How do I attain Canons of the Holy Sepulcher?

[Alcorr]

Title. I realize it says unique unit, but in the building brower I can't figure out any building, not even at the highest city and castle levels that you can build them with. Are they non recruitable? Can they only be recruited in a certain area? A certain time?

[Hellbent]

I thought they were only recruitable in Jerusalem? Its one of the units recruitable from the"powerhouse" cities.

[Alcorr]

Jerusalem you say? Hmmm, I know there are other units that can only be recruited in jerusalem (for the other crusader faction). Are you sure?

[Hellbent]

Well that or Antioch, those two are the major crusader cities in the campaign.

EDIT: I just got the game and the manual says that you need a hospitallers guild as Antioch to get the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre.

[Alcorr]

Could someone else please enlighten me on this? I know that one of the units for the faction that starts with jerusalem requires jerusalem to be built. I am asking about how to recruit canons of the holy sepulcher for the crusader faction that starts with antioch as a city.....

[Antioch]

Could someone else please enlighten me on this? I know that one of the units for the faction that starts with jerusalem requires jerusalem to be built. I am asking about how to recruit canons of the holy sepulcher for the crusader faction that starts with antioch as a city.....

They can only be recruited in Krak de Chevalievs i think. When i started the game i allready had them and i have not lost them yet. Just sent them back to resupply there and only there

[Alcorr]

So you only get...one? The entire game? And just resupply? No way to recruit new units?

[Jack Lusted]

The Canons of the Holy Sepulcher are a unique unit, you can only have one of them at a time, just like the Marshall of the Hopitallers, or the Constable of Jerusalem and Marshall of the Templars for Jerusalem.

[Slaists]

but what buidings need to be in place in order to re-supply these units?

[Lusted]

2nd tier of barracks i think.

[Maethius]

But that is not bad, I mean what is the point with elite units if you can fill a whole stack?

[the_mango55]

Oh sweet, I didn't know there were unique units.

That's awesome!

One question, if they all die, can you retrain?

[Alcorr]

Yeah good question? I hope so, because otherwise they are almost too valuable to risk in battle if you can't recruit a new unit if your original gets obliterated.

[Lusted]

Yes if you lose a unique unit, if you have the building required for it you can train a replacement.

[Tucker Dan]

I'm playing as Antioch and sent my canons into battle, lost over two-thirds but was able to retrain them in Krak even though they don't appear on the recruitment roster. As for having them entirely wiped out I don't know.

[Dagda]

You don't need more than 1 of them anyways. My triple gold bar Sepulcher destroys anything on the battlefield, including cavalry.

[hellheaven1987]

It seems the Order guild is the answer... accordind to the game manual.

[jocl2005]

but isn't it kinda weird that the AI can have several of them at a time

[eggthief]

Happens if auto-recruitment is turned on, it's a bug.

[kooz123]

like dagda said, you dont need more than one. they absolutely destroy, plus they have 2 hit points which makes them almost impossible to kill. but i have lost them to desertion once and i wasnt able to get them back. i had the guild and was holding Krak, but i still wasnt able too. at that point i figured that they werent re-recruitable and once you lost them you dont get them back.