New wonder ability: spawning units!

[Wolfhart]

One thing I've read that many civvers want is the prerequisite of an improvement to build a unit. Now it seems that might be included in the C3C. The preview of C3C in Gamespy seems to indicate this by saying:

More wonders have also been added to the game. Some of them, like the Knights Templar, will even spawn units regularly, giving you free units to add to your armies.

BTW, I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before here. I haven't seen it and I thought this was really interesting.

 

[LouLong]

As much as I want that to be true, a (small probably) wonder spawning units is not the same as improvement-restricted units...

But I really hope both concepts will merge beautifully

I am afraid spawning units wonders are a way of replacing events (in this case recurrent ones).

 

[puglover]

Kinda like the Terra Cotta Army in Rise of Nations.

 

[Xen]

Knights Templar= [punch]


well at least they arnt those barbaric Teutonic Knights, then you would start hearing arguments to have them taken out that make eveything I've said about the Byzantines seem like noob talk (no offense...)


I can deal with the Templars

 

[EddyG17]

Knight templar... i don't know what it is... but... could it be no-mantenace-cost-knights

 

[Xen]

A group if violent type crusader-priests of the middle ages

 

[Black Waltz]

Still. Very cool idea of a wonder.

 

[TerraHero]

templar was a closed order, they took part in the crusades but where most curtainly organized.

They where the elites in the crusades

 

[downwithgravity]

sounds pretty cool to me.

 

[wildWolverine]

Originally posted by Xen
A group if violent type crusader-priests of the middle ages

Here we go again... That description is most definitely not accurate. I have just a slight interest in the Templars (refer to avatar on left) . If King Philip hadn't been a greedy little twerp, the Templars would have gone down in history as the longest lasting, most powerful military order of the middle ages (Hospitallers who???). While the order started out intensely religious, w/ the sole purpose of protecting the pilgrimmage routes to Jerusalem, the knights were never priests. Many of their auxiliary members, however, were. The biggest difference between the Templars and the other orders were that the Templars answered only to the pope -- not to any secular leaders; knights and sergeants came from many different European countries. Therefore, I'm not sure how any one civ would be able to build Templars in the game....

For anyone interested: read Malcolm Barber's The New Knighthood: A history of the Order of the Temple or Piers Paul Read's The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

edit: oh, and the Templars were most noticeably recognized by their short hair, clean shaven faces (most knights had long, lanky hair w/ large beards -- hygiene? who needs it?), and the red cross on their shields...
(their Saracen opponents respected and feared the Templars more than any of the other crusading forces)

 

[ravensfire]

Of course, if you read The Da Vinci Code, you get another impression.

 

[wildWolverine]

A most excellent novel. How, exactly, is it that I never noticed a woman in that painting before????? Angels & Demons was also good, although slightly less so. While I like Dan Brown's books, in his eagerness to bash the Church, he sometimes gets a little ahead of himself (at one point -- I forget in which book -- he insists that the Catholic Church based its sacrament of the Eucharist (the eating of one's God) on the Aztec ritual --> obviously an impossible statement, as the Eucharist was celebrated centuries before the Aztecs even existed, much less were discovered by the Europeans).