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Ashoka

Wonderful. wood + some stone + plaster + ancient indian arches + spike ornaments + even a gateway = yay. Nice work Lord + Enrique.

Funny how it came out like that, because that's how it was then. Archers soften up the army, elephants rush and break it. XD Nice thread. With good ideas.

All the Indian emperors had female guards. But maybe in honor of Megasthenes who mentioned Chandragupta had them. Put Chandra on the chariot with female guards and Ashoka on the elephant? Chandra could go on the chariot unit that looks like this.

Bronze sapara style sickle-sword, 1307–1275 B.C.; Middle Assyrian period, reign of Adad-nirari I

Lord, you're a beast.

Here's two handed battle axes. From Ajanta Cave 10, 1st-2nd century BC.

They put a lot of patterns on the shields. At least some of them did. There's a symbol similar to the one in the Alexander movie on there.

And probably why it dates it to "Ajanta" Because of the foot soldiers in the Ajanta paintings. Maybe there is literature mentioning them in the Mauryan period, but Im not even sure.

I have mentioned this before about these curved swords aren't really historically accurate for this period. Most of the soldiers are carrying these swords. http://huntington.wm...79&detail=large

Yeah, just with out the medieval carvings. Make it longer like this example. Longer than the Kopis.

This is very good, except the modern/medieval additions like the ornamental designs.

I dont know if the Mauryans did that. Those first elephants are worker elephants or temple elephants. I dont know why they carve it either.

All based on Assyrian reliefs.

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Maybe reduce the number of factions.

http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/sea.htm

Idk if you wanna add this or not, but there are coloration differences. Some Indian elephants are two-toned like this. two toned Mono-toned Monotone ones make up the bulk.

That looks 100 times better.

Shaped more like this. Hilt like this.

I noticed the curved sword for the Maruyan looks like a copy of the western one. The hilt for example is different in the Indian one.

Battlefield turbans

I always thought Enrique's tower looks more believable. Like I can image some Mauryan archer in there. It looks like the towers you would see on the reliefs. Looks like a piece of the gate way.