New unit: Conquistadores

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · October 09, 2006, 05:35 AM

http://www.totalwar.com/en/medieval2...its/index.html

Another great looking unit.
Only recruitable in America, very interesting :tooth:
Makes me wonder what more kinda units are we can recruit over there.

**talc** · October 09, 2006, 05:39 AM

ahh..probably belongs to spain...I wonder if every faction has one special unit that only they can recruit in america...

**Maslow** · October 09, 2006, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by talc

ahh..probably belongs to spain...I wonder if every faction has one special unit that only they can recruit in america...

I hope they will be spanish units, it would feel strange for me to fight french, english or even moorish (

) "conquistadores". Anyway i think every faction should have a special unit available in America in the place of conquistadores to allow the freedom of changing history in your own way.

**Roman-Warrior** · October 09, 2006, 05:51 AM

I thought they might have guns, o well.

-Wes

**Godfrey von Bereau** · October 09, 2006, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by Roman-Warrior

I thought they might have guns, o well.

-Wes

It's not Age of Empires II, lol!

But I guess it's a little bit strange, to recruit your invasion-force in the territory you are going to conquer! :hmmm:

**KaerMorhen** · October 09, 2006, 06:44 AM

I don't want to look like complete idiot but did native americans(aztec I mean) breed horses? I wonder where these Conquistadores get theirs stallions from. Maybe in tech tree will be a special "new world horse breeder" building to supply these units with horses or you'll have to ship them from Europe or Middle East?.

**roman oscar** · October 09, 2006, 06:52 AM

aztecs didnt breed horses and i think new horses came from europe

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · October 09, 2006, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by Foytaz

I don't want to look like complete idiot but did native americans(aztec I mean) breed horses? I wonder where these Conquistadores get theirs stallions from. Maybe in tech tree will be a special "new world horse breeder" building to supply these units with horses or you'll have to ship them from Europe or Middle East?.

Well since you can only recruit them in America it means you will need a province thus you "ship" the horses over.
But Econ on .org noted that there is dismounted version as well.

**Turkeys!** · October 09, 2006, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Foytaz

I don't want to look like complete idiot but did native americans(aztec I mean) breed horses? I wonder where these Conquistadores get theirs stallions from. Maybe in tech tree will be a special "new world horse breeder" building to supply these units with horses or you'll have to ship them from Europe or Middle East?.

No orginally natives didnt breed the horses until they all came from Europe

**PROMETHEUS ts** · October 09, 2006, 06:53 AM

I am a bit disappointed , I always supposed that they would look like those instead , at least for the helmet ......

Originally Posted by TB666

Makes me wonder what more kinda units are we can recruit over there.

I guess native allies like may be Tlalaxcans and some more....

**Cyrus the Virus** · October 09, 2006, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by PROMETHEUS ts

I am a bit disappointed , I always supposed that they would look like those instead , at least for the helmet ......

Thought so too

**The Mongol** · October 09, 2006, 09:56 AM

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!!!

The conquistadores that CA released look almost EXACTLY like the ones in Prom's picture. The clothes colour is different but the armor is the same!

Ahhhhhhhh!

On a happier and more sane note, nice unit. Hopefully there are some other cool mercenaries in the Americas.

**KaerMorhen** · October 09, 2006, 07:39 AM

Mounted/dismounted it doesn't matter - who they are recruited from?, natives?, I don't think so. Still if you even have a provice you have to ship men from motherland of yours and begin colonisation process. Then what is the porpose of these units if you can(must) ship new troops from old world?, anyways too weird for me.

**MadeManG74** · October 09, 2006, 07:56 AM

Looks good, Im a bit dissapointed they didnt have those funky helmets that Prometheus pointed out though.

I can understand why you can only have them in America, since they were meant to be invading the Americas and nowhere else. I suppose its just a way of CA ensuring you dont have Conquistadors attacking Jerusalem

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · October 09, 2006, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by MadeManG74

I can understand why you can only have them in America, since they were meant to be invading the Americas and nowhere else. I suppose its just a way of CA ensuring you dont have Conquistadors attacking Jerusalem

Well you can always ship them over to Europe afterwards

Still if you even have a provice you have to ship men from motherland of yours and begin colonisation process. Then what is the porpose of these units if you can(must) ship new troops from old world?, anyways too weird for me.

Well it makes perfect sense in my head but can't explain it

**Darsh** · October 09, 2006, 09:59 AM

nice unit but it lacks the famous spanish helmet.

**HorseArcher** · October 09, 2006, 10:04 AM

if someone wants a deeper read on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistadores

I always recognized them by the helmet.

**Charok** · October 09, 2006, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Archer

I always recognized them by the helmet.
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The Sword and Buckler Men have that helmet.

**quadrille** · October 09, 2006, 11:22 AM

Remember the helmet the 3d unit has is only one of several variations, maybe at least some of the soldiers in a unit will have the more typical conquistador helmet.