M2TW armor upgrade system messed up--Can it be fixed?

**TWFanatic** · 05-29-2008, 21:43

Atm, M2:TW armor-ratings seem to be set up this way in EDU:
Light Mail counts as 4 or 5 armor, heavy mail as 7, partial plate as 8, full plate as 10, and advanced plate as 11.

I am very annoyed that the armor points for my units are only upgraded ONE point for each armor upgrade I get. For example, my spear militia wearing HEAVY chain mail (gold armor upgrade) have THREE armor whereas they should have 7.

I tried to edit this in the EDB file but it appears I can't. Changing the armor upgrade level for each smith building just makes it so that building upgrades a different type of armor. For example, I editted the blacksmith building to "armor 5" but now it justs upgrades plate armor one point rather than upgrading padded armor to light mail armor and giving the unit a 5 armor rating.

Is there anything I can do to change this? Or must I rewrite the stats for every darned unit in EDU so as to balance all their stats to armor?

Sorry if I was ranting, and thanks in advance for the help.

**FactionHeir** · 05-29-2008, 21:53

Actually the amount of armor they get is correct, just the display of it on the unit card is wrong.

**TWFanatic** · 05-29-2008, 22:57

Good news! Thank you very much, that puts to rest much of my annoyances.

Since the armor rankings do indeed appear to be scientific, is there a list somewhere of the precise armor bonus each type of upgrade gives?

**FactionHeir** · 05-29-2008, 23:12

Check the Citadel. There should be a thread from 2006 or early 2007 which has it.

**TWFanatic** · 05-30-2008, 03:20

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ighlight=armor

There it is. Good stuff that.

One more question: Is there any way to change those base levels (e.g., increase or decrease the default armor value of a particular type of armor). I would like to see a larger gulf between leather armor and plate.