Comprehensive Feature List in Conquests

[Zero]

aww... I wanted to be the first in poly history to request for a ban....

[Saint Marcus]

you're not the first

[chilliwilli]

By the way that some kind of pikeman is confirmed as being a swiss mercenary.

[sabrewolf]

now that's something i anyway don't understand.

i'm swiss, but i've never heard of swiss mercenaries defending the dutch?!? i only know there are some pseudo-bodyguards of the vatican and the pope (but they're more symbolical).

is there any dutch around here who can explain why, when and where?

[statusperfect]

check this out sabrewolf:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/swiss_guard/swissguard/storia.htm

[sabrewolf]

thanks, interesting

but still no sign of why foreign mercenaries are a UU. as shown it the text, these were used in france, vatican, spain and other places.

i mean, come on... the swiss airforce has F/A-18 (modified version of the F-18). that doesn't make it our UU, or does it?

[statusperfect]

who says it is a UU?

it could be a scenario unit

[LordVipper]

.......cant......wait.....must.....have..........c onquests.....

[durfal]

Sabrewolf at your request:

the Swiss mercenaries became the most important economic link between the two allied republics (the Netherlands and Switzerland). At the end of the 18th century, 21.000 Swiss solders were stationed in the Netherlands (more than three times the figure of Swiss who live actually in the Netherlands). The Netherlands at that time became the second employer of Swiss mercenaries, after France.

"de Meuron Regiment": Swiss mercenaries employed by the Dutch from 1693 who defected to the British in 1795.

For a sum of 4000 Pound Sterling, professor Hugh Cleghorn of St. Andrew’s University of Scotland (During this period he was their secret agent, a master of espionage or in other words) manoeuvred Count de Meuron’s Corp of Swiss mercenaries to desert whom they were fighting for and switch over to the British.

The Swiss were on their (the Dutch) finest fighting arms and without them with their combatants lessened, they were left high and dry and finally without much of a fight, the Dutch capitulated to the British and the Swiss were with the victors, the British and were known as Regiment de Meuron.

Conclusion, it could be the dutch UU but it could also be an conquest unit.
But if we get them as an UU we have to watch our back cause they would change sides when they are offered a bribe.

[Anakha]

Just another quick comment on the Dutch as they are shown in the first post: the leader should be King William, not King Williams (unless Firaxis made an error).

[Panag]

Originally posted by sabrewolf

thanks, interesting

but still no sign of why foreign mercenaries are a UU. as shown it the text, these were used in france, vatican, spain and other places.

i mean, come on... the swiss airforce has F/A-18 (modified version of the F-18). that doesn't make it our UU, or does it?

hi ,

, a swiss UU should be either mountain troops or them biking troops , ....

have a nice day

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by panag
, a swiss UU should be either mountain troops or them biking troops , ....

what???

well, if you would have read the thread it should be clear, that the swiss mercenaries should be the UU - if anything.

or a hellebardier, a replacement for the medieval infantry...

but now, back on topic

[Panag]

Originally posted by sabrewolf


what???

well, if you would have read the thread it should be clear, that the swiss mercenaries should be the UU - if anything.

or a hellebardier, a replacement for the medieval infantry...

but now, back on topic

hi ,

duh , subscribed since the second message , .....

more thinking about a current UU , ........

have a nice day

[Tiberius]

There isn't any swiss UU because there isn't a swiss civ The talk was about the dutch UU.

Btw, King Williams sounds nice. He'll fight against King McLaren, I suppose

[Stuie]

From ugo.com (http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/fe...iv3_conquests/)

Or, later in the game, you might want to create a Secret Police Headquarters in your capitol, to downright wipe civil unrest off the map

I hadn't seen mention of this before. Cool.