Knights Hospitaller

Knights Hospitaller
Location Properties
Continent	Europe Asia
Naming Properties
Demonym	Knights Hospitaller
Base Statistics
City Count	44
Square City Count	3
Base Population	12,239,979
Consumers Required to Upkeep	12.23
Base Income ($)	629,292
Base Manpower Capacity	244,800
Requirements
Starting Nation(s)	Malta
Required Entities to Form	Cyprus Greece Israel Malta
Achievements
Stability Gain	10
Title	Templar
Interface
Decision Name	Re-establish the Crusader States
Decision Name	Re-establish the Crusader States
Decision Description	We, the Knights of Malta, have retaken the island of Rhodes, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Holy Land. Deus Vult!
Decision Description	We, the Knights of Malta, have retaken the island of Rhodes, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Holy Land. Deus Vult!
Title	Re-establish the Crusader States
Title	Re-establish the Crusader States
Description	We, the Knights of Malta, have retaken the island of Rhodes, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Holy Land. Deus Vult!
Description	We, the Knights of Malta, have retaken the island of Rhodes, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Holy Land. Deus Vult!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Resources
Aluminum	1.11
Aluminum	1.11
Copper	2.22
Copper	2.22
Gold	1.11
Gold	1.11
Oil	5.65
Oil	5.65

“	We, the Knights of Malta, have retaken the island of Rhodes, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Holy Land. Deus Vult!	„
	— Description of forming Knights Hospitaller

The Knights Hospitaller is a formable of Malta located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It requires Malta itself, as well as Greece, Cyprus and Israel. It's a relatively hard formable, primarily due to Greece, who usually gets taken by a nation like Turkey.

The user will be awarded with the Templar Title upon forming it in a public server.

Background

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headquartered in the Kingdom of Jerusalem until 1291, on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522, in Malta from 1530 until 1798 and at Saint Petersburg from 1799 until 1801. Today several organizations continue the Hospitaller tradition, most importantly the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

The Hospitallers arose in the early 11th century, during the time of the Cluniac movement (a Benedictine Reform movement), as a group of individuals associated with an Amalfitan hospital in the Muristan district of Jerusalem, dedicated to John the Baptist and founded around 1099 by Gerard Thom to provide care for sick, poor or injured pilgrims coming to the Holy Land. Some scholars, however, consider that the Amalfitan order and hospital were different from Gerard Thom's order and its hospital.

After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade, the organization became a military religious order under its own papal charter, charged with the care and defense of the Holy Land. Following the conquest of the Holy Land by Islamic forces, the knights operated from Rhodes, over which they were sovereign, and later from Malta, where they administered a vassal state under the Spanish viceroy of Sicily. The Hospitallers were one of the smallest groups to briefly colonize parts of the Americas: they acquired four Caribbean islands in the mid-17th century, which they turned over to France in the 1660s.

The knights became divided during the Protestant Reformation, when rich commanderies of the order in northern Germany and the Netherlands became Protestant and largely separated from the Roman Catholic main stem, remaining separate to this day, although ecumenical relations between the descendant chivalric orders are amicable. The order was suppressed in England, Denmark, as well as in some other parts of northern Europe, and it was further damaged by Napoleon's capture of Malta in 1798, following which it became dispersed throughout Europe.

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem was a Catholic Order. It headquartered in (the Latin Kingdom of) Jerusalem to 1291, and later on Rhodes from 1310 to 1522. It's final place would be given by the Crown of Aragon (By then, Spain had unified, although the crowns would merge in 1700.) of the Islands in modern Malta. The order had actually set up commanderies across Europe, although not directly owned.

The Knights Hospitaller would fall to France in 1798, and be annexed by Britain by the end of the Revolutionary Wars. Part of the reason why was due to the King of France owing them a fortune, so instead of paying, he arrested them all instead.

Economy and Manpower

The Knights Hospitaller has a base income of $1,169,252 and a manpower capacity of 305,924.

Resources

The Knights Hospitaller produces 5.65 units of Oil, 1.11 units of Aluminum, 1.11 units of Gold and 2.22 units of Copper.

Geography

This formable has 41 cities. The Knights Hospitaller is mostly flat, but Greece is Hilly. It borders Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. The only biome it has other than normal is Arid, covering Israel.

Threats

Major threats include:

• Turkey, who might take Greece or Cyprus for their formables.
• United Kingdom or Italy, who may take Malta for their formables.
• Egypt who might take Israel for territorial expansion into The Middle East .

Strategy

Firstly, create an Electronics Factory in your city before then researching Factory Output II and trading 2 Copper and 2 Gold, make sure to sell to AI nations whilst simultaneously justifying on Albania or Tunisia (your choice, both are required in common formables). After this, create a submarine and 50k troops which can protect you from early invasions by Italy, Greece, Turkey or France. Try to ally with Turkey early on, as they may be able to help you take Greece (however unlikely). Take the 50k you have just made (leaving 10k in Malta so you do not get capital rushed) and invade the country you justified on. Following on, you should now have solid MP and a forward base in either the Balkans or Northern Africa allowing you to expand in the future. Next, justify on Greece.

If Greece is a player:

- Use your submarine to your advantage as they will most likely think you're a weak target and will probably spam troops to rush your island. If you took Albania and you don't think you can hold it, don't worry, you can always get it back later, just remove your troops and force them to wait in the Mediterranean Sea. After the defeat of their troops, immediately send your 50,000 troops to seize Athens. By now, they have most likely rage quit but watch out for any troops leftover if you auto-capture the rest.

Next, justify on Israel before Egypt or Turkey can get to them. Afterwards, make sure to defend them with troops as either Turkey or Egypt could pose a surprise attack. If you can, try and create a second army to simultaneously take Cyprus, as you have stopped Turkish expansion into Europe and Parts of the Middle East which could make them invade it. Finally, you hold all the countries required to form Knights Hospitaller.