Civilization Idea: the Chams (2023 Update)

[KarstHillFort77]

@dan1

Chams weren’t known for their cavalry archers or cavalry in general really, but at least they have had "the few ones " for a short time as you said ,also Khmers and Malays have cavalry archer in this game while their cavalry archers were worse than Chams’ in the real history.I suggest Chams only miss elite cavalry archer but still keep cavalry archer in the archery range.By the way, they could not
only get horses smuggled from Song China but also buy some from Dali Kingdom in history.

Chams changed their religion for many times but they were Hinduists during most of the game’s timeline.

Not sure where you learned your history, from what I know SE Asian civs in general weren’t well known for the use of cavalry or cavalry archers.

I suggest removing the cavalry archers of Khmers and Malays as well and give them elephant archers instead. Burmese and Vietnamese can keep their cavalry archers since they both received more influences from East Asia than the other SE Asian civs.

The fact that the Chams had access to smuggled horses is already reflected in their access to Knights (though not Cavaliers and Paladins), I guess that’s fair enough. The Dravidians probably also had access to traded or smuggled horses in history, and yet they don’t even have Knights.

And I’ve never heard any mention anywhere about the Chams buying their horses from Dali, not sure where you pulled that out. Champa and Dali didn’t even share a border there were several states in between.

And the fact that they’ve changed their religion several times due to outside influences doesn’t really warrant them to be a monk focused civ, not sure how you think but at least that’s my opinion.

Really stop nitpicking about these small details I already tried my best to stay faithful to history. If you aren’t satisfied you can write your own version.