How in the world...?

[Ivan Rogov]

My ally Byzantium and I are at war with the Ottomans and Mamluks. Byz controls a ML province. BYZ is land tech 12, ML is 11. I look at the tooltip for a unit being built in the occupied province. Landsknecht. What!?!? LK is tech 13, how in the world is BYZ building 1 level higher than they are??

 

[Emperor Hans]

That and Landsknechten is a Western unit whilst Byzantium is Oriental, did the province have a the core of a West-European country ?

 

[xcrissxcrossx]

If one of their provinces has a core of another country, it can build the units of the other country. Say they took a Venetian core, then they could build Venetian units for the next 50 years.

 

[jdrou]

If BYZ is building in a controlled province they don't own it would have to be a mercenary unit. Somehow they must have Landsknecht in their mercenary pool.

 

[unmerged(473078)]

If one of their provinces has a core of another country, it can build the units of the other country. Say they took a Venetian core, then they could build Venetian units for the next 50 years.

I bet that this is it, I often find myself building higher than my land tech in europe.