explorer's guild/ knights of rhodes

**Strategos83** · January 15, 2007, 04:24 PM

Can someone tell me what the Explorer's Guild does? I dropped 3 grand getting their HQ and so far haven't found where I can leverage that expenditure..

And also, do the Knights of Rhodes exists? I have been sitting as the Byzantines with serious lost trade/ tax income from having a stinkin' castle on Rhodes (instead of city with an advanced port etc with a dozen trade routes) for my whole game in the hopes of getting a Knights of Santiago type option awarded to me there...or are the Knights of Rhodes a figment of my imagination in MTWII? :hmmm:

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In my game, my plan was to annihilate the Turks and reestablish Christian supremacy in the East, yet the Catholics soon drew my attentions to Italy such that I am now at war with all of Western Europe while the Turks have been my dependable allies, never even patrolling near my part of Asia Minor - and best of all they are completely absorbing the Mongol invasion!

Goes to show how the tides of diplomacy and religion often flow in completely different directions....

**Revan The Great** · January 15, 2007, 04:28 PM

I'm 99.99% sure Knights of Rhodes do not exist. Just look at the Byzantine faction roster in Custom battles, that should be indication enough.

Afterall, Knights of Santiago appear in Spain and Portugal's roster.

**shinji86** · January 15, 2007, 04:44 PM

what is the rule to have some guilds can any one help what we have to do to have a guild rather than merchant or thieves guild....... i have 21 tutonic order guild donow why!! i want the other bonnusss

**Strategos83** · January 15, 2007, 05:00 PM

Thanks dude. Have to wait for a modder on that one I guess. Malta, Rhodes..MTWII Total Realism should have all those ones for sure.

Ill turn that castle into a $city$ now..
Cheers

**MarkPharaoh** · January 16, 2007, 12:04 AM

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72447

**parvus** · January 16, 2007, 02:51 AM

explorer's guilds r good. they allow ur troops to move further

**Veritas** · January 18, 2007, 02:03 PM

That will be cool to get some more knightly orders in the game. It does already have the Knights of Malta though as the Knights Hospitaller.

**Grox** · January 18, 2007, 11:40 PM

BTW, why doesn't Malta appear on the M2TW map?

It was a pretty important place in the Middle Ages!

**mhisteal** · January 26, 2007, 02:06 PM

I have wondered the SAME thing since day one!!!

WHERE IS MALTA????

**Grifman** · January 26, 2007, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Strategos83

Can someone tell me what the Explorer's Guild does? I dropped 3 grand getting their HQ and so far haven't found where I can leverage that expenditure..

And also, do the Knights of Rhodes exists? I have been sitting as the Byzantines with serious lost trade/ tax income from having a stinkin' castle on Rhodes (instead of city with an advanced port etc with a dozen trade routes) for my whole game in the hopes of getting a Knights of Santiago type option awarded to me there...or are the Knights of Rhodes a figment of my imagination in MTWII? :hmmm:

Why would the Byzantines get Knight of Rhodes which are a Western European group? Knights belong to the Latin West, not the Greek East.

**Strategos83** · January 26, 2007, 05:45 PM

#1 'Cause I own the goddamn island. Rome wasn't sacked by a bunch of greeks either but I got to do that, why not one cool order?

#2 Your revealing of my historical ineptitude shames me and now I must challenge you in mortal battle..On guard!

**mhisteal** · January 27, 2007, 03:00 PM

What do you think the Varangian Guard are? Very similar to a Knightly Order. Someone could mod in a Varangian Guard Cavalry to be a sort of Knightly Order for the Byzantines. Why not?

The Kataphractoi are pretty much knights, they just don't have the word "knight" in the name. There's no reason the Byzantines (a christian faction) can't have some kind of elite order of cavalry charged with defending their faith.

**Lubeck** · February 04, 2007, 05:15 PM

The Knights of Rhodes are the Knights Hospitallers. When the Holy Land was completely taken over by the Muslims they needed a new place to chill so they first went to Cyprus but moved on when they wanted their very own island to call home. After the Ottomons kicked them outta Rhodes they moved on to Malta, where they beat up on the Ottomons who tried to exterminate them.

The "Knights of Rhodes" continued on Malta until Napoleon "conquered" Malta by getting his fleet into the harbor and past the defenses saying they wanted to resupply. Once past the harbor defenses they turned their guns on the forts and demanded surrender.

Another "glorious" victory for the petite corsican.

**Condottiere SOG** · February 27, 2007, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Strategos83

Can someone tell me what the Explorer's Guild does? I dropped 3 grand getting their HQ and so far haven't found where I can leverage that expenditure..

And also, do the Knights of Rhodes exists? I have been sitting as the Byzantines with serious lost trade/ tax income from having a stinkin' castle on Rhodes (instead of city with an advanced port etc with a dozen trade routes) for my whole game in the hopes of getting a Knights of Santiago type option awarded to me there...or are the Knights of Rhodes a figment of my imagination in MTWII? :hmmm:

__________________________________________________________________

In my game, my plan was to annihilate the Turks and reestablish Christian supremacy in the East, yet the Catholics soon drew my attentions to Italy such that I am now at war with all of Western Europe while the Turks have been my dependable allies, never even patrolling near my part of Asia Minor - and best of all they are completely absorbing the Mongol invasion!

Goes to show how the tides of diplomacy and religion often flow in completely different directions....

The Knights of Rhodes were the Knights of Saint John, the Hospitallers under such greats as Grandmaster Villiers. They were there after loosing their foothold in the Levant and Cypus against the Selyuks.

Originally Posted by Lubeck

The Knights of Rhodes are the Knights Hospitallers. When the Holy Land was completely taken over by the Muslims they needed a new place to chill so they first went to Cyprus but moved on when they wanted their very own island to call home. After the Ottomons kicked them outta Rhodes they moved on to Malta, where they beat up on the Ottomons who tried to exterminate them.

The "Knights of Rhodes" continued on Malta until Napoleon "conquered" Malta by getting his fleet into the harbor and past the defenses saying they wanted to resupply. Once past the harbor defenses they turned their guns on the forts and demanded surrender.

Another "glorious" victory for the petite corsican.

They still exist to date! Now known as the Knights of Malta.