At their peak, the Dravidians encompassed southern India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia.
Honestly, it seems the developers decided, perhaps due to a lack of creativity or resources due to deadlines, to make the tusks… or perhaps out of prejudice, believing that the people from the south fought without any armor, and therefore must be weak…
Because it’s impossible for the Dravidians to be so trashy, if in real history they dominated and defeated countless different kingdoms and armies. Remember, the Khmer themselves asked the Dravidians for help in dealing with a particular problematic kingdom, the Malays.
Honestly, the Dravidians need a rework.
I hope the developers see this… and also improve the Dravidian stables, as they used cavalry and war elephants to dominate other civilizations and regions… and if they were as bad in the game as they were in real life, how did they win?
I haven’t played AoE2 in a while (in the future, maybe I’ll play again, if at least the Dravidians get a Rework), so I don’t know if the balance is still the same as in the two videos below. There’s probably been some change in the cost of some units, but most likely the unit stats are still the same:
Here in the videos, you can see that the battle elephants are complete TRASH! They shouldn’t be the WORST, they should at least be somewhere in the middle. I hope they fix it at some point.
Archer elephants are apparently good in the medieval age, but they start to deteriorate in the imperial age. T.T.
I repeat, the Dravidians weren’t a civilization that spent its existence solely on defense or without conquering anyone… they literally conquered, and how can they be so bad for a civilization that conquered so many different regions? It doesn’t make sense.