Special abilities?

[Aurelius Maximus]

Hi, I was playing the spanish campaign and i thought certain characters in the game had special abilities you could use during battle. I played with Hernan Cortes and he didnt have any and now im playing the Crusades and I have King Richard and he has no special abilities neither, is there something that I have to make them do before they get that ability?

[pwijnands]

In the Crusades campaign all factions get someone with a special ability at some point. I don't know which characters they are and when they spawn (or wether they start out with them). Frostbeastegg wrote a guide for the Crusades campaign which has all of it listed.

Here it is:
http://www.totalwar.com/asset_librar...aign_Guide.doc

[Pater Familias]

The Spaniards' "special ability" is to be granted two extra armies midgame: Handy for that pesky Mayan problem in the Yucatan. Oh, and the culverin, a weapon that spits fire and has 2-3 times the range of your opponents' arrows. But no special button to push, no.

[Theseus1234]

for the crusades, its
Egypt: Saladin
Turks: Nur-a-Din
Antioch: King Phillip
KoJ: King Richard
Byzantium: King Manuel