Some TO-Questions

[Högni]

This is my first Stainless Steel campaign, and I am a bit confused. I play version 6.1 with RR/RC (that stuff that came with the 6.1 installer), difficulty medium both. My Teutonic Order campaign is in turn 50 so far and went rather well - nearly all Skandinavia is mine, Lithuania gone and the Rus will follow.
But nonetheless I got some questions.

1) How do I recruit good units?
Sounds dumb, but thats my main problem. I can only recruit Militas - Order Militia, Crossbow Militia, Peasant Archers and Prussian Archers. And Knechten. And I dont know why. I got Drill Squares, at least 2 of them in castles, which should enable me to build both Sword Brethren and Order Spearmen and they are neatly put in my recruitment window, but they are always not available. This is the fact since I started the game - I have never ever been able to recruit them. Same with Ritterbrüdern and Christ Knights. Whats the problem with it? Cant be that I have too many of these units as the few I got from the beginning are all dead by now.

2) Whats the deal with the zeal?
My faction leader has that trait about faction zeal, which is either high or moderate till now. What does that mean? What effects does it have? And why does he sometimes get the trait of "Impaired Recruitment" and what does that mean? And whats that about "The right to knight"?

3) Family
I guess as being an Order the Teutonic Order does not have a family tree and cant marry and stuff - thats right? Which means the only way of getting new generals is by praying for adoptions and "Men of the hour"s?

[bɑne]

This is my first Stainless Steel campaign, and I am a bit confused. I play version 6.1 with RR/RC (that stuff that came with the 6.1 installer), difficulty medium both. My Teutonic Order campaign is in turn 50 so far and went rather well - nearly all Skandinavia is mine, Lithuania gone and the Rus will follow.
But nonetheless I got some questions.

1) How do I recruit good units?
Sounds dumb, but thats my main problem. I can only recruit Militas - Order Militia, Crossbow Militia, Peasant Archers and Prussian Archers. And Knechten. And I dont know why. I got Drill Squares, at least 2 of them in castles, which should enable me to build both Sword Brethren and Order Spearmen and they are neatly put in my recruitment window, but they are always not available. This is the fact since I started the game - I have never ever been able to recruit them. Same with Ritterbrüdern and Christ Knights. Whats the problem with it? Cant be that I have too many of these units as the few I got from the beginning are all dead by now.

To be blunt the problem might be that you installed the stuff that came with the 6.1 installer without reading the information topics the installer linked. The 6.1 release topic also informs of a bug included in the submods that has to be fixed by manually applying a updated version to your install. See the quoted part at the bottom of my post.

2) Whats the deal with the zeal?
My faction leader has that trait about faction zeal, which is either high or moderate till now. What does that mean? What effects does it have? And why does he sometimes get the trait of "Impaired Recruitment" and what does that mean? And whats that about "The right to knight"?

I'll link you one of the topics from the installer. Maybe someone else will kindly summarize but I recommend reading it.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=106060

3) Family
I guess as being an Order the Teutonic Order does not have a family tree and cant marry and stuff - thats right? Which means the only way of getting new generals is by praying for adoptions and "Men of the hour"s?

Thats correct. Finally to quote from the 6.1 topic

Important: If you want to use the Real Recruitment (BYG mod) included in the 6.1 patch / if you installed BGRIII using the Stainless Steel 6.1 installer be sure to apply the fix before starting a new campaign
Go here and read the troubleshooter.

[Högni]

Ahhh, thank you very much!
This brings much more light in these mysteries