I have played as the Indians and the Perisans alot lately, and seem to think that the Indian triats just aren't that great... I think either they need to be balanced by giving them more unique units, i would give them Mid, Gun and Enlightenment Heavy Infantry units, Mughal Infantry, Mughal Royal Infantry(My justification is that the Mughal Empire had a huge military, numbering over a Million men, and that was just their standing army not including reserves or those they could conscript) and Marathi Riflemen. I think they would be better at killing other Heavy Infantry. I might even give them some wealth bonus aswell, considering alot of trade with europe originated there, and china of course, maybe a larger wealth commerce cap with the Caravan bonus... I mean I like the UUs they get, but the fact that persia gets them aswell and even more UUs just doesn't seem fare to me, their triats don't seem to justify me using them in any situation...

Your Guys' thoughts... Do they need any changing at all? Whats been your experience with them? Do you agree with me, if not what would you change?

i like the indians.

They get blocked from all directions very quick by other nations, so yes i would give them some more UU's.

Why don't you mod it so it can have these?

Also, you may want to add:
Gurkhas - from the British Raj
Mahouts - like war elephant, but ranged (armed with muskets)
Mughal cavalry - as he Mughals were descendants of the Mongols, these should be like Keshiks or Sipahi.

If you need any historical refs then I can help as well - I am Indian, so it may come out a bit biased though!

Most of the civs should've been expanded on. I was disapointed that Rome only had 3 unique units, and America only has 4. Japan should have had some WWII units. They also should've made the units more effective. A Aztec AtlAtl unit isn't much better than a regular javilineer. I usually play my "normal games" with Germany, because they are one of the only ones with a decent amount of units.

It's totally ridiculous! It's not proper to have 2 civilisations with the same units! Should add another unit (Ghurkas and Mughal cavalry are great ideas) and deleted the Mahout and all variations (not war elephants) from Persians and replace them with, say, Scythed Chariot.

And how would your chariots work?

Scythed Chariot would replace, say light horse and would be more powerful and travel faster on rugged terrains

a gripe is that the Indians, Turks, and MesoAmericans use African architecture for Ancient period. That's just inaccurate as it is absurd. How do you spread architecture overseas before sailing is even invented?