"Armor" isn't yet implemented, no?
Not fully, though it is something I played with through my modmod (called "My take on stuff") last time I played actively. It is fully functional, though no one has assigned it to units much yet.
They are no longer defensive only, can coexist with barbarians, enter foreign culture with right of passage agreement (or open border agreement) and upgrade in neutral territory. That's the main change to make them more useful.
Sounds interesting. I do hope we're getting MoM type stuff soon-ish, lol. It isn't crucial by any means, but it adds a really nice flavor to the mod.
It's definitely able to be used - I wanted to restrain usage until the equipment stuff becomes a more major component. In the meantime, we could apply it to core but doing so would take a lot of unit evaluation, which I was/am still working on, though I was also still thinking of restricting to either a combat mod of its own or just another advanced benefit of equipment interplay. When prepping for the equipment mod, I built out a lot like this intended to give that mod some meaning and depth other than, this material is better than that. You start assigning this to animals and to units by assumed weapons and it will make it harder to modularize equipment. But it IS a pretty cool concept and all the better that the limited application so far is showing to work pretty well, among a few other other tags meant to work in tandem with it. One thing about armor and puncture is that I realized that it should be resistance and penetration ability BY damage TYPE, not just a raw kinetic damage which sits fine throughout most of the gameplay eras but when you get into more advanced future stuff and energy weaponries and defenses, it gets a lot more complicated - electricity may not give a DANG about steel plated armor for example. So it was pending some possible re-coding as well.
