Advance Towards India
Realm 47: The Matchlock, The Araba, and the Fall of Panipat
WORLD G — CENTRAL ASIA, BABUR & SURS
MICRO-REALM 01
Kabul Base
- Capture of Kabul (1504).
- Strategic mountain stronghold.
- Eyes turn eastward.
- Seeking Indian wealth.
MICRO-REALM 02
Early Invasions
- Probing Punjab borders.
- Bhira and Sialkot.
- Gathering local intelligence.
- Testing Lodi defenses.
MICRO-REALM 03
Daulat Khan's Invite
- Disgruntled Afghan nobles.
- Invitation to invade.
- Strategic fatal mistake.
- Babur seizes opportunity.
MICRO-REALM 04
Gunpowder Tech
- Ottoman matchlocks acquired.
- Ustad Ali Quli.
- Mustafa Rumi's cannons.
- Revolutionary battlefield tech.
MICRO-REALM 05
The Tulughma Tactic
- Steppe flanking maneuver.
- Pincer cavalry movement.
- Enveloping the enemy.
- Lethal battlefield mobility.
MICRO-REALM 06
The Araba
- Leather-bound cart wall.
- Defensive mobile fortress.
- Protecting slow musketeers.
- Breaking elephant charges.
MICRO-REALM 07
March to Panipat
- Crossing the Indus.
- 12,000 veteran warriors.
- Facing massive odds.
- April 1526 arrives.
MICRO-REALM 08
Battle of Panipat
- Dawn of April 21.
- Cannons break lines.
- Elephants panic, trample.
- Decisive Mughal victory.
MICRO-REALM 09
Fall of Ibrahim
- Last Lodi Sultan.
- Dies fighting bravely.
- Afghan center collapses.
- End of Sultanate.
MICRO-REALM 10
Dawn of Mughals
- Delhi and Agra.
- Humayun secures Koh-i-Noor.
- Khutba read aloud.
- New empire begins.