to 1009. Gujarat was conquered in two wars. I inherited a five-year-old war in 1036 and was unfortunately on the losing side of it – when I started, anyway. The Salisuka-Pratihara Subjugation War was won in 1040, giving me a couple of counties.

I then cleaned up the rest of the kingdom in the Mlechchha-Pratihara Subjugation War from 1044 until 1048. This was an interesting one because most of the rest of India joined to defend Pratihara due to the existing defence pact. What I learned is that they were nowhere near coordinated enough and were far too busy dealing with internal conflict. I steamrolled them thusly. This bodes well for the future of my conquest of India.

Following this was my first war spilling outside of the bounds ofIndia. Over the centuries, some of the middle-eastern rulers had managed to acquire a few counties in the western kingdom of Sindh. I was able to declare the Mlechchha Holy War for Bhakkar in 1071, winning it just a year later.

1082-1084 saw the Mlechchha-Lambakanna Subjugation War for the De Jure kingdom of Lanka. I was actually in a non-aggression pact with the Maharaja. I care little for the paltry loss in prestige, and the opinion malus for breaking the pact only impacts other Dharmic rulers, all of whom I intend to conquer anyway. This little bit of political manoeuvring also allowed me to side-step the defensive pact against me. Because I had a non-aggression pact with Lambakanna, they weren’t a member of the defensive pact; having ended the