Tartantyco said:
-Well, I just tried it out and it looks like the items are overwritten pretty soon. The game randomizes soldier equipment(At least lower tier ones) and every time one of the items you placed there is randomized it disappears in favor for the one picked by the game. It looks like the main body armor is untouched by this though(I used Swadian militia for this small test), but I lost leg armor, main weapon and shield in successive battles.
That's true. Using this tweak is just like using the troop editor from within the game. If you've used the troop editor before you should be familiar to random selection of items.
The game picks up items randomly from a list of items available for a specific unit. Hired Blades for instance, have Great Helmet and Guard Helmet in their equipment list. This means some of them will be spawned with a Great Helmet and others with a Guard Helmet.
There's also "guaranteed equipment" for units. For example, you may give horses to Huscarls but since they're not mounted units and horse is not a quaranteed equipment for Huscarls, only some of them will be spawned with a horse. Likewise, for some units, even a helmet is not guaranteed. If you give helmets to such units, they may or may not use it. But almost all units, maybe except looters, body armor is a guaranteed equipment.
There's a way to make sure the units get spawned with only the equipment you gave them. Simply talk to them repeatedly and transfer all their equipment to your inventory, then equip them with only the equipment you want. This prevents randomization.
When you change a unit's equipment, that will affect all units of that type in the game, even though they are not in your party.
BTW, items that you give to a unit are not overwritten or disappear completely. They are still in unit's equipment list but the game doesn't pick those items in the party/talk screen, that's why you can't see them.
Banned
