Special Items (eg Sword of Mohammed)

[The Spartan (Returns)]

The sword was Charlemagne's, the "Father of France" - which was why it was so astounding that she found it.

dont you mean Grandfather of France?

[IrishArmenian]

If I remember correctly, at Hattin, Saladin had a piece of the true cross to inspire his Christian (Many Armenians, yay!) mercenaries and to demoralize his also Christian foes. Very smart win/win situation.
Cool items, I'll have to remember these when I play the game. (I think the post man is holding out on me)

[Comrade Alexeo]

If I remember correctly, at Hattin, Saladin had a piece of the true cross to inspire his Christian (Many Armenians, yay!) mercenaries and to demoralize his also Christian foes. Very smart win/win situation.
Cool items, I'll have to remember these when I play the game. (I think the post man is holding out on me)

What actually happened was that when the Crusaders marched, they brought pieces of the True Cross with them. When the battle began to go against the Crusaders it was placed in Guy de Lusignon's tent as a kind of last-ditch rallying point. As we all know, though, the Crusader army was utterly destroyed and THEN Saladin recovered the Cross.


To God's Grace: -shrug- If he is, then my bad I guess - medieval history isn't my forte. Point of the story still stands though.

[Stolpmeister]

When crusading to Jerusalem, I just found this:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ster/crown.jpg

Crown of Thorns! Pretty cool. I also had a laugh at my merchant carrying this item around:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ter/abacus.jpg

I like the quote particulary.

[Divine Wind]

Successful Jihad with the Egyptians against Jerusalem led my commander to gain "Mohammed's Footprint". Mohammeds footprint set in clay, in a small golden box, and I believe it granted +2 Piety for the General.

[IrishArmenian]

When crusading to Jerusalem, I just found this:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ster/crown.jpg

Crown of Thorns! Pretty cool. I also had a laugh at my merchant carrying this item around:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ter/abacus.jpg

I like the quote particulary.

Love the trick abacus, I must have it!

[Rpkmann]

I got Solomon's signet ring as france on crusade into jerusalem...how does one take screenshots in Medieval II?

[Stolpmeister]

I got Solomon's signet ring as france on crusade into jerusalem...how does one take screenshots in Medieval II?

Print Screen. They're saved in the "tgas" folder.

[Napoleon Blownapart]

I found Marco Polo. He gives +15% movement and +10% trade. Too bad he turned up on a priest so the trade thing is void.

https://img293.imageshack.us/img293/466/poloii8.jpg

[Bullethead]

I got Solomon's signet ring as france on crusade into jerusalem...

So how many djinns and effrits can you summon per turn with it?

[magnum]

Seal of Solomon - +1 Dread, -1 Piety, +2 Command when commanding cavalry. Got it when I finished a crusade to Jerusalem.

Gerard de Ridefort - Ancillery that joined me when I declared my Crusade to Jerusalem. +1 Command, +1 Authority, +1 Morale to all troops, +2 Command when attacking.

Needless to say, that ended up being one great general. He was a 3 star 19-year old when he joined the crusade. Was a 9 star when attacking by time he took Jerusalem. He basically took the middle east himself.

[Varam]

I had Peter the Hermit join Sultan Salih on his jihad against Edessa.

Was quite awkward.

[scourgeofrome]

I had Peter the Hermit join Sultan Salih on his jihad against Edessa.

Was quite awkward.

.A leader of the First Crusade joins up with an Muslim in a jihad.Only things that would make it funnier if the jihad was attacking Jerusaleum.

[Dr.Strangelove]

It's not as spectacular as the Spear of Destiny, but my prince started out the campaign with this little trinket:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ster/relic.jpg

While we're on the subject of cool features, check out this crossdresser:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ossdresser.jpg

...and this senile old mentor obviously found the wrong person to attach himself to:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ster/butch.jpg

Is it possible that I am the only one who laughed to tears with the "little trinket" ? It must be the most hilarious special item in the game . It fits with the superstition of the time where tons of Holy Bones and True Cross were "on the market". By the way, it still happens at a lesser scale...

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In my campaign as the Moors, too, General Quasim got Peter the Hermit on a Jihad for Leon

[Aenlic]

That my friend, is the Spear of Nazareth! The very spear that punctured the flesh of Christ, and was forever blessed! Thats really cool! (Also, the Spear -WAS- recovered in a cave in Antioch during a Crusade!) Wow, this is a pretty neat little feature. Don't lose that thing now

Except that it's been proven now that the spear was manufactured during the Middle Ages, and isn't what it was claimed to be.

[Shahed]

All the Mohammed's items are transferrable btw.

In my current game I can't find Mohammed's sword. Is there a specific location for it or are all the items randomised ?

[CvC]

One of my princesses has a chastity belt (-1 to charm and -10% movement points "ya think"). Later she picked up a secret lover (how'd that happen?)...guess she figured out how to pick the lock on the chastity belt! Now all she needs is a catamite and voila...the TRIFECTA!!!!!!!!!

[Kraxis]

I found Marco Polo. He gives +15% movement and +10% trade. Too bad he turned up on a priest so the trade thing is void.

https://img293.imageshack.us/img293/466/poloii8.jpg

Obviously part of the bugged Traits and Ancilliaries... He should of course have been issued to a general.

Did his MP bonus at least show up for this priest? And did you try to 'hand' him over to a general?

[Shahed]

Good question Sir Kraxis.

About that not so chasity babe, oh my freakin goat !!!
Secret lover and chastity belt.. LMAO.

[Iyasu]

my brother got a "veronica's cloth" (the thing with the painted facial image of christ) or something after completing a crusade using france. gerard (the knight templar) appears when you join the crusade, ive played england twice and he always joins my retinue.

[Icespy]

I've had a spy get "Forged Papers" that gave +1 to his skill which I could transfer.

[Shahed]

Thanks for the info ! Seems obvious enough but I never thought abou that.

[Vladimir]

I've had a spy get "Forged Papers" that gave +1 to his skill which I could transfer.

Good news.

[Kraxis]

He can??? Damn...

Anyway it is rather easy to get. Just let your spy stay in an enemy city long enough and he will get it.

[Shahed]

I tried to transfer a bunch of forged papers from veterans to newbies, did'nt work. So I went looking into the files and found this:


Ancillary false_documents
Type Item
Transferable 0
Image item_documents.tga
ExcludeCultures mesoamerican
Description false_documents_desc
EffectsDescription false_documents_effects_desc
Effect Subterfuge 1

So if this is the correct item it is not transferrable or else it would have 1 instead of 0.
It is the correct item right ? I can't find any 'forged papers' in the ancillary file.

[dismal]

List of all ancillaries available in the game:

academic_advisor
accomplice
actor
adultress
adultress_foreign
adultress_she_man
albertus_magnus
alchemist
aldus_manutius
amerigo_vespucci
anthony_of_padua
apothecary
architect
ark_of_the_covenant
armour_custom
armour_ornate
arnold_von_winkelried
artist
assassins_apprentice
assassins_blade
astrologer
bard
beguiling_bard
bertrand_du_guesclin
biographer
black_stallion
bodyguard
bridle_of_constantine
brilliant_inventor
caravan_driver
catamite
chastity_belt
chevalier_de_bayard
choir_boy
counterfeiter
courtesan
crooked_judge
crown_of_thorns
dancer
dark_apprentice
deacon
delicate_blade
diplomatic_escort
doctor
donatello
drillmaster
enchanted_broom
eunuch
evil_mother-in-law
executioner
exotic_gifts
explosives
faithful_servant
false_documents
false_relic
femme_fatale
fine_cosmetics
foodtaster
fool_brilliant
fool_usual
foreign_dignitary
fragment_of_the_black_stone
francesco_petrarca
francis_of_assisi
geoffrey_chaucer
george_of_antioch
gerard_de_ridefort
hair_from_mohammeds_beard
handgun
harsh_judge
herald
hildegard_von_bingen
holy_chalice
holy_grail
holy_lance
holy_mantle
holy_prepuce
holy_quran
holy_shroud
ibn_khaldun
icon_not_made_by_hands
intrepid_explorer
iron_crown_of_lombardy
jan_zizka
joan_of_arc
johannes_faustes
john_gutenberg
john_wycliffe
key_to_holy_kaaba
knight_beserker
knight_chivalrous
knight_crusader
knight_dread
knight_santiago
knight_stjohn
knight_templar
knight_teutonic
lancebearer
librarian
lock_of_kaaba
machiavelli
magician
magician_pagan
marco_polo
martin_luther
master_mason
master_of_archers
master_of_assassins
master_of_horse
master_smith
mathematician
meister_eckhart
mentor
mercenary_captain
merchant_clerk
michaelangelo
military_engineer
mohammeds_footprint
money_counter
monk
musician
naive_knight
naval_gunner
naval_navigator
nicolau_copernicus
niels_ebbesen
nosy_mother
nun
obsessed_suitor
ordinance_master
overseer
paladin
paracelsus
pet_bloodhound
pet_guarddog
pet_monkey
peter_the_hermit
physician
pickpocket
pierre_abelard
poisoner
priest
quartermaster
raphael
roger_bacon
roger_de_moulins
royal_escort
royal_seminarian
runner
scout
scribe_ancillary
seal_of_solomon
secret_love
shard_of_the_true_cross
shieldbearer
shipwright
siege_engineer
simon_de_montfort
sir_william_wallace
slaver
smothering_bodyguard
soil_from_mohammeds_grave
soothsayer
spyglass
spymaster
standard_of_mohammed
strapping_stallion
stunning_handmaiden
swift_steed
swiss_guard
sword_of_mohammed
swordbearer
taticius
tax_farmer
the_lemegeton
tooth_of_mohammed
torturer
translator
treasurer
trick_abacus
trusty_steed
tutor
vasco_de_gama
veil_of_veronica
veteran_warrior
vlad_tepes
witch_hunter
yappy_little_dog
zealous_disciple

Looks like you can get the Ninja Turtles...

[Shahed]

Thanks. That's what I thought, there is no forged papers, false documents is it..

Hey ! Can you repost that with 1 next those which are transferrable please ?

EDIT: That's a joke :P ;)

[dismal]

These are transferrable, most are not (36 of 189):

academic_advisor
alchemist
apothecary
ark_of_the_covenant
assassins_apprentice
bard
black_stallion
bodyguard
bridle_of_constantine
caravan_driver
crown_of_thorns
fragment_of_the_black_stone
hair_from_mohammeds_beard
holy_chalice
holy_grail
holy_lance
holy_mantle
holy_prepuce
holy_quran
holy_shroud
icon_not_made_by_hands
iron_crown_of_lombardy
key_to_holy_kaaba
lock_of_kaaba
mohammeds_footprint
seal_of_solomon
shard_of_the_true_cross
soil_from_mohammeds_grave
standard_of_mohammed
sword_of_mohammed
tooth_of_mohammed
translator
treasurer
trusty_steed
tutor
veil_of_veronica

[Shahed]

AWESOME ! Thanks ! Appreciate it.

Hmm standard of Mohammed ? The black one I assume ? That would be very cool if the general who had it, had it on the field. That is when you went to battle with that general, he would have that standard. Ultimate.

....getting carried away.

[Willknott]

List of all ancillaries available in the game:

Looks like you can get the Ninja Turtles...

I see all of them there except Leonardo.

Great work Dismal on that ancillary list. It's the most complete I've seen so far. Is it a totally complete list? Any chance you have a similar list of traits laying around?