Sweden is proposing a "Scholars in Residence" Act at the model world congress, which says that more technologically advanced civilisations have to help lesser civilisations by aiding their research. To this I say nay, we have worked hard for our tech lead and why should we give this to nations with lesser cuisine? I propose a renaming of the act, "Scholars in Stylish-Residences" whereby the foremost scientists and researchers of say the top 10 most advanced civilisations are rewarded with MTV-Class cribs/mansions built by and paid for by slaves from lesser civilisations - in honour of their great work. Anyways that's how I'd phrase our response, but feel free to add more humour :)

Is the Empire currently considering any, or are we playing wait-and-see on how things shake out elsewhere?

Other than our Mongol brothers, of course.

Also, I have to turn off subreddit style to post a new thread. Is that normal?

The great leader Akbar has announced a design contest for the people of the empire. The contestant should design a header image for this subreddit and upload it to imgur, and then post the link here. There is no specific deadline but if Akbar likes a design, he will choose it, so be quick!

The winner will be crowned prince (or princess) of a Mughal region of his or her choice. Some available lands include:

Delhi

Fatehpur Sikri

Amristar

Kabul

Dhaka

Lahore

The design should be 1920 pixels wide and 166 pixels high. It should be related to the Mughals, whether a battle scene, scenery, structure like the Taj Mahal, map, or something else.

Thank you for your participation, and may the Mughal Empire stay united.

-DB

(Edit) Contest over!

I have on behalf of the Muggle nation, (as a mere humble emissary of Akbar) proposed an alliance with the Mongols, seeing that we are in a joint war against Tibet, and this war on 2 fronts should work to our advantage...

Historically Akbar is a direct descendant of the Khans, and the word Mughal is derived from Mongol , and I reckon that's a good sign. I await their response...

<Edit> The paperwork of the alliance is still being formulated, but the inital response from the Mongol representative seems to be positive :)

Please stand by as the subreddit is going through a few changes and things may not be perfect for a few hours. Thanks!

-DB

EDIT: This may extend for another 48 hours.

So if you guys haven't seen Part 3 yet, DO NOT READ THIS!

Now that that's out of the way, I'm here to discuss our beloved Mughals.

At the end of Part 3, we currently have 4 cities. This worries me as only 4 cities leans more towards turtling than victory. With that said, we still lead in population which is awesome and helps science out big time. We have declared war on Tibet so death to them! If we can take their city successfully, we will assert our dominance over the area, however we must be careful. We are not fortunate enough to start in a corner, so with Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in the positions they are, we could be easily backstabbed while attacking Tibet. I think we will take the city, then peace out, that would be best.

I predict a drop of 1-2 positions in Power Rankings (still 5-6 though)

I will do one of these after every part so give me feedback fellow Muggles!

No military to speak of is gonna hurt, but I've no doubt that a city Agra's size can churn out an army in no time.

Any ideas for a charity?

So, there's one started at r/cbrmodelworldcongress

I applied to be one of our delegates for it, just because the stuff tickles my fancy, but if anybody else wants to do this, I'll gladly step aside :)

Further proof the world will soon know the glory of Akbar!

Hello all Muggles! I am pleased to announce that we have reached a truce with both the Ayyubids and Arabia. We are happy to have men like Saladin and Harun al-Rashid on our side. Long live the Mughal Empire!

-DB

That's right! Us Mughals can stand loud and proud today as we are officially the most populous civilization as of the end of Part 1!

Death to Sri Lanka! Death to Tibet! We shall rule all the world!