Late General's Bodyguard in Campaign?

[Ashina]

is it true that you can't have them in the late game(Gunpowder Invented, Mongol&Timurid Invasion, New World, Basically all event is played)
if it's true, then my Mod where you can upgrade "Some" of the unit Armor into the next Level(Example, Sergeant Spearman getting the Third Armor Upgrade[Heavy Mail], and Armored Sergeants getting the second armored upgrade(Partial Plate, Although it's not visible)).

Basically, using the Late General Model for the second and third upgrade for the Early General's Bodyguard

[Ashina]

Henceforth it will look less awkward when your General bodyguard armored in partial plate commanding Gendarmes with Advanced Late game plate armor

[Ashur_Arbaces]

It is actually possible to get the general upgrade working again.

All you have to do is add a new culture to the game (not to be confused with a faction) called 'roman' , add this to an already existing faction and add the hidden resource 'italy' to any region you need. If the faction with the culture 'roman' gets a huge city in a region with the hidden resource 'Italy' then the bodyguard units will upgrade. This is essentially making the hardcoded trigger from Rome 1 to upgrade the bodyguards functional again.

The theory behind this is simple but the actual exercise to get a new culture added to the game is a lot of work (get a freeware utility program to rename files in bulk, trust me you will need this). Also prepare for some crashes because you missed a tiny little thing somewhere.

[Inardesco]

Fairly certain they already upgrade when NEW generals arrive.

The generals prior to that era simply dont upgrade due to being two different units in the files. Its not a simple armour upgrade.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Fairly certain they already upgrade when NEW generals arrive.

The generals prior to that era simply dont upgrade due to being two different units in the files. Its not a simple armour upgrade.

Correct

[Gigantus]

Ashur describes the Marius Reform from RTW which can be made to work in M2TW as he says.

Adding a new culture isn't that difficult per se: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=287046
It's actually not files that require renaming\copying but rather their content, eg trait\anc triggers based on cultures as well as EDU and EDB entries. A simple search&replace with a text editor (I prefer Notepad++) operation does the job here in most cases.