Gnawing Idea.

[Trucido]

I've had a question gnawing at the back of my head since I bought M2. I've always been troubled about the weapon arrangement. To me it seems odd that everyone is equipped with the same weapons. I understand speermen as a solid unit, but when you have a group of soldiers like the highlanders would it not make more sense to have them use a myriad of weapons?

I don't know if it is possible with the limitations of the coding but could certain units be equipped with different weapons at one time?

[Moobke]

I thought about this alot... but i think you can't let a squad use different kind of weapons. (They want to keep some cool stuff for a new total war? ^^)

But well, maybe some1 else here knows how to do it?

[Rusty Hammer]

interesting thought.......militias and levys certainly would be equipped in that manner

[Trucido]

Even knights could be equipped as such, some using swords and shields, others with halberds picks hammers great swords and so on. The only thing I can think that would hold it back is the coding I don't know if it would allow a pool of weapons to be available to a group of soldiers and randomly pick weapons for the soldiers. Perhaps it could rely on a system like the body parts?

[The Sundance Kid]

It would also screw up "good against cavalry/infantry/spears" etc., because that is based purely on weapon. If a group of 100 knights all have different weapons, ranging from swords to maces to halberds, they all have their own personal fighting prowess, therefore calling for the need of individual unit stats. In M2, pretty much impossible.

[tornnight]

Not easy to do. Someone would have to modify the unit models to do it.

Beyond that, the limitation is that you can only have one kind of annimation attached to a unit.

I won't be doing that myself but you never know what the community will come up with.