Spain

[Spark]

In settlement details, there's a button that shows you the entire building construction tree as well as where all the faction's units offered by each building. That should answer all your questions.

[baron_Leo]

Hasn't got Spain pikeman in citadels? Portugal has aventuros...they are not bad, actually they pwn cavalry. (but i find them slow and don't build them, I only trust in Knights of Santiago - man they look good, and with maxed out XP after some battles they are just the coolest cavalry unit (I know they are not the strongest, but the coolest - no discussion:-))

[General Zhukov]

...I only trust in Knights of Santiago - man they look good, and with maxed out XP after some battles they are just the coolest cavalry unit (I know they are not the strongest, but the coolest - no discussion:-))

Could you tell me, and this would probably be of interest to other Spain players, when in the game you got offered the Santiagos, and which settlement they appeared in? If you have any clue what you did to trigger them, that'd be nice too. I played a whole Spanish long campaign and the guys never showed. Did a successful crusade too.

[sapi]

This should help

Various Knight's Chapter Houses
General joins crusade: +25 all settlements
General abandons crusade: -25 all settlements
Recruit Specialist Knight: +10 settlement, +1 others (knight type tied to guild type)
Governor Chivalry >4: +5 settlement

St. John's guild get a +10 settlement, +1 others bonus when the settlement has muslim neighbours
St. John's guild get a +10 bonus for all settlements when you declare war on a muslim faction.
Teutonic guild get a +10 settlement, +1 others bonus when the settlement has pagan neighbours

[baron_Leo]

I got them in Tolouse after capturing that city by a crusade (guess who called that crusade:-) I did nothing else. Is it possible you didn't get it offered because there were already guilds in your castles (This guild will show up only in castles)? By the way I never got them on the Holy Land onlay in Spain and Southern-France...maybe this is also a matter

[General Zhukov]

Right, think I got it:

1) Spam Crusades and generals joining those crusades
2) High Chivalry Govs. in possible host castles
3) Declare war on Muslim factions, make peace, declare again to raise chances.

perhaps a combo deal of all those simultaneously would help me.

Thanks guys/gals.

[baron_Leo]

2) High Chivalry Govs. in possible host castles

If that would be necessary I would never get any Templars, Hospitalers or my beloved Knights of Santiago. All my generals are sooooooo evil. Record is executing 1812 prisoners...without ransom chance. (sinister laugh)

[dopp]

It seems that you can get castle-only guilds in cities and vice versa when you convert them. The guild "score" remains even when the settlement has been converted to another type, so if you gain a few more faction-wide points you will go over the threshold and get offered a guild, regardless of settlement restrictions. In this way I received swordsmiths for Palermo and Toulouse, and horse breeders for several castles.

[Lorenzo_H]

How (and round about when) do I get a hold of Knights of Santiago?

Also, I can't seem to remember ever upgrading my towns, though I got messages saying "Leon is ready to upgrade because it has enough population". What exactly is nesesary to upgrade a town/city?

[PaulTa]

Well first you upgrade the walls, and then you can upgrade other buildings, like town center, militia barracks, etc.

Knights santiago come from crusading often (successfully).

[Lorenzo_H]

Well so far I have done 2 crusades. Both were successful and one of the times my troops were the ones which captured the Crusade target. Right now the Pope has just called a Crusade on Constantinople. Do you reckon that if I take it I will get Knights of Santiago? Bear in mind that I skipped the first crusade of the game...

[Wizzie]

To those of you saying the Knightly Orders/Knights of Santiago appear only in castles:



And Zaragosa has always been a city throughout that campaign, never converted to castle etc.

P.S.

Knight of S is good, but they are so hard to reinforce. ONLY one castle produces them. Building more green troops to merge with depleted (but seasoned) units, brings down the experience of the seasoned troops. So the only choice, (to keep the experience) is to go all the way back to that one castle to retrain.

In my game I specifically denied many guild offers to keep several of my cities free for Santiago chapter houses, and it worked. At the moment I have KoS in Toledo, Ragusa and Zaragoza, making retraining fairly easy. To get more than one chapterhouse offerings, make sure to build alot of Knights Santiago from whatever settlement gets the first chapterhouse, as this boosts the likelyhood of getting further offers.

[Lorenzo_H]

Are you really at turn 1200?

When I open up my faction overview it says I only have 71 turns left to conquer 45 territories! I only have 13 so I am going to have to get a move on if I want to win. Am I thinking correctly?