Ground Unit Armor

[ranger044 (OP)]

So I get how racial armor is calculated and I rather like the system, but is there a way to lower it? I'm doing an RP play through and I wanted to make some slave/prisoner battalions that I can mass produce.  I wanted them to be basically naked with bombs strapped to them lol.  Do I just need to make designs well in advance while my tech is low? Or can I lower their armor rating somehow?

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[Froggiest1982]

So I get how racial armor is calculated and I rather like the system, but is there a way to lower it? I'm doing an RP play through and I wanted to make some slave/prisoner battalions that I can mass produce.  I wanted them to be basically naked with bombs strapped to them lol.  Do I just need to make designs well in advance while my tech is low? Or can I lower their armor rating somehow?

First post on the forum, please direct me to better places to post this if I'm messing up

I am not 100% sure, however, the ground design retains the specs of the original designs which is causing a lot of grief to many people which would like to be able updating all designs without actually create new units.

So if you do have created a unit with lower level of armour every time you are producing that unit it should be produced with that tech; if you do instead design exactly the same unit after have discovered the upgraded armour tech you'll end up with the upgraded armour.

[ranger044 (OP)]

I am not 100% sure, however, the ground design retains the specs of the original designs which is causing a lot of grief to many people which would like to be able updating all designs without actually create new units.

So if you do have created a unit with lower level of armour every time you are producing that unit it should be produced with that tech; if you do instead design exactly the same unit after have discovered the upgraded armour tech you'll end up with the upgraded armour. 

Thanks for the quick reply, I actually don't mind having to research the new stuff everything I tech up.  It makes sense to me, the US is still using Vietnam era squad automatic weapons after all.  If it ain't broke don't fix it is the way I look at it. 

I was just hoping for a way to manually lower the values.  I'll just make a template for slaves in advance "in case" my empire decided to *ahem* volunteer some xenos.

[Dutchling]

While you cannot intentionally design worse units than your tech allows, you can build forced labour camps to make use of xenos.

[Froggiest1982]

I am not 100% sure, however, the ground design retains the specs of the original designs which is causing a lot of grief to many people which would like to be able updating all designs without actually create new units.

So if you do have created a unit with lower level of armour every time you are producing that unit it should be produced with that tech; if you do instead design exactly the same unit after have discovered the upgraded armour tech you'll end up with the upgraded armour. 

Thanks for the quick reply, I actually don't mind having to research the new stuff everything I tech up.  It makes sense to me, the US is still using Vietnam era squad automatic weapons after all.  If it ain't broke don't fix it is the way I look at it. 

I was just hoping for a way to manually lower the values.  I'll just make a template for slaves in advance "in case" my empire decided to *ahem* volunteer some xenos.

That u cannot do currently

[QuakeIV]

As a side note, I had been assuming that it auto-updated itself with new tech and that there was no point in putting out new designs.  I actually kindof like the idea of rolling out periodic upgraded units and will do so in the future.

[Garfunkel]

Your only option is to create the unit and formation templates at game start - you'll also have to do conventional start without researching any of the improved conventional armors. Then you can keep building those templates and their armour will always be 2 which is the minimum. It's still not exactly naked but you can RP it that way.

[Dawa1147]

Îf you are willing to play around with SM mode (backup your saves!), you can undo research you did (research tab, view completed projekts, delete weapon/armor tech). Then design the ground units wich SHOULD have the new lower armor values. Once you have your units designed, you SM back the research projects you already completed.