Teutonic knights

[Cartoffel]

How can I recruit them as Germany in the early start age?
I just saw an irish army with teutonic knights marching through my lands.

[DNLH]

I don't think they're available anywhere for recruitment outside of maybe Holy Land before medium/late period.

If you allow your Marshal to go on a Crusade, he'll receive a bunch of special troops, including Teutonic and Templar knights, if he then succeeds, you get to keep all of the units that survived the Crusade.

[Cartoffel]

That's bad, I don't like the troop variety and recruitment in this game. I conquered most of central europe and only vikings and genuease crossbowmen are available as special units so far.

[Doctard]

Originally posted by DNLH:

I don't think they're available anywhere for recruitment outside of maybe Holy Land before medium/late period.

If you allow your Marshal to go on a Crusade, he'll receive a bunch of special troops, including Teutonic and Templar knights, if he then succeeds, you get to keep all of the units that survived the Crusade.

you're thinking of templar knights
aren't teutonic knights somewhere around the teutonic order lands?

[DNLH]

I enjoy the troop variety, but most of it is hidden behind different cultures, who get different basic roster, so you won't have access to all of them at once. Only a handful of special units become available by conquering specific provinces.

Playing as Germany you get a bit privileged roster, you get access to Men-at-Arms, Feudal Knights and Crossbowmen right off the bat, many kingdoms, even European ones, can only get at least one of two or those through province-exclusive recuritment.

EDIT:

Originally posted by Doctard:

you're thinking of templar knights
aren't teutonic knights somewhere around the teutonic order lands?

You can get both Teutonic and Templar ones, mounted and foot for Crusades, as well as Normans, Halberdiers, Horse Archers and couple others pretty exclusive units. They don't appear in Prussia region and surrounding provinces until late game start.

[Doctard]

Originally posted by DNLH:

I enjoy the troop variety, but most of it is hidden behind different cultures, who get different basic roster, so you won't have access to all of them at once. Only a handful of special units become available by conquering specific provinces.

Playing as Germany you get a bit privileged roster, you get access to Men-at-Arms, Feudal Knights and Crossbowmen right off the bat, many kingdoms, even European ones, can only get at least one of two or those through province-exclusive recuritment.

EDIT:

Originally posted by Doctard:

you're thinking of templar knights
aren't teutonic knights somewhere around the teutonic order lands?

You can get both Teutonic and Templar ones, mounted and foot for Crusades, as well as Normans, Halberdiers, Horse Archers and couple others pretty exclusive units. They don't appear in Prussia region and surrounding provinces until late game start.

you can, but the question is how to recruit them, not how to get them for free
so yeah, late period, conquer stuff around the teutonic order lands

[DNLH]

Yeah, my bad, they're only in Acre at the later date, they're also around Livonia in middle starting date, but can't be recruited anywhere early game.

[Chompers]

I've been able to recruit tuet knights and cav in Acre and Cluj as a catholic nation once the provinces are properly converted. Not sure if there is a 3rd province more North with them I havne't taken the Northeast of Europe yet. Templars tend to be recruitable from the same provinces.

Also if you see random catholic nations with tuets or templars its because going on a crusade puts a random number of those units in your army.