Ideas for new campaign

[TemplarKnight88]

i was read a book which i forget the name it said the knights templar were possibly the frist people to discover america. it gave proof like "the money pit" also in royslin chapel but even if this is not true i wuold like to see this a as a campaign also i would like to a templar campaign or just merge the top with a templar campaign so when them templar become demolished a fleet apears and you sail to the new world. also i woulld like to see a a campaign about souly the british and french and how the quarled during the medieval times.

[TemplarKnight88]

also post your ideas and what you think of mine here

[NoFrag]

also post your ideas and what you think of mine here

Seether are quite bad, but the rest is fine.

[TemplarKnight88]

also were do you get stainless steal sigs

[TemplarKnight88]

what does that have to do with new campaigns???

[moosey]

Templars in america??? ok... well if a random ship did find its way to newfoundland it probably didnt carry a whole army and nothing happened til columbus so i dont see a campaign being very satisfying.

play on kingdoms america if you want to attack america.

FOr the hundred year war there was a mini campaign available with Lands to Conquer 2.something i think (i used to play it before SS). you might want to take a look at that.

[Landwalker]

Aside from the patently and hilariously false claim by that book, it presumably would be possible to start the Templars in America if you edited some of the basic campaign files. It probably wouldn't take much, but unfortunately I don't know the details behind it.

Templars discovering America. Ha.

Cheers.

[TemplarKnight88]

i do belive the templars did come to america but it was not a whole army it was there tresure fellt and some guards but they were not there long though

[Landwalker]

i do belive the templars did come to america but it was not a whole army it was there tresure fellt and some guards but they were not there long though

That's.... special....

Ignoring how much that hurts my brain, even if they had come to the Americas at some point, they would not have been the first. The Templars were founded in the early 12th century (around 1119, I think), whereas there is considerable evidence that Viking sailor/explorers landed in Canada in the early 11th century (around 1003 AD).

Cheers.

[TemplarKnight88]

That's.... special....

whereas there is considerable evidence that Viking sailor/explorers landed in Canada in the early 11th century (around 1003 AD).

Cheers.

you are right i didnt say they came there first but just that they have been there

[TemplarKnight88]

Aside from the patently and hilariously false claim by that book, it presumably would be possible to start the Templars in America if you edited some of the basic campaign files. It probably wouldn't take much, but unfortunately I don't know the details behind it.

Templars discovering America. Ha.

Cheers.

Look at my evidence it is convincing if you can proove me wrong then i shall say ha

[moosey]

I just dont see what the templars would be doing out there, they were warrior nights mostly french which spent most of their time in the levant. What they would be doing out in the atlantic?

Fun idea though

[TemplarKnight88]

after they gor dispanded on 1306 or 1303 i can remember but it is one of those dates, there tresure fleet disapeared no one nows were it went possibly to the americas?????
here is my proff on y i think they came here
1. were i live they think they have found the ships they carbondated the wood and the age is in 1300's
2. carving in rosylsn templar show corn (onlyfound in america) and aloe(only found in america)
3. If not america were else????

this is what i belive BUT i think the vikings got the first

[TemplarKnight88]

DONT FORGET POST YOUR OWN IDEAS FOR CAMPAIGNS

[Landwalker]

Your evidence isn't evidence at all. The two main proponents for the "ears of corn" are a physicist (Robert Lomas) and an advertiser (Christopher Knight), whereas professional medieval scholars identify them as wheat stalks or one of several other common European plants (with a level of over-stylization typical to medieval art). The idea that the Templars and Earl Henry I Sinclair of Orkney somehow were involved in a voyage that may have included North America is a fairly modern legend perpetuated mostly by a stretched and groundless identification based on the controversial letters of two Venetian navigators who may have just made the whole thing up.

Another snippet from Wikipedia:

Knight and Lomas speculate that the Knights Templar discovered under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a royal archive dating from King Solomon's times that stated that Phoenicians from Tyre, by orders of Solomon, voyaged to a westerly continent following a star called "La Merika". According to Knight and Lomas, the Templars learned that to sail to that continent, they had to follow a star by the same name, which became the origin of the name "America".

"La Merika" -> "L'America"? Give me a break. America isn't named after any mythical Templar voyage, but after Amerigo Vespucci centuries later.

In any case, citing the baseless speculation of amateurs is hardly "evidence". There is no solid evidence of the Templars or Henry Sinclair discovering America in the 14th century (or at any other point).

As far as campaign ideas: If you want Templar-specific ideas, try starting out a campaign, capturing Antioch, Acre, and Jerusalem, and then just sitting on them in the face of all coming foes without expanding. Probably a bit too boring, though it would hopefully develop into an interesting attempt to hold the crusader East despite huge disadvantages of money and manpower. Another idea would be to try to capture all five patriarchates -- Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Rome.

For a non-templar idea, you could take the Byzantines and reestablish the borders of the Roman Empire at its height (from Hadrian's Wall to Arabia).

Cheers.

[TemplarKnight88]

that is not were i got it from i do not like thouse writers anyway they say jesus is not a virgin adn tey say he did not die on the cross my evidence is from what i hvae learned

[Landwalker]

If it's what you've "learned", I'd recommend a more critical approach to your secondary sources and a closer involvement with the primary sources instead of accepting whatever your "scholars" of choice say just because it was also in National Treasure.

Cheers.

[TemplarKnight88]

and anyway how can you prove wrong that carbondated wood from a shipwreck off of new york is from 1300's also the ears of corn our in roslyn temple which is a templar temple but also i found out that a staue of a Knight in wisconsen with a carving of 2 people on a horse on the shield

[OneArmedScissor]

and anyway how can you prove wrong that carbondated wood from a shipwreck off of new york is from 1300's also the ears of corn our in roslyn temple which is a templar temple but also i found out that a staue of a Knight in wisconsen with a carving of 2 people on a horse on the shield

If you're going to make a claim, it is your responsibility to back up that claim; not our responsibility to prove you wrong.

[OneArmedScissor]

Templar88, you are a terrible poster and you should refrain from ting up the forums.