armor upgrades?

**awisler** · October 23, 2006, 08:37 PM

ive seen posts about armor upgrades? what are these? is it new? or are they just talking about having a blacksmith in each city offering armor/weapon bonuses? if its not that, what is it? upgrading from mail to plate in time or?

**Proximus** · October 23, 2006, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by awisler

or are they just talking about having a blacksmith in each city offering armor/weapon bonuses?

Yeah. Same as in every other Total War game.

**TigerVX** · October 23, 2006, 09:34 PM

However, in M2TW, the armour upgrades are now actively shown on the unit. (IE a unit with no upgrade will only have light leather armor, while one with bronze upgrade might get chain mail on the until instead). Personally, a feature I've wanted for some time

**Garnier** · October 23, 2006, 10:25 PM

the dumb thing is, once you have the blacksmith, all your units will have that armour anyway...

**Ragss** · October 24, 2006, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by Garnier

the dumb thing is, once you have the blacksmith, all your units will have that armour anyway...

Maybe they'll go back to the good 'ol ways of MTW where to get a master armourer takes a very, very long time.

**awisler** · October 24, 2006, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by TigerVX

However, in M2TW, the armour upgrades are now actively shown on the unit. (IE a unit with no upgrade will only have light leather armor, while one with bronze upgrade might get chain mail on the until instead). Personally, a feature I've wanted for some time

ahh sounds good, so now i could give my miltia line of cannon fodder(aka charge absorbers) an actual chance at surviving a charge and (most of them making it out alive) long enough for my main infantry to come in? would be nice to see miltia with heavy chain mail, they could withstand the charges better which would be less retraining.