New 3d Unit: Knights Templar

**Leet Eriksson** · 08-04-2006, 22:38

I thought the Hospitaller had the black and white robes. and the Templars are red and white.

**Templar Knight** · 08-04-2006, 23:21

Yea, The Templars wore red and white while the Hospitallers wore black and white

**Randarkmaan** · 08-04-2006, 23:26

I thought the Hospitaller had the black and white robes. and the Templars are red and white.

Yeah the Templars wore white robes (symbolizing purity) with red crosses (symbolizing martyrdom, at first their uniforms did not have red crosses, this was granted to them by some pope), but their SHIELDS were partially black and partially white... Not with a cross or anything just the upper half of the shield black and the lower half white, just like their banner, except that had a black cross in the white area.

**Templar Knight** · 08-04-2006, 23:34

Pope Eugene III gave the red cross to them in 1148.

**Furious Mental** · 08-05-2006, 05:38

You'd expect them to wear a long robe over all that mail, since they were in the Levant.

**Tiberius maximus** · 08-05-2006, 06:57

well i think it could be made to look more intimidating, in that the knight himself looks really small compared to the other units we've seen.

oh ya i dont really like the blue horse, i dont know how historically correct it would be but i think a white coat on the horse too would look better,

**Furious Mental** · 08-05-2006, 12:53

Anyway it's a nice looking unit, but I'm tired of all these Western European knights. Let's see some Mongols!!!

**Kourutsu** · 08-13-2006, 22:15

Originally Posted by Templar Knight

Yea, The Templars wore red and white while the Hospitallers wore black and white

Ooh. They really hate each other.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 08-13-2006, 22:45

i hate the skins. templars=red+white hospitallers=black+white. look at Stronghold: Crusader knights.

i was flamed on TWC just because i hated the skins. crazy people.

however somewhere in the 1200's, i think they started to wear there own coat of arms?

**Kongsbak** · 08-13-2006, 23:29

It look's rather correct from a historical point of view, however the i believe it was common for the Templars to also dress their mounts in white, and being an independent faction, showing the colors of nation is somewhat.. wrong i guess....

**poo_for_brains** · 08-14-2006, 12:42

But in the game they aren't independent. When each faction launches a crusade, or gets a chapter house they get templars. They might come up against another faction with templars and so the horse's barding is just an easy way to make each faction's shared units distinguishable.