how to get gold armour/weapons?

[Zappo]

I have a couple of cities (38k+ population and have all the buildings completed), but when i retrain an army, i only get the silver armour and weapon. What gives?

[Final Frontier]

That's the highest you will be able to go for the Julii and Brutii. The Scipii, however, are able to build temples that provide additional strength/armor. So I suggest you take Scipii cities, especially ones with the Temple of Vulcan because that is the temple which allows gold strength/armor. If you are not in the civil war yet, then you will have to wait.

[Corrosion]

If you want them at the start ot the game (all troops and general have advanced weapons, shields and expericence) in the descr_strat change

This

exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

Too

exp 9 armour 3 weapon_lvl 9

[Hader]

Foundries will only upgrade the armour and weeapons to silver. You need temple bonuses to get them higher, like The Selucid Empire said. I know that the Gauls have temples that give archers gold weapons, so that would be something to keep in mind.

[NobleNick]

...in the descr_strat change...
Too

exp 9 armour 3 weapon_lvl 9

Don't you mean:

Too

exp 9 armour 3 weapon_lvl 3

?

[Corrosion]

Don't you mean:

Too

exp 9 armour 3 weapon_lvl 3

?

Nope I used the code I wrote for carthage and it works for me.

[Davidicus Rex]

You can edit the export_descr_building file. Find the blacksmith buildings and then change them to something like this:

1° Lvl: +1 weapons (both light & heavy)
+1 Missile
+1 Armour

2° Lvl: +2 weapons (both light & heavy)
+2 Missile
+2 Armour

3° Lvl: +3 weapons (both light & heavy)
+3 Missile
+3 Armour

Save the file and start up a game. In cities where you have upgraded to the top level blacksmith you would be able to get all gold for all weapons/armour. Hope this helps.

[Legionary Jezza]

for seleucids the temple of hephastus

[hellheaven1987]

Another way, which is quite rare, is waiting some provinces rebel and automatically become yours. Although the rebel units probably just peasants, they usually equip with gold weapon and armour!

[Hader]

In one of my old campaigns as the Julii, I had conquered every town except for 2: Dumatha under Egypts flag and another town in south Africa owned by rebels.(was playing vanilla) I tried taking the rebel town with a few cohorts and they easily took it, but no matter what I did I could not raise public order. Eventually I lost the town to rioting, then retook it later and exterminated them down to 400 people. Then they rioted again and their new rebel garrison consisted of 4 peasants with full gold chevrons and weapons/armour and 3 militia cavalry with all gold too! How the heck do you get that many men (about 800!) from a town of 400 with that kind of armour! Crazy!

[hellheaven1987]

In one of my old campaigns as the Julii, I had conquered every town except for 2: Dumatha under Egypts flag and another town in south Africa owned by rebels.(was playing vanilla) I tried taking the rebel town with a few cohorts and they easily took it, but no matter what I did I could not raise public order. Eventually I lost the town to rioting, then retook it later and exterminated them down to 400 people. Then they rioted again and their new rebel garrison consisted of 4 peasants with full gold chevrons and weapons/armour and 3 militia cavalry with all gold too! How the heck do you get that many men (about 800!) from a town of 400 with that kind of armour! Crazy!

May be God helps them? :laughing:

[Hader]

Well I crushed them- with 2 of my best legions- and asserted Roman order. Although public oreder was at 80%, it was fine with me.