Armourer

[alman9898]

Armourer
An Armourer increases the quality of armour supplied to all troops trained in a settlement. He is a highly specialist smith who concentrates on producing the armour required by local warriors: shields, scale or ring mail shirts, cuirasses, greaves and helmets. He will have a good supply of metal from local blacksmiths and small-scale foundries, and it is his skill that creates something strong, light, comfortable and capable of deflecting an arrow or sword strike. A good Armourer is prized by any people, and is usually very rewarded for his work. He is usually able to afford a large household of servants, slaves and apprentices.

[some_totalwar_dude]

Thanx, sounds good,

also nice to hear there keeping the old swordsmid armourer system to upgrade your troops.

[Shahed]

Great, Now I finally have a place to make me some decent armor.

[Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe]

Quote[/b] (some_totalwar_dude @ Sep. 03 2003,16:35)]Thanx, sounds good,

also nice to hear there keeping the old swordsmid armourer system to upgrade your troops.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk

I really dislike this system

I feel we are going to buy units by units again, with a patchwork of all kind of equipments, and it's going to be a mess not even remotly close to a normal army composition. I want to buy/ raise an army or a legion, and a legion is what it is. Not a melting pot of whatever is available.

Louis,

[Kraxis]

Louis, that was not what he meant. He meant the old system of free swords but a need for iron to get armour. STW-style.

I don't know, it might be that both types need iron? But I do suspect that all legionaries need an Armourer. They do after all mention the armour of them being mail, and the Armourer also mentions mail.

[some_totalwar_dude]

No, actually I meant the upgrading system

I also rather prefer a armour upgrade without a iron supply than otherwise.

But I would also like to see something new.

[shingenmitch2]

I'm afraid this is the old "bronze" "silver" "gold" armor upgrade system...

bunch of crap if it is and it will make Multiplay balancing impossible. They should have scrapped the swordsmith/blacksmith armor & weapons upgrade system used in the past versions of Tota War.

I would be happy if like a level 1 armorer gets u lightly armed velites, and a level 2armorer, lorica hamata Hastati troops and level 3 lorica segmentata legionaries... or something like that... but I really hope to not see me getting 3 levels of segmentata (bronze, silver and gold)

[Nowake]

why not? Maybe some of it is older, more rusty, the iron is mixed with other metals and so on. Numerous variants.