Question about weapons:

[Mikel]

I know units can have a number of heads, torsos, shields, etc to choose from in order to look unique but I was wondering about their weapons.

The reason for this is that certain places that did not have formal (professional) armies like Sicily, Iberia, Balkans, etc are a mix of cultures so you'd have some European mixed with some Muslim.

Think El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) where his army was Christian and Muslim, fighting side by side. So you'd expect those units to be some european, some arab, mixed in armor and weapons. So I was wondering how far we could potentially take this..

[♔ST0MPA♔]

If you look at the kings banner mod he is working on adding multi weapons to the units, i believe it is very time consuming but he is making progress.

[Socal_infidel]

The problem with mixed varieties of weapons is a unit can only use one animation.

[Mikel]

What do you mean, one animation? As on only hacking or only slashing or only stabbing if we were to add mroe than one type of sword to a unit?

[Socal_infidel]

What do you mean, one animation? As on only hacking or only slashing or only stabbing if we were to add mroe than one type of sword to a unit?

I meant that you can't have some soldiers within a unit have polearms, some have spears, some swords, some hand-axes. As all soldiers would use one animation set. So you'd see an two-handed axemen wielding his axe like a spear...

[VanguardXIII]

But still, isn't it then possible to have arab and christian swords in one unit? I always though there actually were some units, some with more western, and some with more eastern, uniforms (helmets, headwraps, etc).

Don't the Byzantines field some like this? I'm pretty sure i've seen this. There's latinikon, norman knights, that I can think of.

[♔ST0MPA♔]

AS long as they can use the same animation then it can clearly as soon above be done. you can also add multicultural garments and heads but, you would have to create that unit as a stand alone for byzantine or Valencia, or everytime you made a spear unit or sword unit it would have a middle eastern presence about it which would look strange. for say a country of Scotland or Denmark

there is of course one possible way i can think of to get polearm and sword weapons working together in one unit, if you notice the unit has an officer, who would use the sword animation as opposed the two handed one, so in theory you could add a sword unit in as an officer of three or five but that might cause issues.

[Mikel]

Even if they're new units? I mean, specific units for factions that are inter-cultural could cross over to other factions? I was thinking something more of an AoR type of thing..like units only recrutiable in the region of middle and south Iberia, Sicily and south Italia, Byzantine empire lands, etc..

[♔ST0MPA♔]

Yes good idea