I'll say that AoE2 is historically accurate most of the time and is a fantastic game. It's my favourite game but the historical inaccuracies in the Indian civ makes me cringe really hard.
First, Indians didn't use camels expect for the people who lived in and around the Thar Desert. So giving them the best camels doesn't make sense to me. Saracens are way better contender for having the best camels (in other words - give Saracens the Imperial Camel instead)
Second, Indians used Knights (i.e. horse heavy cavalry) a lot. But for some freaking reason, they don't even get Knights and every other non-meso civ does.
Third, Indians were really well known for using elephants in wars and battles. They had the best fighting elephants. For example, Alexander the Great ended his campaign in India mostly because of their powerful Elephants. In contrast, in AoE2 they don't get any elephants in their stable (while even the Vietnamese get them) and their Elephant UU is the worst elephant unit in the game. How tf does that makes sense.
All of this, excluding the fact that it doesn't make any sense to have a civ called "the Indians", it'll be like having a civ called "the Europeans" (*during the Medieval Period). India is and has been a very very diverse sub-continent. It has 3000 languages, 1500 ethnicities and double the population of Europe. If you go back in time, in India during Medieval times and ask people all across the sub-continent their nationality then, none of them will call themselves Indians. They'll call themselves Bengali, Cholan, Rajput, etc. This is because there was no country called India and no Indian nationality before the British. Today people of India proudly consider themselves Indians but they didn't in the Medieval Period and the game is set in the Medieval period
TLDR: Indians should get Knights and Battle Elephants and their Camels should be nerfed because I consider the civs should be at least somewhat historical accurate.
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