How do I train gun powder units?

**BoPoMoFo** · July 21, 2011, 07:02 PM

I just completed the alchemy lab, which is supposed to let me train gun powder units like musketeers. But I still can not train these units. What else do I have to do?

Thank!

**~~Pharoah~~** · July 21, 2011, 07:15 PM

I think you need to have the gunpoeder dicovery event

**BoPoMoFo** · July 21, 2011, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by Pharoah

I think you need to have the gunpoeder dicovery event

Is that scripted to happen automatically? Around what year does it happen?

**smthhappy** · July 21, 2011, 07:41 PM

around turn 100 i suppose

**AJStoner** · July 21, 2011, 08:00 PM

Some building upgrade new units recruited there--in some cases everywhere (will say "global") and some require re-train. In the latter case the unit will be available for retrain in cities with the needed building.

**Nosjack** · July 21, 2011, 09:13 PM

The gunpowder even happens around turn 210-220 (little later than 1200)

You also need higher-tier city barracks to train the units.

**ChivalrousKiller** · July 22, 2011, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by Nosjack

The gunpowder even happens around turn 210-220 (little later than 1200)

You also need higher-tier city barracks to train the units.

I think I'd say quite exactly half of that. At least in the vanilla version, it occurs between 105 and 110

**Nosjack** · July 22, 2011, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by ChivalrousKiller

I think I'd say quite exactly half of that. At least in the vanilla version, it occurs between 105 and 110

Oh right,

Forgot that I'm playing retrofit with 1/2 timescale.

**Aeratus** · July 22, 2011, 08:02 AM

Gunpowder is available at 1290, I think. To train musketeers, you have to be Portugal, Spain, Turks, or the Italian factions, and have the highest level barracks in the city (the one that requires a Huge City and takes over 10 turns to build). Russia can train musketeers directly from a Huge city without needing barracks.