Provost Gloats: I Am Right, It Is Saltpeter: Confirmed!

[Provost Harrison]

Reading through the new civ of the week, I noticed the special unit is the cossack, an upgraded version of the cavalry.

I will now quote from the civ of the week:

The Cossack is an upgraded version of the cavalry. Like cavalry, it requires both horses and saltpeter to build, but it also adds an additional point of defense to an already formidable set of combat statistics. With their high movement rates, deadly offensive capability, and solid defensive rating, the Cossack is a unit you don't want to tangle with.

So it looks like my educated guess was right, this mystery white powder most certainly is saltpeter (see Gramphos's thread on resources in the game to see what I am talking about)

Thankyou, thankyou ladies and gentlemen

[MarkG]

hmmm, it must be geting late....

[Mars]

applauds; congradulations

[Mister Pleasant]

Saltpeter - required for gunpowder, but causes slowing in the rate of population growth!

[Mars]

Saltpeter - required for gunpowder, but causes slowing in the rate of population growth!

Why would it cause a slowing in the population growth.
isn't saltpeter just cow manure burnt and then grinded up into a powder?

[squid]

Could pretty flowers be a resource required for building the french unique unit?

[Provost Harrison]

Nope, saltpeter would be mined as it is a crystalline deposit. Quite as to why it effects population growth, it escapes me. Must be a cryptic joke...

[sekong]

Where is the thread about resource?

Could you give the link?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by squid
Could pretty flowers be a resource required for building the french unique unit?

Nope, snails and garlic, obviously

[Mars]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Nope, saltpeter would be mined as it is a crystalline deposit. Quite as to why it effects population growth, it escapes me. Must be a cryptic joke...

Oh, whoops, my source must be wrong.

[Rakki]

well you can mine it or you can extract it from elsewhere... I do believe they used to use urine and crap for this purpose. Where the urine comes from, well, there always seems to be a lot of people around....

[Urban Ranger]

Big deal.

So you got it right once for a change, Provost. Just ignore the times you were wrong.

You could become a professional psychic

[Col Bigspear]

Originally posted by squid
Could pretty flowers be a resource required for building the french unique unit?

LOL

[Inverse Icarus]

i dont see how flowers could make a musketeer... oh wait, i missed the word french my first time reading

isnt Saltpeter that stuff they give the navy guys to refrain from homosexuality?

[Gramphos]

As soon as you came up with the idea I thought it was right, that was why I added it to the list (followed by a '?'). Now you have proven yourself correct and the '?' is gone.