Bali Jatra

[Juggernaut8704]

Yesterday was Bali Jatra, a festival to celebrate Sadhabas (Ancient Mariners of Kalinga) who travelled to Nusantara (Java-Sumatra Islands) with Ships called Boita that you can see in the picture below.

You can see the same ships around Malay Harbours too put as decorations:

People sing this song:
Aa ka ma boi, pan gua thoi…
Aa = Aasadh, Ka = Karthik, Ma = Margashira, Boi = Baisakh
“The four months to travel.”
Pan = Betel Leaf, Gua = Areca Nut, Thoi = Kept
“Food is kept for the journey.”

Farewell to the Mariners who are about to venture into Kalinga Mahodadhi (the Kalinga Seas, now called Bay of Bengal). On this auspicious day every year the mariners departed for a four month long journey into the treacherous seas guided by the winds of the retreating monsoon.

[PeakHornet46539]

The devs should release the boats as a scenario editor unit.

[Hzdrafxx]

We should talk about adding the Kalinga as a civ now. It has a demi-god styled ruler to base the campaign on:

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And there are so many references to it in the game already.

They appear in Dravidian Campaign (as enemy Kalinga), Bengali Campaign (as enemy Utkala), Malay Campaign (Indian Traders).

Wiki says the Indian Monastery is based upon the Kalinga Architecture.

There is also the Rekhadeul Temples that belong to Orissa aka Kalinga:

Please add destruction animation to Rekhadeul Temple and Trowulan Gate

Please add destruction animation to recently added Svan Tower as well. [Screenshot 2023-10-19 223801] These are all beautiful huge structures but are made useless by the lack of a destruction animation.

Now I got to know even the Malay Harbour is having a Kalinga styled boat as decoration too.

[FernandesI]

Pretty cool, also very interesting. I hope Kalings get included eventually.

[Hzdrafxx]

Huge glaring gap in the map of India right now will be filled by the Kalingans.

Found this on Reddit.

[PeakHornet46539]

The Kannadas need to come in cavalry and elephant civ… To fill the middle Deccan gap. The Kalingans with their elephant heavy focus seem to already exist as the Bengalis.

[Hzdrafxx]

The north cluster of three dots of Dravidians meant to represent the Kannadigas. The one in Ceylon meant to represent Sinhala, while the rest four dots is Tamils.
What will they have special if they are indeed split and become a new civ? Can you sell it to me?

[Mahazona]

Sri Lanka is also in an odd spot represented by dravidians.Guy who drove chola away is listed as a dravidian leader name.

[Hzdrafxx]

Looking at the map, maybe Afghans can also be split into a separate civ. They have three dots away from rest of the cluster of Hindustanis.

[Mahazona]

@Hzdrafxx

What will they have special if they are indeed split and become a new civ? Can you sell it to me?

Deccan region is a mix of cultures sultanates rashtakutas and more so it can have an unusual tech tree.

Eg cav archers camels and BE line with bbc.UU can be a knight replacement as well.

[Hzdrafxx]

@Mahazona That sounds cool.

@PeakHornet46539 Bengali is Buddhists and Muslim. Kalinga is neither. And need it be elephant heavy? It can be designed differently. As I understand it needs to be a naval civ more than anything.

[Hzdrafxx]

Can they represent the Deccan Sultanates? I would very much like to see them as a variant civ of Delhi for AoE4. If it is in AoE 2 it will be even better.

[TungstenBoar]

Would they have camels? I think there arent camels in Deccan

[Hzdrafxx]

I think he wants them to represent the sultanates theme. By that logic Malays should also get Camels.

[Mahazona]

@TungstenBoar

Would they have camels? I think there arent camels in Deccan

They have camels in deccan area.

[Hzdrafxx]

I don’t think so.

[Mahazona]

Deccan borders Rajasthan which has tons of camels.Also I have been to that area and there are plenty of camels roaming around so its not too much of a stretch to give them camels.

I highly doubt australia qualifies as camel country even tho the map shows it.

[Hzdrafxx]

Hmm, okey if you have seen it then it must be correct. A camel civ with battle elephants combination will indeed be cool.

[Mahazona]

Making up a unique an interesting tt for sinhaleese is more difficult,the dravidian tech tree is pretty much it.

[Hzdrafxx]

How about a healer monk archer unit? I think it might fit any new Indian civ.