Where are my Gurkhas?

[jakeyjohn]

i have the special forces edition and have conquered the world as great britain (yes i played too much) but i never got the gurkas from kashmir or anywhere, any help?

[KingDave]

i have the special forces edition and have conquered the world as great britain (yes i played too much) but i never got the gurkas from kashmir or anywhere, any help?

I just conquered Kashmir too as GB and NO GURKHAS! WTF?

[OberonDark]

Ghoorkas*. And don't you have to activate them with a card like the pre-order units?

[Darthey]

I've got a weird bug where i can use my special units in multiplayer games, but not in single player campaigns. Very strange.

[SirVulf]

I've got a weird bug where i can use my special units in multiplayer games, but not in single player campaigns. Very strange.

It was done like that on purpose... go to the totalwarforums.com and read about it from CA directly.

Why would they only be recruitable as the Muhgals when the Muhgals aren't playable? (unmodded)

Besides, they were a British unit.

Actually they were natively Nepalese but the British decided to use them as commando units due to their fearlessness in battle. Which ultimately landed them the side job as the Queens special guard. There's plenty of videos on YouTube with their history and indoctrination process which is still used today.

[jakeyjohn]

Ghoorkas*. And don't you have to activate them with a card like the pre-order units?

i hav activated SFE and can use them in custom battles just nt campaign, weird. also it actually is Ghurkas, not ghoorkas

[akinkhoo]

it is dumb but you have to type the serial number into steam and not the game itself.

[Brusilov]

I think you need to activate them on steam before you start a campaign.

[Ebusitanus]

I have not seen Ghoorkas either. But then perhaps you can only recruit them as Murghals?

The Ghoorkas are part of the 6 special edition unit code.

Is anyone able to spawn Spanish Corso Terrestre units when taking over Spain? Or the big Turkish gun?

[Alba gu Brath]

I have not seen Ghoorkas either. But then perhaps you can only recruit them as Murghals?

The Ghoorkas are part of the 6 special edition unit code.

Is anyone able to spawn Spanish Corso Terrestre units when taking over Spain? Or the big Turkish gun?

Why would they only be recruitable as the Muhgals when the Muhgals aren't playable? (unmodded)

Besides, they were a British unit.

[JAMiAM]

You need to activate the Special Forces product code through Steam, first. After doing that, start a new campaign game. Otherwise, if you simply continue playing on from a game that was started prior to the activation, you will not have the units available.

When starting ETW, I tend to use the "Empire Total War - Special Forces Unit" desktop shortcut icon that Steam installs when the product code is activated, though I'm not entirely sure that it is necessary. I did note that there is a slight difference in the Target Line for the shortcut, as opposed to a vanilla installation of ETW. It seems to target the same executable, but a different command line switch.

[The Kurgan]

I have the ridiculous SFEdition and I play the game with the Special forces disk in the drive and it is OK. cant recall if I activated as well or not. what a palava this steam is!

[Luw]

I just play ETW through the Steam games list and I got Ghoorkhas ok twice as GB. They were just there in my recruitment tab when I took over whatever that region is called. Same with the Turkish organ guns. I did activate my Special Forces Code the moment I installed the game.

[Ebusitanus]

Same with the Turkish organ guns.

I have the special forces edition and have seen several special units in action (meaning I do have the SFE) and right now I have conquered as Russia al of the Ottoman Empire and I´m not able to recruit Turkish Organ guns. Are you sure?

[Luw]

I have the special forces edition and have seen several special units in action (meaning I do have the SFE) and right now I have conquered as Russia al of the Ottoman Empire and I´m not able to recruit Turkish Organ guns. Are you sure?

Positive - just seen them on a screenshot too (you made me doubt my own sanity!).

[PlacidDragon]

You can recruit Ghoorkas as any nation as long as you control Kashmir (originally Mughal territory). Thats the only area you can recruit them, and you can recruit them regardless of what buildings you have there (as long as there is a barracks so you can recruit *something*).

I've gotten them as Prussia, the Marathas and the Ottomans (not gone deep into India with other factions).

[akinkhoo]

You can recruit Ghoorkas as any nation as long as you control Kashmir (originally Mughal territory). Thats the only area you can recruit them, and you can recruit them regardless of what buildings you have there (as long as there is a barracks so you can recruit *something*).

I've gotten them as Prussia, the Marathas and the Ottomans (not gone deep into India with other factions).

you can't build a barrack there.

[PlacidDragon]

you can't build a barrack there.

My mistake, it shouldnt say Barracks, it should say "building" (as long as you have a building so you can recruit *something*)

[Shadow8]

uhm... i can recruit them just fine with the SF edition.... perchance you havn't met the prerequisites methinks (though that would be silly if there were any considering their practically medieval swordsmen)

[IsaacDK306]

erm i think ive kind of lost my serial code for special forces changed email since i bought it. ne of u know where i can find it from??