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Universal Auto Equipment

Automatically equips troops with fitting gear available con stores based on their skills, culture, and party leader status.

Universal Auto Equipment is an automated system that equips all regular troops (non-heroes) based on their culture, skills, and the region they’re in. Instead of assigning gear manually or relying on fixed XML loadouts, lords now shop for equipment in city markets, selecting items from the town's inventory.
Each time a party visits a settlement, there’s a chance their leader will buy new gear for their troops. The quality depends on local shops and how much virtual gold the lord has available.

⚠️ Technical Note: Due to engine limitations, gear is applied to the global template of each troop type, not to individual soldiers. This means:
Troops of the same type across different parties will share the most recently applied equipment.
The system creates a visual illusion of variety by frequently updating templates based on each party's visits.
Individual variation per soldier or per party is not yet supported, due to engine limitations in Bannerlord.


Key Features

🛡️ Contextual gear: Troops are equipped logically based on their role and local availability.
🏛️ Town store logic: Gear comes from the shop inventory, if a faction loses towns, their troops will have less equipment options.
🌍 Cultural immersion: Troops respect their cultural style (no Nordic fur on Aserai).
🔄 Dynamic templates: Troop gear evolves over time depending on movement and access to wealth.
🧠 MCM support: Easily configure behavior, logging, and balance through Mod Configuration Menu.

This mod is especially effective when used alongside gear-heavy mods like EOE Flavour Pack, Anno Domini, Saxonish Armory, OSA or whatever other armory mod you like, giving their huge item libraries actual impact in-game.

Whether you're a casual player or a realism purist, Universal Auto Equipment will give every army in your world a story, one you’ll read through their armor, their scars, and their mismatched helmets.

🧷 Mod compatibility note:
Any custom troop loadouts already defined in XML (e.g. from mods like Enhanced Troops Reforged, etc.) will be respected on first encounter. These original setups are used as a base to generate alternate variants for each lord's army, not overwritten outright. The vanilla flavor of your modded troops is preserved and expanded.

With Universal Auto Equipment, your favorite armory mods finally come to life, not just in your inventory, but on the actual armies marching across Calradia.

Nexus link: https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/8393