Cant equip blade weapons

[cpirrmann]

Help please. My character is using a steel bow. I cannot use blade weapons though. I can unequip the bow, but when I try to equip blade weapons, I end up with bare fists. My blade weapons ( steel sword, enchanted sword and steel dagger) all show a value in the armor column of the inventory. When I click on them, they end up in the armor tab and when I click on the dagger, I can see it's scabbard appear on my side, but no weapon to hand. When I try to assign the blade weapons to a number, only the steel dagger is successful, the two swords wont assign to a number either. Thanks

[Night[owl]]

Do you use any mods?

In Oblivion Reloaded when one enable dual wielding, weapon like dagger [shift +right mouse button] will be moved into armor instead as it replaces shield which is considered armor and not weapon in original Oblivion.

What you describe sounds like you have something that does the same thing, but lack animation for showing weapon in left hand.

Dagger, sword is one hand weapon. Claymore is two hand weapon if I recall it correctly. Try to equip two hand weapon which isn't bow (as you know that works).

[Teralitha]

Maybe it needs to be repaired?

[ManualMakron]

I think he's missing meshes or something. You should think about verifying the game cache integrity.