Quote Originally Posted by Servius1234 View Post
In case anyone was curious, the one way you can prevent Marathas from launching naval invasions (short of destroying them) is just blockade their ports. It's much cheaper than garrisoning every region you own, especially in the Carribean. This makes excellent sense for any faction that is trade good rich and wealthy land poor. Such factions (like GB) will benefit most from control of the seas (and trade nodes) and can also keep land force costs down by simply blockading all ports of enemy factions.

Marathas is so badass because they have the 2nd best strategic position in the game and I'm guessing their units must be superior to those of the Mughals because they take over India EVERY time. The Mughals have to worry about Marathas, Mysore, and Persia or Ottomans. Marathas just have to worry about Mughals and Mysore. Marathas also have TONS of ports whereas the Mughals seem to only have one.
yes i jsut started playing as Maratha's after avoiding the game for a long time.

Maratha tech is much highre than muglas, who hardly seem to have any gunpowder units. on the other hand if the maratha's didnt have this advantage they would never survuve thier starting position. but it would definitely be mroe fun if the mugals could put up more of a fight. for all the provinces they have their armies seem very weak at the start of the game.

on a realted note can some kind soul point me in the direction of unlocking all factions? i would like totry playing as the Mugals as well. how is playing one of the locked factions? is the agme really buggy when you do this?