Unique bodygaurds

[hochmeister devin]

I was just wondering, is it possible to have it so a general with a certain ancillary/trait gets a different bodyguard then normal? I'll give you an example: every general with the house of var ancillary, gets Bodyguard of var.

[Noobio]

I don't think that's possible..but i'm quite a noob

anyway,
there was a certain Third Age submod that managed to change BGs midgame, but even that had its limitations
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=490115

[hochmeister devin]

Damn it that will make my mod much more limited.

[confused german]

You can edit the "starter's" generals bg by descr_strat or you can spawn generals by script and thereby give a special bg. But a connection from trait/anc to bg has never been found and searched a lot.

[EP!anastasi]

But a connection from trait/anc to bg has never been found and searched a lot.

Well, there are those that give +personal security to a general, and this way add men to his bodyguard, but still doesn't make them unique.

[confused german]

You right! One can change number of BG troops via trait or anc by adding personal security. That's why Kinds and Heirs in normal game have bigger BGs. What I did this to my personal mod of TA was to include ancs and traits thar modify BG numbers and generals Hps moreover I edited a lot of unique BGs by desc_strat so in Gondor f.ex. theres a Axemen Bg, a P. Marines BG and so on...
But only for the starters; later BGs that spawn "normal" by coming_of_age or adoption etc. still have the one bg; for Gondor its a cav unit.
By the way the "general_unit"-unit of any faction that comes first in EDU is the one that the new guys get.
Other possibility is only via script afaik.

[EP!anastasi]

There's also this "new discovery"

Implementing Marian Reforms in M2TW

When the reforms are triggered, the family members of every faction will switch the their upgraded bodyguard unit, if one is available.

But i'm not sure if it fits the OP