Tech trees

[Rodion Romanovich]

Yes, the order wasn't German, but there is, afaik, no other order where there were enough Germans in at the time. The German branch of hospitallers, the Johanniterrittern (unsure about spelling), is well known. Anyway, more research is needed before we can decide anything about the knight order units.

BTW, a good combination of triggers for unlocking training of the units in question could be:
1. capture Jerusalem
2. year 1000 or later
3. have at least one cathedral
4. and some more secret stuff to make it slightly more random, perhaps also add a certain time (say 10 turns) from no.1 to no.3 have been achieved until the units become available.

[Meneldil]

And of course, someone would have to learn scripting

I was pretty good at Warcraft 3 scripting, but never tried with RTW.

[Jarlabanke]

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03698b.htm

About the knights of christ

A couple of the orders exist to this day f.e
http://www.teutonicknight.com

[Meneldil]

Yeah, I think Hitler tried to get ride of the Teutonic order, and Malta is still the home of the former Hospitallers.

[Jarlabanke]

He did actually, but only for the duration of his regin. Though I really can't say I understand why.