When do you get Gunpowder Units

[Greatdictator]

Hi i am new here and i was wondering those any1 know when i am gonna get gunpowder units not the cannons but soilders cause i am playing the Turks and i have bean in the gunpowder age for sometime i never can get any1 of those units
I need those Guns to Get Rid off those annoying Mongolians

[chris watton]

Gunpowder units will not help you against the Mongols, I'm afraid, Trbuchet's are still more effectime most of the time, along with archers and merc archer cavalry. The gunpowder units may find their target on a couple of occasions and kill arounf 3 to three our of the three thousand Mongol army, but as soon as ammo runs out, you will get swamped. (from my experience)
Gunpowder is available quite early on, way before the 100th turn, IIRC!

[Price]

I'm currently doing a Milanese campaign with a little florin bonus of 10,000,000 startoff and 10,000 king's purse (I want to have a bit of fun) and I just realised that you have to get them from cities, not castles. That's what I tried to do on my previous (Non-cheating) game as the English, and I was really confused.

As soon as gunpowder was invented I could train Arqubusiers and and Hand Gunners in most of my Huge Cities, and I was able to make a Royal Barracks in Milan which will enable me to train Musketeers, and gunpowder has only been around for a couple of turns.

So basically, try getting some of the best barracks in your cities, NOT castles.

[Theoden]

I've had gunpowder for ages in my english campaign and up2 turn 130 but all i've been able to build is mortors, cannons and the various other seige weapons and soon to be able to get culv's but not be able to recruit infantry even in my big cities. I think i've just been able to build the building for the inf but i dunno till its built :S

[SIlver General65]

I think the cannons are the best deal you get out of that revulation and get this you hit a aztec wall and its down in one hit but anyways affective sige although the trebuchate isint something not to throw away but rember I think muskets went efective till battle was lineing u your soldiers...(why not give them a pike..)