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Ah, okay - thanks for the quick response!

Each mercenary unit comes with its traits and abilities fully unlocked as though you had researched its faction's tech for the particular units.

Hi, I assume these mercenaries do not get the benefits of faction tech upgrades? So they would lag behind your own peer troops?

Update:
- Added Drukhari Incubi and Scourge as additional mercenary units

Unfortunately the way Gladius models work, each model can only use its own animations. If you try to have it use another model's animations it will simply crash. You also need to match weapons to a model's "bones". Some Gladius models allow the swapping out of weapons as separate models, but many have the "weapon" model fused to the model. You can have weapon effects fire from existing muzzle bones on a model though, but you need to have it use the correct muzzlebone or it will also crash :P It's beyond my own capability to alter Gladius models or make new models, but some other people might be able to. In fact I think some people are already looking into touching up some existing models with better animations on the Gladius Discord.

Thanks for your reply Shinzou. I appreciate it.

I don't mind the animations as much as the model's aesthetic. Using the Spiritseer's animations for the Warlocks abilities would look good anyway.

Thanks again.

I've submitted your request to the Gladius official Discord modding section (feel free to do so yourself for any future mod requests unrelated to a particular Steam Workshop mod).

I might look into making a small mod for it myself in the future, but I'm sure anyone else could do it. It will mostly involve using a .txt editor like Notepad++ to change the unit model, textures and animations of the Data/World/Units/Eldar/Warlock.xml to that of the Spiritseer's... bare in mind, the Warlock weapons and attack animations might possibly not have an equivalent to the Spiritseer's. You'd need to match the model's bones up too.

Hi Shinzou

I'm wondering if you have a way of making a mod to replace the Eldar Warlock models with the Spiritseer models i.e. making all models in the Warlock unit look like the Spiritseer model in game?

It has been a frustrating thing for me in game, where the Warlocks were one of the best units in Dawn of War for me, but in Gladius, although they are fun and strong, it saddens me to see their model looking so unrefined and lacking the elegance that the Eldar deserve. If you, or anyone else you know in the modding community can make this happen, I would be most grateful.

Thank you

@absolem here's a patch to bring the mercenary units into scale with Loren's Revived Gladius+:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2943445876

@Rustydrummer thanks! :)

@absolem the units in this mod are based off vanilla unit scale, so probably not. I might create a patch to bring it inline with Gladius+, but we'll see.