A Question on Equipment

[Taqwus]

Try a Black Lord prophet with a Star of Heroes or other decent early weapon. Good head-bashing.
One note: mounted commanders do not incur regular encumberance from armor, if memory serves, but spellcasting encumberance always includes double armor encumberance regardless of mount. Don't make your mage wear Monolith Armor unless you can somehow deal with huge amounts of fatigue. You also can't give tower shields (including the Crystal Shield, if memory serves) to mounted troops.

[rabelais]

Originally posted by General Tacticus:


Or you can give him a missile weapon, so he stays away from the front lines, where bad accidents are known to occur even to Ulmian leaders, and he still has his halberd should anyone come too close. In the same way, knights keep their lance (and hoof) even if you change the rest of the weapons.

There appear to be exceptions to this. Notably Vampire Queen's "Life drain" which is supplanted by any weapon. I think this should be considered a bug, but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts.

I once lost my weaponless VQ SC to an undead summons, because she had no way to deal with her ilk. But if you give her a sword, she can't heal fatigue, so her spell casting is limited ----> fatal.

Rabe