How the hell can you get El Cid?

**Taiwan Legion** · 03-19-2007, 16:31

there's no way to actually bribe him. I heard that in original medieval, the strategy of spain is basically get him over to be on your side. However, it's almost impossible to get him in medieval 2.

**Odin** · 03-19-2007, 16:41

Originally Posted by Taiwan Legion

there's no way to actually bribe him. I heard that in original medieval, the strategy of spain is basically get him over to be on your side. However, it's almost impossible to get him in medieval 2.

Well in the origianl MTW that was a viable option, but there were far more generals in MTW every unit commander had the ability to command an army and since you created them you could keep going until you got a good one with command stars.

I find in MTW2 I lack alot of good generals, it takes many turns to get them a nice compliment of them.

Anyway EL cid? I put in the money cheat as Spain got 100k florins tried to bribe him with a 3star diplomat, he wouldnt bite. I asked in the spain strat guide if anyone had actually done it, no answer.

Id love to know to.

**Callahan9119** · 03-19-2007, 16:52

lol if your in iberia you should have no problem getting a few 10 star generals....why u want cid besides for novelty?

i was the moors one time and i got the starting faction heir to 9 stars before he was 30, cid was a stepping stone

**Odin** · 03-19-2007, 18:10

Originally Posted by sabutai

lol if your in iberia you should have no problem getting a few 10 star generals....why u want cid besides for novelty?

i was the moors one time and i got the starting faction heir to 9 stars before he was 30, cid was a stepping stone

Hey thanks man that was really helpful.

Do you know the answer to the question?

**Callahan9119** · 03-19-2007, 18:17

its bad enough trying to buy rebels, try a million dollars

doubt u can buy him

**Odin** · 03-19-2007, 18:29

Originally Posted by sabutai

its bad enough trying to buy rebels, try a million dollars

doubt u can buy him

I agree with you dude, I along with the original poster are just curious as to what it does take?

I mean why have the feature in the game if it dosent work?

I dont like to moan to much about games not my think, i get how things go in producing games, but this bribing thing is particularly annoying.

**TireBandit** · 09-16-2022, 02:16

I am a huge El Cid fan and so I would make sure he joins my faction every time I play as Spain or the Moors. Sometimes I even send a diplomat across the world to bring him into my service outside of Iberia and away from the ungrateful rulers there. Just as you can do the add_money you can also do force_diplomacy when trying to bribe him and acquire his army or city. You can do anything really, even force a win on any auto resolve if you truly wish. Unfortunately, I may be 15 years too late with this reply for some but perhaps it will help others now that medieval 2 gained a little popularity again when the mobile version came out. There are many other ways that involve going into the games files if you wish to as well but I am by no means an expert as my experience only goes as far as a few things with SF Editors for the new total wars. Lastly, the best way to get El Cid to lead your armies to glory is to harass CA until they come out with a medieval 3 total war lol

**TireBandit** · 09-16-2022, 02:33

Also, for some you may not be able to use the force diplomacy if you downloaded the game online. Now that I think about it I had the CDs as this was before I had a steam account years ago. To work around this simply give yourself the money you need and also knock down his chivalry, loyalty, and command so that he won’t be so reluctant. You can of course give him the traits back after as well as get rid of your excess cash if you so chose using the same commands. I can vouch that this works as well as this is how I do it with the steam version