The Complete EDU Guide - Discussion

[Makanyane]

[weapon_tech] : Unit weapon's tech type. Can be: simple, other, blade, archery or siege (note that 'other' is not upgradeable).

Other actually is upgradeable it just doesn't show up in building browser. The note that you see that it is not upgradeable is from text entry in strat.txt

{SMT_HEAVY} Heavy
{SMT_NO_UPGRADE} Cannot be upgraded

The 'other' units do actually upgrade, eg if you use:

weapon_other 1

in building you get option to retrain them and their weapon changes to bronze as usual, you just don't get a "Upgrades xxx weapons" on the building description screen saying it's going to do that, which seems to be due to that part being missing from strat.txt as well.

Trying to add {SMT_CAPABILITY_WEAPON_OTHER} etc. to that file seems to have no effect - I assume the lookup for that file is hardcoded.. ?

anyway you can mod EDB so they are upgradeable.