Question about the Teutonic Order

[Kiwiyorkist]

I've looked everywhere but cant find the answer to this question. Does the Teutonic Order emerge during the early campaign the same way mongols and timurids did back in vanilla?

I'm playing as Lithuania and have been gearing up expecting a horde of knights to appear on my doorstep one day. I got the message that the Order had been created, around about 1190 I think. I stayed up til 1 in the morning last night hoping they'd show up with a few stacks but so far nothing, no stacks, no faction shield in the diplomacy menu.

By the way, I finally registered just to ask this question, I've read these forums for ages and they're great. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[Caesar Clivus]

Yes they do emerge in the early era campaign. In case you want to keep when they emerge a surprise, I'll put the date in a spoiler tag below

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1230AD

[Kiwiyorkist]

Thanks, I was wondering if my game was bugged. I guess they did start off in the Holy Land and only got to the Baltic later. At least I'll be able to get some better troops now, don't know how well my Ducal spearmen and axemen would fare against the Ritterbruder.

[Deadly Rabbit]

It's funny, in one game I was playing the Lithuanians quite decisively repelled the Teutonic order horde, and they ended up wandering around the edge of the black sea. I was playing as the Byzantines and ceded their remaining half stack Bucharest in return for an alliance. They turned out to be quite a handy buffer against hungarians, Mongols etc.