How to equip companions with gear in other parties?

[Schwapping mags]

I know you can equip companions in your OWN party by going to the inventory and change to the companion by clicking the arrows at the top. But you can't do this to companions in separate parties. Anyone knows how?

[craigroaring]

I'd also like to know this. The only way I've managed to do it was do disband my companions party (take their troops first) and then get them to rejoin my party. After equiping them I recreate their party. A bit of screwing around but it works.

[The Lord of Ebola]

i tried doing what you suggested @cragroaring however my last companion got glitched and just said "HOLDING" under the location of where they were and there was no way i could interact with them further. i was outside of a city though and so was my companion was that the issues? lol

Update - turns out you just need to disband it inside of a city or castle, it helps if you own the castle as you can store your troops in the garrison if both you and your companions party are mostly full of troops that way theres no loss.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by The Lord of Ebola:

i tried doing what you suggested @cragroaring however my last companion got glitched and just said "HOLDING" under the location of where they were and there was no way i could interact with them further. i was outside of a city though and so was my companion was that the issues? lol

I think sometimes it just bugs out. They're supposed to go to a city and wait there when their party gets disbanded. Sometimes it can take a few days.

Only way right now to equip them is to disband the party unfortunately. They really should add a way to do it when you talk to them like how you check their troops. Same for spending their attribute and focus points when they level up. Currently no way to do that without disbanding either.

[Morkonan]

There are whole categories of cross-party interaction dialogues that aren't in the game, yet. Because we have the ability to create Companion Groups, we should have the ability to cross-party equip them.

Cross-Army interactions need to be in there, too. And, intra-Army communications is non-existent.

There's a boatload of standard Warband dialogues yet to be included, IMO. And, there's a ton of new ones needed, especially for Companion Groups. I think everyone wants to be able to tell a Companion to take their group and "Patrol around ___." Otherwise, they're little suicide machines unless you cheese them to get Leadership points by making an Army with them. (I refuse to do that because it's friggin' stoopid... "Hey Bob, let's go play Army Mans!" :/ )