Guess the unit names II (Turk screenshot)

[the_mango55]

A couple reasons:

1. the gun is fat, just like the other handgunner
2. someone said janissary handgunners are a confirmed unit

Huh, is this the late unit selection?

I like that they have Jannissaries, but I would also be disapointed if the turks didn't get arquebusiers.

[Nathanael]

Hmmm, I just looked at the faction selection screencap again, and we may have JHI and Ottoman Infantry backwards. It looks like its the Ottomans with the funny helmet. Although maybe as they upgrade they get the helmet too? Because what we've got labelled as JHI looks like the stronger unit.

Regarding aquebusiers, it looks like the Turks may not get them. With that and the lack of crossbows at all (in MTW they lacked just arbs/pav arbs), they seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to long range anti-armor missiles. They do have a lot of standard archers, however, and maybe the Janissary handgunners have longer range than the standard.

[Nathanael]

Oh, and Hungary's faction selection screencap shows a unit called Battlefield Assassins that looks similar to the 24-man unit, so it probably is hashishin or battlefield hashishin or battlefield assassin (if they decide to lose the flavor of the name).

[Furious Mental]

That Janissary is holding an arquebus. It is nowhere near as fat as the hand guns you see in other screens, nor is it as fat as that thing in the row above which is obviously a hand gun. Compare it to the arquebus being held by the Portugese arquebusier in the other thread. They're exactly the same. That's a Janissay arquebusier.

[Nathanael]

Hmmm, I looked at the original, larger screenshot, and I think you may be right. I'm not 100 percent positive because perspective might be throwing things off, but I'll agree that it doesn't look as fat as the other handgun units. At the same time, it doesn't look nearly as long as the Portugeuse unit's arquebus, though.

Can we get a source on the Janissary handgun video?

[ChewieTobbacca]

The Janissary gunners are called: Janissary Musketeer

At 2:44 in the HQ version of the Medieval 2 Total War videos (Chapter 1 - Overview), it shows a video of them w/ the highlighted name firing on some English troops I believe