Gunpowder?

[Saracen]

Well it says gunpowder has been invented in 1260. I have built the workshop and the Guild and I do not see any units??? What's the story please?

[[RDH] Spetz Natz]

If you are playing post-patch (and I'm certain you are), any weapons or units requring gunpowder technology is not available until the Late Period (1320?) http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Dijeeh]

Think of this as an advantage, It gives you time to build higher level Gunpowder workshops and Bell Foundries in your provinces before the units come availible

[Cazbol]

.... or think of it as the golden opportunity to waste money for 60 years.

[A.Saturnus]

I meen no insult to you Saracen - had enough newbie questions myself - but maybe anyone coming to this forum should get a message "post-patch units are only available in certain time periods".

[Saracen]

No problem, I appeciate the help. Is there a list somewhere available of the appearance of post-patch units?

[pdoan8]

You can go here to check for some of unit info:


http://www.totalwarassembly.com/waracademy.cfm?StatSet=v11


Early: 1087 to 1204
High: 1205 to 1324
Late: 1325 to the end (IIRC 1451 or 1453)

In v1.1 (after patch), all units will only available in their designated period. Most of the Early units can be trained in the entire lenght of the campaign with some exceptional like the Varangian Guard which is only available in Early and High (they will disappear in Late, I mod the file so I don't know for sure if it's correct, but they are certainly not in the Late custom battle before I mod).

Before you decide to build a certain combat unit producing building, you can right click on the icon and read the info. It will say what type of unit will be available either immediately or with additional requirement.

All "gunpowder" units are available in Late, so you have 65 years (from 1260 to 1325) to build up all requirement.