Modifications troop equipment are... not working. HELP PLS

[JohnVicres]

Playing Gekokujo 3.1 with Sugoroku and 3 Shogun Armor (http://www.moddb.com/mods/gekokujo/downloads/gekokujo-31-with-suguroku-and-3-shogun-armor)
And using Morgh's Editor

I've been wrecking my head to try to make the specialist monk troops (from Kokawa and Mii) use the blueblood monk armor, that has a built-in shawl and looks pretty cool, but I have not for my life managed to do this for some ****ing reason! Its not armor requirements, the armor flags are all normal, I've added the items nice and properly into the troop loadouts, and they even show up in-game on ANY type of scene that is not a battle... Because in a battle they switch to some random-ass armor. And it's not just the one specific armor; It happens with any sort of equipment that is not a weapon, and so far I've only seen it happen on these troops.
I have some long time gone in playing M&BW, but this is the first "bug" that has got me raging in full helplessness, what the hell is going on 

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Did you make sure to start a new game each time you make a modification? Remember, edits you make to troops and their gear mid game won't show up in that game, only when you start over.

 

[JohnVicres]

Did you make sure to start a new game each time you make a modification? Remember, edits you make to troops and their gear mid game won't show up in that game, only when you start over.

Didn't work. Same issue. What I really fail to understand is why it only happens in a battle scenario: on any other scenario (like walking through a town, the Walk Around cheat, guard posts in settlements, party menu, even checking the troop's equipment pool) it shows what I tried to add in, and works properly. I have some assumptions that either these specific troops or troop types (fort units) have a different string setup for some reason, or that M&B isn't recognizing the modifications I made and resorting to some weird "substitute armor" failsafe.
So far, I can pinpoint that headpieces appear unnaffected, only the body-hand-feet pieces are being substituted.
Haven't checked if these troops still malfunction if on an AI party, will do.
The equipment itself is fine: tested on player character and companions, also modified some Ikko monks and they displayed the changes.

 

[Harada]

Same problem here I reworked their equipment a bit with Morgh's editor (updated units and saved changes of course), made sure their stats were matching, new game to check...etc : doesn't work during battle they still have their old equipment

Any hints ?