Trick: How to get different visual variation within an unit

[Myrddraal]

From a screenshot I concluded that the head part was skinned to both the head and torso bone.

I think so too. They may just have a skin modifier on each mesh, which means you can use any bone you like...

[Myrddraal]

Oh and btw:

• Improved individual units with different faces, clothing, armor and shields, swinging different weapons and riding various horses.

(bold added by me)

[shifty157]

Yeah its already been mentioned by CA that shield and weapon meshes will be in seperate files and will then be attached to units via a text file. I believe they said that each unit can reference up to 10 different weapons and shields.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

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[Sundjata Keita]

I think so too. They may just have a skin modifier on each mesh, which means you can use any bone you like...

Just going back to this point. Don't forget that the head bone itself is a child of the torso bone and eventually needs to be connected to the scene root or it would just act independantly. For this reason I would expect the full skeletal structure would apply to the head but this doesn't mean that the whole skeleton will be included in the file for the head.