Which guild do you build?

[vonsch]

I like Theology Guild (especially where I have a Cathedral) to get pretty nearly insta-Cardinals.

Assassin's Guild is a must if you want to use assassins; they're worthless without one.

Swordsmith is decent if you have a forward troop training center. Too much hassle to sent troops to be retrained, though.

The rest strike me as pointless (other than the Hospitallers/Templars/Teutonic Knights buildings).

I just added in some of the appropriate ancilliaries to the thieves, merchants and explorers guild to try. The merchants can get a merchant_clerk if they hang around a guild city a while. Generals can get a money counter.

The thieves guild cities can pop pickpockets and spyglasses too now for spies. Testing with fairly low chance, 5% per turn without expending movement points, I think.

Also the explorers will pop more of the movement ancilliaries for generals that sit in their cities a while. Stacking several of those should help for things like crusades. I did quartermaster and intrepid_explorer, I think. Was a chance of the latter in some circumstances, I expanded that and added in the former. Hmm, if admiral can be tested for separately, naval_navigator is another.

Hmm, interesting, master_of_horse can pop from gm_horse_breeders_guild, but master_of_archers could not from woodsmens_guild of any sort. Changed that. Swordsmiths can pop master_smith too. And the various ponies come from horse_breeders_guild, which makes sense. Heh, princesses and diplomats can get those. Hmm, oddly, generals can't. Easy to fix.

I think more ancilliaries makes management of agents/generals more interesting.

Anyone get a princess with a yappy_little_dog yet? There sure are a lot of princess ancilliaries and triggers considering the relative rarity and short duration of "life" for them. Be better if that attention had been lavished on the generals.