Satara is an attractive first objective because the game places India's only admiralty there. Capturing it would sharply reduce the enemy's ability to sustain naval forces while also taking an advanced university. Goa and Ahmednagar could protect the new position's flanks before an advance toward Hyderabad. A southern move comes first because nearby Mysore could counterattack more quickly than the Maratha Confederacy's main field army near Isfahan could return. Naval infrastructure, roads, threat timing, and land campaigning all form one operational plan.
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Capturing an admiralty to cripple naval power in India
An offensive begins with the region's only admiralty because taking naval infrastructure can weaken an opponent before the inland advance develops.