yes, you could be right about that, cotton must have been a novelty factor for the Greek perspective. Pre-Mauryan Indian armies are a bit more difficult to reconstruct since we don't have any visual or even proper textual data representing their equipments and tactics.We only know that elite like Po...

You'll have to make new units to show Elite Armoured North Indian or South Indian infantry, so this is your call. Not feasible, I am afraid. The earliest Indian list in the game covers 500 BC - 319 AD, with the Mauryan period starting in 320 BC. I do not envisage splitting the list for a quibble ov...

Came across this, this should clarify pre-Mauryan Ancient Indian soldiers and their armour. It seems Indians wore cotton made armour as a standard issue.

Source: Gems in the Lotus by Abraham Eraly

You'll have to make new units to show Elite Armoured North Indian or South Indian infantry, so this is your call. Ancient and Classical Indian Military manuals classified soldiers into: 1. Hereditary Warriors (Fulltime soldiers from Military families, usually armoured in scale or mail) 2. Paid Soldi...

The elites would be like this, this is from the Mauryan to Pre-Gupta period (330 BCE-250 CE) Magadha, Eastern India, 200 BCE Clay disc depicting chariot and archer from 200 BCE, Pataliputra, Bihar.jpeg Satavahana Soldiers, Deccan, 2nd Century BCE to 217 CE satavahana soldiers.jpg Satavahana Armoured...

From Mauryan period onwards at least, North Indian Melee soldiers wore armour, in the South you had a more complicated case, there existed both very heavily armoured, lightly armoured and bare chested soldiers, sometimes simultaneously in the army. Here you can see the Mauryan and Shunga period foot...

Example of Gupta period (4th to 6th century CE) Quilted Cotton Armour

No, almost all of the infantry in Classical India would be wearing Quilted Tunic. Only exception would be the elite Maula Troops, the hereditary warriors maintained as fulltime professionals, these would wear mail or scale armour. Protected status is good enough, I just want Indian Close Figters to ...

It is sort of hilarious as well on the part of the AI. Savalakha/Sawalakh in Hindi and earlier regional variants only means the number 1250000, it means one and quarter lakh (a lakh means a hundred thousand). So ordinarily if Sawalakh should mean just a number, Sapadalaksha is the same number in San...

Thank you so much! I will be looking forward to play the campaign!

Could anyone please tell me if it is realistic to expect a future patch that adds in the Chauhan Rajput faction in the game? It would really mean a lot in the way of getting an authentic Medieval Indian experience. Also, do the Gujarati and Malwa factions use the Indian Rajput roster or just North I...

So I currently own FOG 2 Medieval, and am planning to buy the Kingdom with the new DLC Rajas and Tribes. I saw some gameplay footage and previews, and would like to make a few suggestions regarding some aspects to make it more historically accurate, and possibly more enjoyable. Firstly; please add t...

From roughly 8th century CE. The earliest I've seen in sculpture form comes from 8th century CE Rashtrakuta Empire in the Deccan. Before that another sort of platform was used in the 5th century as seen from the remnants of the Ajanta cave paintings, but painting is too damaged to really make out wh...

Thanks for the Update! However, in case there are further updates, may I suggest a few points in Indian Lists that I made in the Indian armies, specifcially about the Indian Elephants and Indian Close Infantry. To be brief, the Indian Hindu North, South and Rajput Armies should have elephants with H...

Just adding a few representations of the Gupta period cavalry. Both are from around the early 5th century CE. One is a coin that depicts Emperor Kumaragupta slaying a rhinoceros, the other is plaque of a horseman who seems to be a mounted archer considering the quiver he is carrying. This should giv...

Question - on the Hoysala friezes and elsewhere, you often see what appear to be unarmored riders on barded horses. I assume it's an artistic convention to sometimes depict warriors without armor that they would normally wear in battle, as the Greeks sometimes did? To be honest, it is difficult to ...

Finally a Deccan Satavahana (3rd century BCE to early 2nd century CE) barded elephant with armored mahout for anicent Indian armies



Hopefully all this material will prove useful for the Indian army lists.

Some more photos 11th to 12th Kiradu temple, it seems by 11th century the number of heavy cavalry had increased. kiradu2.jpg Same temple, a soldier in mail tunic with an interesting crooked sword, and female soldiers as well it seems kiradu3.jpg More images of armored elephants and the manner of fig...

This is from a 13th century Hoysala temple. It seems by this time the number of barded horsemen had increased even in South India.

Here are some barded Indian cavalry and elephants. These should be taken into consideration for the Rajput Army of 1050 and South Indian armies and Vijayanagar armies (Not applicable for South Indian armies contemporaneous to the Vijayanagar armies) The pictures are from the 11th century Kiradu temp...