Armored Sagitarii for WRE?

[marceror]

Wondering if anyone would be kind enough to point where I should be looking to add armored Sagitarii for the WRE. I suppose that I'd need to update their research options to allow the upgrade from the starting Sagitarii to the armored. And also make sure that the garrisons update as well.

I know WRE already gets good javelin troops, but I prefer to bring archers to a battle. It would be nice to have the tier 2 unit at some point in my campaign.

[marceror]

I'm going to have to figure this out on my own, aren't I?

[marceror]

Well, I think I got it working, but it took a bit of tomfoolery to do it. Getting the unit upgrade assigned to the right technology was easy enough to figure out. Then I figured out how to assign a unit to a group... initially and I assigned the armored sagittarii to be roman core rather than roman eastern. But, something about the sharing of units between WRE and ERE seems to be tricky about this. I was only able to get the armored sagittarii to show up on the technology tree when I switched them to be exclusive to roman west.

But, I did a very quick test with this and after upgrade to the first technology, all of my garrisons switched from standard sagittarii to armored, and in my military recruitment buildings this switched over too. It doesn't work right if you assign it to an already researched tech, so now to attach it to a military tech I haven't researched, and in 8 turns I should be able to see this in my campaign in progress.

Thanks for all the help everyone. Err, me.

(I know the rest of you just wanted to let me work it out on my own. I appreciate that faith you have in me!)

[marceror]

Okay... I finally got this working "properly". It's amazing how much easier things become after some trial and error, and one actually understands the impact of the changes they make.

And the final change was actually much easier than I originally thought it would be.

For those who are interested, the only thing that needs to be changed is a new row needs to be added to units_to_groupings_military_permissions that assigns armored sagittarii to the rome_west group. Upon doing this I verified that both the WRE and the ERE both had this upgrade available in their technology tree, so now I'm not robbing the ERE of one of their tier 2 units! It's not even necessary to touch the technology table, since a shared technology between ERE and WRE already has an entry for the armored sagittarii upgrade. WRE just needs that unit assigned to their faction so the upgrade will be available to them.

Hmm, considering that I had never looked at either of those tables before last night, and knew absolutely nothing about this, I have to say I didn't do too badly for a couple hour's work.