We need a Mahishmati civilization as well
All hail the true king, Baahubali!!!
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LoL fictional Mahismati Empire of Bahubali movie? 
Vijayanagar is the closest thing you can get to represent the fictional mahishmati.
Since
mahishmati is defined as a hindu empire with
udaygiri to the north (border with oriyas)
kalakeyas in south (probably referring to dark skinned tamils)
arabian sword trade from west, wootz steel breaking it.
and the main city looks like hampi.
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Kannadigas arenât any whiter than Tamils, mate 
Also Tamil lands were in Vijayanagara.
But yeah, we need a Magizhmathi with unique unit Bahubali who can make human trebuchets across walls 
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Not a real civ, and this is bad trolling.
It was a joke following from above, where the comment clearly says fictional kingdom. 
We need a Mahishmati civilization as well
All hail the true king, Baahubali!!!
And their unique uinit will be chopper chariot! lol
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works for tamils (more specifically cholas)
India is such a place if you split and try to include everyone youâll find 20+ new civs and still some will feel left out, which is not possible to accommodate at all. But if you try to find the reason for this demand youâll realize that current Indian civilization is too focused on Mughals that is why players intrested in other great kingdoms are feeling neglected. This was very obvious from very beginning since FE expansion Indians were given middle eastern architecture, camels and gun powder, Taj Mahal as wonder and even the symbol of sun and lion is inspired from Mugal flag.
With later expansions it was tried to accommodate rest of India with new architecture which if you watch carefully has elements from different regions of India- monastery is inspired from east( Kalinga, Bengal, Assam), Houses with high walls appear from west ( Punjab, Sindh), castle looks like itâs inspired fom Shaniwar wada, Pune ( central India ) and rest of buildings are of davidian style. Similarly peculiarities of different Indian kingdoms can be added to represent majority of native Indian kingdoms and not invaders. Even if civilization balance needs to change so be it but will make the game more interesting. Including strength and weakness of native indian kingdoms is the best option.
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You can also have different architecture sets from the subcontinent:
For civs from North-West India:
For civs from East India:
For civs from South India:
For more information: http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/kefa106.pdf
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Chariots were out of use in warfare well before even the Guptas because they were cumbersome and hard to manoeuvre in front of mounted units and tight infantry formations.
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also the design of indian chariots doesnât look like war chariots. itâs design with the umbrella is not made for wars:
it was mostly used for ceremonial purpose.
egyptian/nubian chariots from the ptolemic era look lot more practical for use in battles:
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Chariots in the early days of the Mahajanapadas were indeed used for warfare, but not in AOE2 timeframe.
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Trample damage?
That could solve that issue.
Trample Damage is already the domain of Battle Elephants, a few UUs, and the Slavs Infantry after Druzhina UT.
I do not think Light Cavalry should ever have Trample Damage, as it would be too strong on a unit that costs only Food.
It would also cheapen the other civâs sources of Trample Damage, which tend to be very expensive.
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I mean units like knights/cavaliers/paladins/boyars/keshiks
They would be unbalanced, if they had Trample Damage.
Paladins and Boyars are incredibly strong units as it is. Giving them trample damage would completely ruin the game.
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true, but the indians never learned
not kidding, the cholas used chariots
I am 5000% sure that the Cholas (the relevant ones, not the ones from 100 BCE) did not use Chariots in warfare. Chariots had gone out of use in the subcontinent in the battlefield about 600-700 years before that.
Chariots were however used for many other purposes, including transporting army units, king tours, general transportation, sports and racing, etc., so yes, they did use chariots. They just didnât fight with them.
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ya, i meant generals, generals could empower the units,
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