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Legion vs Stormcloaks: Helgen Keep

This is just a basic mod that fixes a lot of things I found wrong with Helgen and repairs a LOT of issues with the armor that the Stormcloaks and Imperials wear. They were all so bloody weak it made me cry, so I did something about it.

The Stormcloak armor is now as strong as leather armor, and the Stormcloak officer armor is scale quality. I felt that was the best way to go about it without making it too OP. I also made both sets upgradable with smithing perks (steel smithing for the stormcloak, advanced armors for the officer). I also made a craftable stormcloak circlet and helmet (identical in looks to the hide helmet), mainly because the actual stormcloak helmet is all but impossible to get in the game without console commands or letting some poor NPC bite it.

The imperial armor went through very similar changes. Light Armor is equal to leather, with the studded chestpiece being a couple points higher, and the steel armor is now literally, steel quality. It never made sense to me why it was only iron level. I also made craftable matching circlets for both as well and all of it is upgradable with the steel smithing perk.

The final thing I did was add a LOT to Helgen, more specifically the poor dead guy on the Stormcloak side and the chests in the Imperial barracks. For Gunjar I added a copy of my circlet and gloves to go with the rest of the gear as well as upgrading his axe to steel. I also added a chest with a set of steel armor, a sword, hunting bow with some steel arrows, and 3 two handed weapons, one of each type. I also stuck 10k gold in there as well. As for the chests in the barracks (which stormcloaks can get to by going into the room the captain comes out of) there is a set of heavy armor in warden's chest now, as well as a circlet, shield, bow and steel arrows. I also added another 10k gold as well. The plain chest by the bed now contains a full light armor set complete with shield and circlet, The iron swords on the wall have also been replaced with Imperial ones. Sorry, but that made NO sense to me. It was an imperial fort? why there was there no imperial gear?!

Finally I upgraded the potions you have to loot. I would expect an Imperial fort to have some better ones so I added better. Besides, there are plenty of the little ones scattered throughtout the keep anyway so there you go.

No DLC used, but I doubt there's anyone out there anymore who doesn't have all the DLC anyway so it's kinda moot.