LE Orc Stronghold revisions: Armor/weapons maybe chests LORE-friendly idea

[PestMastah]

Here is a simple mod idea for someone.

Simple in idea for the most part with maybe just one catch.

 

 

Summary:

 

I think it's odd how most of the Orc Soldiers in the Orc Strongholds around Skryim do not even use their own Orc weapons and/or armor.

 

The Chiefs sometimes do, such as Yamarz (the one that has to fight the giant), but for the most part they are all decked out in either steel, fur, leather, or something that just ain't "orc gear".

 

LORE: Here these Orcs are, on their own, with their own smelters, grindstones, forges, and sometimes mines for the ore... and yet, they use the same gear as humans do.

This has to be fixed.

 

 

Only Yamarz, has a full set of Orc gear... and I'm not even sure if his weapon is orchish or steel (can't recall at this moment).

 

 

Proposed Mod will do the following:

 

Replace all normal orc warriors (at the strongholds) with full sets of Orc gear. Armor and weapons. Right down to the arrow type. i.e Orchish arrows

 

Some orcs, like the women forgers, priestesses, shamans, or whatever should probably not be changed.

 

Just the soldiers that already have gear on. if it's a soldier with gear, change that stuff to orc gear....

 

Search each member of the stronghold and replace all swords, daggers, axes, bows, arrows, and armor to Orcish made gear.

 

The hard part is, some of the "loot chests" may have to be changed to reflect orc gear too. I think it would be highly unlikely to be able to find any steel or iron weapons or gear at an Orc Stronghold... so why have that kind of loot showing up randomly?

Perhaps a special "orc random loot chest" to replace those present at the stronghold so those chests will only contain orc-related items randomly for those respawnable chests.

 

Furthermore, if an Orc Stronghold has an enchanter (not all do), only those strongholds should have soldiers with the occasional enchantment. Figure out which type of enchantment an Orc is most likely to use rather than random enchantments or something that might put them out of balance (don't want to overdo it).

 

Not sure if there is a light armor for orc armor or not (vanilla-wise)... but I thought there was special gear for Orc Chiefs... like a Chief Helm?

 

Anyways... I think this idea would help make the Orc Strongholds more Lore-friendly and more in place than being out of place.

 

 

Someone could also go further... with the exception of at least one stronghold (that has a mine), selling the other ingredients that is otherwise unatainable at the stronghold would probably be more in demand for a price. i.e iron ore would do well being sold at a stronghold if making the orc gear required an iron ingot to go woth the orchilium ore

 

Anyways... just a thought.