How do I get golden armor and swords?

[RTRplayer29004]

I have the top blacksmith building built and I still only get silver stuff!

[Winter]

I don't think that the gold armor upgrades are possible anymore.

[Artax]

You can only get units with golden armor and weapon upgrades by bribing revolted rebels. As far as I have seen only they have such.

[Companion Cavalry]

I've gotten a gold sword upgrade with a very experienced unit (2 gold chevrons)

[florin80]

Weren`t the gold armor upgrades generated by temples only in vanilla RTW? `cause I think that is why they are missing in RTR. It was judged that priests can`t improve armor so it was removed all together. That`s how I remember it at least.

[RedXIII]

Weren`t the gold armor upgrades generated by temples only in vanilla RTW? `cause I think that is why they are missing in RTR. It was judged that priests can`t improve armor so it was removed all together. That`s how I remember it at least.

That sounds familiar, so that is probably dead on.

[CiusFortius]

Don't think so. There were 3 levels of blacksmith in vanilla and the top level gave gold I thought. Been so long though that I may have forgotten. The temple upgrades were sometimes rediculous. Macedon getting +5 missille weapons etc was huge.

[Mars Magnus]

Don't think so. There were 3 levels of blacksmith in vanilla and the top level gave gold I thought. Been so long though that I may have forgotten. The temple upgrades were sometimes rediculous. Macedon getting +5 missille weapons etc was huge.

No,the first smith gives you 1 attack.
the second one attack and defence.
the third 2 attack and defence.

But 3,never.Only the tempels could change that.

[pralexander ashoka]

I've gotten a gold sword upgrade with a very experienced unit (2 gold chevrons)

same thing happend to me.

[Mathias]

It was impossible to get gold upgrades in vanilla without temples, and in RTR temples doesn't give bonuses like that. End of story.

[pralexander ashoka]

i think its available only with gold experienced unit

[Companion Cavalry]

update:

I've installed the mn mod and golden armour and swords is available to

settlements with mines

[PriestLizard]

A little bit offtopic: do the different temples still have different advantages too? As far as I can tell from playing with Bactria, all temples are the same, no matter to what god/entity they are aligned.

I think in vanilla it was different. Was the feature completely removed? If so, why? Wouldn't it be realistic that a temple for a god of merchants would increase economy etc.?

[Artax]

I think in vanilla it was different. Was the feature completely removed? If so, why? Wouldn't it be realistic that a temple for a god of merchants would increase economy etc.?

Different temples give different priest retinues. Your mentioned temple of trade god are giving a retinue "priest of ..." which adds economical bonuses such as +2 management. It's just an example.

IMO it would be unrealistic if temples would give bonuses such as "increase in trade goods" becouse temple itself is not a forum or a market. However priest who studied at this temple knows a lot about trade so your governor has him as advisor and therefore you have more income.

[PriestLizard]

Well, the way I saw it was like this: the local community of a temple would do their best, to also increase the 'material'/'real' influence of their entity. Lets say the community for a god of merchants, they would support local economy, they would also lure more merchants into town etc.

However, the idea about priest retinues is a lot better I guess. At least it really makes sense and cannot be questioned (basically). Hehe I didn't realized it but now I get it... I already wondered why most of my governers have priest retinues.

I see the people of RTR really know what they are doing.

[Haedar]

That possible by following this steppes:
1) open rome total war\data\export_descr_buildingsbuilding smith

2) in this file (export_descr_buildings) search for word {building smith} it look like before changes

building smith
{
levels blacksmith smiths_workshop foundry
{
blacksmith requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market trader
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 0 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 1
weapon_bladed 1
}
construction 3
cost 1200
settlement_min large_town
upgrades
{
smiths_workshop
}
}
smiths_workshop requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market market
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot heavy briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "east chariot archer" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "egyptian chariot archer" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 2 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 1
weapon_bladed 1
weapon_missile 1
armour 1
}
construction 4
cost 2400
settlement_min city
upgrades
{
foundry
}
}
foundry requires factions { carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market great_forum
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot heavy briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "east chariot archer" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "egyptian chariot archer" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 2 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 2
weapon_bladed 2
weapon_missile 2
armour 2
}
construction 6
cost 6400
settlement_min huge_city
upgrades
{
}
}
}
plugins
{
}
}

now just change the value of weapons and aromourers and missiles 1,2,3 so when I do that it will look like
after changes


building smith
{
levels blacksmith smiths_workshop foundry
{
blacksmith requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market trader
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 0 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 1
weapon_bladed 1
}
construction 3
cost 1200
settlement_min large_town
upgrades
{
smiths_workshop
}
}
smiths_workshop requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market market
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot heavy briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "east chariot archer" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "egyptian chariot archer" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 2 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 2
weapon_bladed 2
weapon_missile 2
armour 2
}
construction 4
cost 2400
settlement_min city
upgrades
{
foundry
}
}
foundry requires factions { carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and building_present_min_level market great_forum
{
capability
{
recruit "barb chariot heavy briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "barb chariot light briton" 0 requires factions { britons, }
recruit "east scythed chariot" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "east chariot archer" 0 requires factions { pontus, }
recruit "egyptian chariot" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "egyptian chariot archer" 0 requires factions { egyptian, }
recruit "rebel amazon chariots" 2 requires factions { slave, }
recruit "greek chariot scythed" 0 requires factions { seleucid, }
weapon_simple 3
weapon_bladed 3
weapon_missile 3
armour 3
}
construction 6
cost 6400
settlement_min huge_city
upgrades
{
}
}
}
plugins
{
}
}
save and start your game
thats all I tried that and I get golden armor and swords good luck. 1

[yourefired]

thanks for the tip maybe now i can have the nubians with gold weapons