Guilds Explained - Medieval 2 Total War

Welcome to a Guide on Guilds in Medieval 2 Total War.

Today, I go over what Guilds are, what each one specifically does, and how to get them. : )

This video is a simplified and easier to access version of this site.

Enjoy : )

[duwal]

One of the most important guilds to get, for catholic factions, are the theologians guild headquaters (THQ). If you have the THQ in a city, where you also have a huge cathedral, all the priests you recruit are high level bishops, and will in a few turns become cardinals. Most of them quickly become the rank of peferati.
Thereby you control the papal elections, and can go from bad standing with the pope to best freinds as soon as the old pope die.

[RocketHarry]

If only Templar chapter houses had bonus to income to represent the Templars becoming bankers

[selder_]

In my France playthrough where I took over the world. I had an army of Scots guard, horse archers and knights hospitaller trained in Paris. Always cool when you can get such a great army from a city

[Niscimble]

I've been looking for something like this for years

[SleepyCS]

Have a little over 4000 hours playing total war 2 & lately I've been on a journey of delving into how the mechanics really work.
This has been one of the most informative videos I've seen

[nickkoo]

Now I’m going to play another campaign now that I understand how this works

[matthewbrennan]

MUCH NEEDED since forever. thank you Melkor!!!

[Sharnoy]

If I only knew this back in 2006...
Better late than never I guess! :)

[Tomekurens]

you are THE guy that makes made me able to win a total war campaign. Thank you

[ryanpatterson]

I always wondered what the actual mechanic behind guild acquisition was. I would just keep building associated units or agents till I got what I wanted but had no idea it was a point system. Thanks

[StalkRay]

Please do more guides on Medieval 2, let the new generations know how Total War used to be and also the best Total War CA has made

[martonberesdeak]

bro, I'm a massive veteran of 'the' game and did not know these rules at all. Thanks it really does make it more interesting!!

[tysmi]

Wow, I didn't know there were actually that many guilds! I played this game on and off and only just recently I saw a quest pop-up when playing the Spanish to overthrow the current French King for the son of that faction. Loads of little gems hidden in this title and a shame the future games (aside Shogun 2) never really inspired me to keep coming back to play them.

[JosephCapelli]

Great stuff, thank you Melkor. Still a truly underappreciated TW YouTuber.

[AbnormalObs]

Freaking love guilds. I always enjoyed working towards guilds to supplement a faction or regions weakness.

Sorely missed from later titles.

[ke-mob]

Interesting. Didn't know that! Thnk you for this information and keep up the good work! 👍🏻

[TheDeadbone]

Thanks for the guide! Some guilds seemed important (Thieves), some just a scam (Explorer). Now I know :)

[SplendidFactor]

Nice. Now I'll hop back into Medieval 2 with this new knowledge, thank you.

[TimmacTR]

I just remembered this now, it was such a great system.

[SereglothIV]

That was very informative. I play a Milan campaign where I want to sail to America (I've never done it!) and it would be cool to have Explorers Guild HQ in Genoa.