total war grand campaign gunpoder invention

[pontypool]

i completed englands objective of taking jerusalem and other regions BEFORE gunpowder was invented, the mongols already invaded but ive not seen gunpowder invented, come to think about it i never saw the timurids invade either. does this mean events dont happen once you reached your goals? when should gunpowder be invented and where can i tell what the date is on my game.
thanks.

[pevergreen]

You can change the turns number to year by:

medieval2.preference.cfg

open that with notepad/textpad/wordpad

there will be a line saying

show_years_as_turns = 1

or something like that

switch the value from a 1 to a 0 or a 0 to a 1

[homefry]

Gunpowder becomes invented after the Mongols arrive.

Even though the Mongols have rocket launchers that's just the way the game works.

[pontypool]

That isnt what i wanted to know. Because i completed my objective with england and won the game, i then choose to continue playing for "even greater glory"
at that point do events not happen anymore, such as the mongols invading? because i thought this might be why gunpowder is never invented or the timurids not invading.

[Moah]

If you keep playing things keep happening. Gunpowder will be invented and the timurids will arrive.

As to a Mongol invasion that depends on your game.

Sometimes you get the Great Mongol Shuffle instead, where they wander here, they wander there, they have a picnic, they wander off again. Very annoying when your best armies are parked at all the bridges and mountain passes expectantly.

[Ciaran]

It depends on when you finished your objectives. Gunpowder comes along somewhere around 1260, the Mongols arrive aound 1230 and the Timurids... I think somewhere in 14th century.

[icek]

in 1.2 gunpowder event is in 1290.

[PrestigeX]

Gunpowder becomes invented after the Mongols arrive.

Even though the Mongols have rocket launchers that's just the way the game works.

Thats because the 'invention' of gunpowder, is relative to the context of how it was brought to the European continent...
The very first gunpowder weapons were actually used by the Chinese as early as the 10th century (AD) with a weapon known as a 'fire-spear' which could shoot a spike a few meters and a flame would spout for 10 seconds which would burn the enemy,

but it was the europeans who really developed the technology into an effective field projectile weapon later on.