Iv become obsessed with getting silver chevron cav early game by stacking cav exp guild bonuses. Playing as sicily i decided that getting a hq in bologna, a master in florence, and a st johns hq in milan would be a quick and cheap way to get that(st johns as opposed to comparatively expensive horse breeders). After a while though i began to suspect you cant obtain a swordsmith hq and master. Bologna got the swordsmith hq, milan had the st johns hq but florence never got past basic swordsmith guild, despite being a citadel and me building dis. norman knights 3 a turn for a long time. Does me disbanding the dis. norman knights after they are built have something to do with it? I was doing that in bologna as well and that didnt seem to hurt. What is it? Can you not have a swordsmith HQ and a swordsmith master without conquering a city with a master already?