Quick question - can't get to see the elite units on the building browser

**LuiSius_ScutaRuS** · December 02, 2010, 08:46 AM

Hi,
After a loooong time I've decided to play SS once again, I'm playing as the Portuguese in a late era campaign. I'm in turn 30 and I can't get to see the elite units on the building browser, musketeers, elite swordsman, and elite cavalry for example. are they appearing as I continue playing?
I've already seen the gunpowder event (video) but once again I see no cannons, only a ribalt.

any info plz?

**Gogolometro** · December 02, 2010, 09:10 AM

Will get some like hand gunners at year 1300. More at 1370. Pikes and muskets at 1450.

**ShadowKiller2000** · December 02, 2010, 01:46 PM

Yeah all the later units with heavy plate will come after 1300.

Some units become available right around 1220 when the Mongols arrive. Although it depends on the faction you are playing. For example scotland will have acess to Fuedal knights for a longer period of time than the French. As fuedal knights are replaced by Chivalric Knights, Men at Arms etc.

Any units in particular you want to know about?

**LuiSius_ScutaRuS** · December 03, 2010, 02:38 AM

Well I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer... I'm only 40 turns into the game so I'd better take it easy. the units I want to see are musketeers and cannons.

**PerXX** · December 03, 2010, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by LuiSius_ScutaRuS

Well I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer... I'm only 40 turns into the game so I'd better take it easy. the units I want to see are musketeers and cannons.

Those will take quite some time to be available. RR/RC means that units won't become available untill the historically correct time. No fullplate or cannons in 1200. Some units won't be available untill more than hundred years from the beginning.
If you don't feel like waiting, there's the aptly named No Waiting Mod which will remove the requirements for the various units.

**Caesar Clivus** · December 03, 2010, 02:43 AM

Units that require an event to happen before you can recruit them will not show up in the building browser.

**ShadowKiller2000** · December 03, 2010, 08:16 AM

Yeah, a lot of units will not be available for many turns.

I love RR and at this point I could never return to the Vanilla style of unit recruitment.

If you open up your export_dscr_building file.....(its a text file in the data folder).

You can check out every unit, what building it comes from, and after what event it is recruitable. Most units also dissapear at some point as well. It takes a little bit to get used to the set up, but then you can easily check up when everything is available.