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    Default Spanish Gendarmes false-advertizement

    hello, I'm posting here because I was annoying to find out the Spanish Gendarmes' horses are only plate mailed on the unit card, I for one have a strange attraction to the shiny plate mail, and therefore like plate mailed units.. so I was deeply dissapointed to find out this was false-advertizement, has anyone else noticed this?
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    Default Re: Spanish Gendarmes false-advertizement

    Well you could mod it so that gendarmes had plate armored horses. Go to mod section to find out how
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    Hmm there's something strange here : the gendarmes are shown with plate on the icon and unit card, but chainmail on the description scroll and the real model. Must be some sort of communication failure in the developer team.

    If it's only the looks you care about, go fall in love with the French lancers, those guys are proper tin cans

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    I never built them because of the cost vs stats. Knights of Santiago forever!

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    Default Re: Spanish Gendarmes false-advertizement

    Just to let you know, conquistadors also show the same ad-failure, on their card the rider is wearing renaissance style plate but a full ug conquistador only has partial plate.
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    -Thesaurus is not a species of dinosaur.
    -Potassium is not found in potatoes.
    -Its Naples, not Nipples.
    -All roads certainly do not lead to Rome. Does your state highway link you to it?
    - Dog is God spelled backwards but praying to dogs is a bit stupid.
    - Fart is Hydrogen Sulfide with methane and oxygen and is indeed flammable.
    - Igniting a fart is painful.

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    Anyone got a simple way to fix it? I was going to play the Spanish next :(

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    Conquistadors can have their armour upgraded, can't they? I don't think that any unit has the non-Lancer non-Gothic Renaissance plate armour by default.

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    Barding never gets upgraded by armor upgrades. Only the rider's armor changes.

    Barding is a function of what type of mount the unit is riding. It's quite simple to change.

    In the "export_descr_unit.txt" file, (I'm not going to explain how to unpack files, here.) search for the unit you want to change. Look for the "mount" line. The types of horse are...

    fast pony
    pony
    camel
    heavy horse
    barded horse
    mailed horse
    eastern armored horse
    armored horse

    Change that line to the one you want. (Probably "armored horse").

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    Default Re: Spanish Gendarmes false-advertizement

    So if I put "camel" in there I'd get Gendarmes riding camels?
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    Default Re: Spanish Gendarmes false-advertizement

    With respect to the conquistadors, I believe the issue was the rider's armour, not the horse's.

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