Help needed building Trading Posts/ Units

[Campidoctor]

Greetings,

I've done a search for the following on the Forums but did not come up with any answers so.....


I got the game 2 weeks ago and thought I bought the Official Strategy Guide I can't find the pre-requisites for a trading post ( I have Egypt and I want to put a trading post there but it is not offered on the building parchment- yes, there is a Keep there...)

Also why is it that I have the pre-requisites for - Almohad Urban militia ( I have Granada & a town Guard); Sahraran Cav. (I have Egypt with a Horse Farmer) But I can't build either unit??? (I'm playing the Spanish faction)

Any help will improve my game-Thanks.

[Gaius Julius]

Welcome,Campidocter http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

To build a trading post you must have some tradeable goods,eg. silk,linen,gems, etc.

You said you're playing the Spanish.
That explains why you can't build:
- Almohad Urban Militia- Almohad faction
- Saharan Cavalry- Turk or Egyptian faction. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Basileus]

You need tradeable goods and a port then you need ships to be able to trade..some units are faction only those you mentioned are almahoad units except saharan cavalery which can be built by the egyptians and turks i think..

[Campidoctor]

Gaius Julius,

Thanks- I remembered wrong and mis-spoke when I said Egypt- I meant Tunisia. I went back and checked and no tradable goods there ( I was thinking that the goldmine yield there would have inc. if it province was opened up to the Mediterranean.....)


As for my Spanish faction/ Almohad Militia question;

I thought I read in either the manual or Strategy Guide that one should try to take certain provinces (like Switzerland) to exploit there regional troop (pike men) so I guess I took it wrong and what they said was take these provinces so that those units can't be used against you.


Meus gratia.

[Xicote]

Look on the paper fold out about info on units and how to build them etc.


Quote[/b] ]Saharan Cavalry- Turk or Egyptian faction

You can build Saharan Cavalry in Morroco and Algeria ie. Almohads train them aswell.

[Rowan11088]

No Campidoctor, that's not what they meant. Some units, like the ones you mentioned, are faction-only (and possibly limited to certain provinces in addition to that). I suppose you could try to prevent enemy usage of them by taking those provinces, but only if the units are limited to province as well as faction. There are many units, however, which are limited to a province but not a faction. Swiss pikemen, for example, can be built by any faction which has Switzerland (and the required buildings of course). Check the unit list that came with the game: each unit's picture there will give you info on how to build it. if it is limited to a certain religion, it will be in a green (Muslim) purple (Orthodox) or goldish (Catholic) square. if limited to a faction or factions, there will be the flags on the picture of those factions that can build it. if limited to territories, those will be shown. if two things like this are shown, i.e. a province and flags, you need to both be one of those factions and have the province, it's not an either or kind of thing.