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Heavy Variant State Troopers (WITH CAPTAINS)

This mod adjusts the appearance of every Empire infantry unit along with Outriders and adds a captain to all of them (except Outriders). The changes are purely cosmetic

--Spearmen and Crossbowmen are relatively unchanged, though there is more breastplate prevalence

--Spearmen (Shields) and Swordsmen have breastplates and pauldrons, along with armored legs and helmets

--Handgunners have a closed helm and breastplates to make them stand out among lower tier Crossbowmen. Outriders look the same as the Handgunners, except they have the Nuln Repeater

--Halberdiers now have heavy plate (personal preference; no armor value change)

--Greatswords now have heavy plate (without their wonderful hats; personal preference)

Captains do not adjust stats in any way and the entity will act the same as the unit they're attached to. Note that this means they will die just as easily as any other entity in the unit, but every time you start a new battle the unit will have another captain. Each unit has a separate captain appearance, and each of the captains have some variation among them

This mod should be compatible with anything that doesn't change the vanilla stats of Empire infantry, or anything that doesn't change the variantmeshdefinitions for Empire infantry. It's compatible with anything that adds region-specific colors, different shields, etc. (because those edit different tables).

I won't do anything to make this mod compatible with another, but you're welcome to fiddle with the tables yourself. I also won't release any custom changes; if you want all plate everywhere or no plate nowhere you'll have to edit the variantmeshdefinitions

If you want the captains by themselves, simply delete the normal infantry variantmeshdefinitions from this mod (but leave the emp_officer_xxxx variants) and keep the db adjustments, or download the submod below

If you make your own variant feel free to send me a message and I'll put a link in the description here. If I decide to make any other variants I'll post those here as well. Currently no plans to do this with other factions

I've also split it into two smaller mods:

This one only changes infantry armor variants (for fun, turn it on after you research State-Issued Infantry Armor!): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=741485129

This one only adds captains/sergeants (for fun, turn it on after you research State Troop Sergeants!): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=741485936