Thanks for knocking this out Patrrotmath.

waiting for the SW compatibility.

Playing only that lately.

Oh that's kind of neat, using multi slot to prevent it upgrading into other mainstream items. But how are you preventing the archers from upgrading to the best vambraces? (or is that intentional?)

Also, you might want to reconsider the light plate pieces for militia, the weight might end up hurting them more than it helps.

Actually I'm not using multi-slot to to prevent it upgrading with the mainstream items... althought that would have been an easier solution than what I did...I actual produced another sub-model called AmarianMale_Militia (similar to the Henchman stuff) and a seperate model AmarianMale_MilitiaArcher. I created new vambraces that only supports this archer model and that is how I originally intended doing this. Maybe I should allow it to upgrade to chainmail / lightplate vambraces.

If somebody so wishes they can start off the Militia with rusty greaves leather chestpiece and build hodgepodge militia as you move through the warfare techtree. I leave that to another days project, but I'm happy with the results.

I could just lower the weight of these armors and it wouldn't change anything. I didn't know what the encumberance of militia so I it was a guess at the moment.

I had actually thought of this earlier but not in this way.  This method would allow a way of limiting certain items to only work with different units to create a sort of unit specializations table so that only certain equipment would be viable with certain units.  In other words create classes for units based upon, as the way you put it, a sub-model.  So you could then make a mage unit that can only use staves and potentially the adept skills, or a light skirmisher that has a low weight capacity but higher attack, or pikemen that can dare I say it only use long spears, or any other specialized class types.  I might dive down this road eventually but I still have a lot to do with the armor mod.  That and maybe Stardock will think of another way to do this before we go about it this way.  Great ideas all around.

So basically you would have to make a custom art setup for each faction type and then a custom unit for each type and then add a custom armor for each type.  Sooo 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 different actions for each tier of armor with 3 tiers that makes it 81 items to make.  Unless I am utterly mistaken then just ignore this to much math on the mind.

Thats exactly where I got the idea I had from was looking through your female henchmen mod, though shouldn't it be maybe henchperson hehe jk.  Still its a brilliant way of limiting items for units.

Also something I also thought about is that you could also make a single unit like a militia commander.  It would auto-summon your militia at the begining of combat.  The spell upgrades as tech is researched or replace the commander as techs upgrade so that he summons the appropriate amount of units when used.  You would have to make a bunch of custom units this way but it has a unique benefit of allowing you to have more than 9 units on the battlefield for city defense.  Not sure how much additional coding this would take or if it is even possible.

Yeah, that's why I do and it would be so cool if Heavenfall would boost militia and archers number too. With my buffed number of city defences, the AI cities don't fall as fast, they can cope with a player hero that is not godlike in power, which I feel is good. Having a full AI empire falls from a single player hero is silly, imho (unless you want to discard units as being useful).

Are militias in vanilla game also upgrading to magic weapons? Do you prevent that in  your mod Parrotmath?

Good job, Parrottmath..

Thanks! I hope Stardock jumps on that train for Vanilla FE.

BTW, is it possible to do some calculations on city defenders? I would love to see each city, fortress and enclave grant an particular (non linear) amount of defenders per level and then have that stack distributed over all settlements. This could help balancing city spam vs. less (but faster/higher developed) cities, especially if the growth penalty would be tweaked accordingly.

City spam problem can be solved by adding the population cost to pioneers to be something like 10 or 20 so that a level 1 city will not be able to spam pioneers.  The other problem for city spam on the AI part is that currently there is a but that Pioneers either don't despawn after settling or they instant rush another pioneer at the new city.

Armored Militia is now stormworld compatible... I didn't test it in stormworld, but everything should work out. Let me know if I made an error somewhere.